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Exploring Europa – Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System

Where is the best place to find living life beyond Earth? It may be a small, ice-covered moon of Jupiter or Saturn that harbors some of the most habitable real estate in our Solar System. Life loves liquid water and these moons have lots of it! Dr.Kevin Hand, Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System Exploration […]

Jan. 31, 2018 Super Blue Blood Moon and Lunar Eclipse

January 31 brings a lunar trifecta: the super blue blood Moon! Starting at 5:30 a.m. Eastern, NASA TV will offer a livestream of the Moon. This full moon is the third in a series of “supermoons,” when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit — known as perigee — and about 14 percent […]

NASA’s Gravity Assist Podcast Goes to the Moon

NASA’s Chief Scientist, Jim Green, talks with some of the world’s top lunar experts. Listen: https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist Subscribe: https://go.nasa.gov/30Hfpd1 What’s so special about our Moon? This season of Gravity Assist dives into the Moon’s history and mysteries, as well as NASA’s plans to send astronauts there by 2024. New episodes on Thursdays.

NASA's Gravity Assist Podcast Goes to the Moon

NASA’s Chief Scientist, Jim Green, talks with some of the world’s top lunar experts. Listen: https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist Subscribe: https://go.nasa.gov/30Hfpd1 What’s so special about our Moon? This season of Gravity Assist dives into the Moon’s history and mysteries, as well as NASA’s plans to send astronauts there by 2024. New episodes on Thursdays.

Discussing our Accelerated Return of Humans to the Moon on This Week @NASA – April 5, 2019

Accelerating a human return to the Moon, wrapping up testing of our Space Launch System rocket engines, and Curiosity captures eclipses on Mars … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2019_0405_Discussing%20our%20Accelerated%20Return%20of%20Humans%20to%20the%20Moon%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20April%205,%202019.html

Northrop Grumman’s CRS-13 Mission to the International Space Station: What’s on Board

Investigations studying fire safety, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with additional scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/36DM9G3

Northrop Grumman's CRS-13 Mission to the International Space Station: What's on Board

Investigations studying fire safety, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with additional scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/36DM9G3

STS-133 Flight Day 1 Highlights

A look at the first day of the final flight of space shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 4:50 p.m. EST Thursday to deliver a new module and critical supplies to the International Space Station. The STS-133 mission is delivering the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM), a facility created from the […]

Inside NASA’s Psyche Mission to Study a Metallic Asteroid

Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Along the way, McCoy highlights the […]

Inside NASA's Psyche Mission to Study a Metallic Asteroid

Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Along the way, McCoy highlights the […]