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#EZScience Episode 2: The Search for New Planets

Let’s talk about science! Watch the second episode of our #EZScience series to learn about our search for new planets using the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, James Webb Space Telescope and more! ABOUT THE SERIES: In our #EZScience video series with the National Air and Space Museum, NASA’s associate administrator for […]

NASA Administrator Bridenstine Chats with Elon Musk of SpaceX

On the latest Watch this Space, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine chats with SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk during a tour of Launch Complex 39A just before the Demo-1 launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The historic Demo-1 mission launched at 2:49 a.m. EDT on Saturday, March 2 and was the first […]

Parker Solar Probe Countdown to T-Zero in 4K: Flying Faster, Hotter and Closer Than Ever to the Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and its United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle prepare for an unprecedented mission to “kiss the Sun.” NASA launch …

“Welcome Back!” Discovery Lands Safely at Kennedy

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a two-week journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a Tuesday morning landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Returning to Earth aboard the orbiter were STS-131 Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger and Naoko […]

"Welcome Back!" Discovery Lands Safely at Kennedy

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a two-week journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a Tuesday morning landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Returning to Earth aboard the orbiter were STS-131 Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, and Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger and Naoko […]

Shuttle’s Toilet Requires Special Training

Mike Massimino helps answer the one question he and other astronauts get asked most often: “How do you ‘go’ in space?” Mike catches up with STS-132 …

Shuttle's Toilet Requires Special Training

Mike Massimino helps answer the one question he and other astronauts get asked most often: “How do you ‘go’ in space?” Mike catches up with STS-132 …