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Armstrong Recalls History-Making Career

The first man on the moon discusses his career as a test pilot and NASA astronaut during his participation in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s annual John Glenn Lecture Series on July 19, 2009,

Time-lapse Earth Flyover from NASA Astronaut in Space

This time-lapse video taken by NASA astronaut Nick Hague squeezes a 30-minute International Space Station trip over a cloudy Earth into 60 seconds, covering the Pacific to the Atlantic. Learn more about the orbiting laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Astronauts Christina Koch, Luca Parmitano and Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov Return Home from Space

Three space travelers including record-setting astronaut Christina Koch return home from the International Space Station. Christina Koch wrapped up a 328-day extended mission on her first spaceflight, having spent more time in space on a single mission than any other woman. Koch, along with station Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency), and Soyuz […]

Space Station Crew Conducts Milestone Spacewalk

Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA conducted a spacewalk May 12 to …

The First Artemis Flight Path Around the Moon

Our Artemis program will return humans to the Moon by 2024. Artemis I, the first Artemis mission, will test all of the human rated systems in deep space …

SpaceX, NASA Managers Discuss Vehicle Mishap Following CRS-7 Launch

During a post-launch press conference on June 28, mangers from SpaceX and NASA discuss the mishap following the liftoff of the SpaceX CRS-7 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission was to deliver supplies, hardware and other important cargo to the International Space Station. SpaceX is leading the […]

Astronauts Assigned to First Commercial Crew Flights on This Week @NASA – August 3, 2018

Astronauts named to the first commercial crew flights, using Earth science data to benefit society, and California wildfires seen from space … a few of the stories …

NASA’s Spitzer Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around a Single Star

NASA held a news conference Feb. 22 at the agency’s headquarters to discuss the finding by the Spitzer Space Telescope of seven Earth-sized planets around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star. Three of these planets are in the habitable zone, the region around the star in which liquid water is most likely to thrive on […]