The International Space Station is the largest human-made structure in low Earth orbit (LEO) and serves as a space environment research laboratory where astronauts perform experiments in several unique fields including physics, astronomy, and biology. NASA’s Genelab collects valuable spaceflight experiment data for researchers and scientists to learn from this unique environment. GeneLab is an […]
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A recap of the pre-launch and launch activities of the Expedition 43 crew at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 27 U.S. time (March 28, Kazakh time), as well as post-launch observations about the crew’s mission to the International Space Station. Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal […]
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo ship, dubbed the “SS Alan Poindexter”, was released from the International Space Station’s robotic arm Nov. 21, bound for a destructive entry over the Pacific Ocean after delivering some three tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the orbital outpost. Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA released Cygnus with the […]
Building on Apollo 11 for the Next Giant Leap This month, our nation will mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon – a remarkable American accomplishment and a “giant leap” for humankind. Today, at NASA, we’re working on the next giant leap – a human mission to Mars, standing on […]
The first day of activities for NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, kicked off on April 8 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Almost 80 teams from the United States, Italy, Germany, India, Mexico, Colombia and Russia, as well as Puerto Rico, are scheduled to compete in the event. The two-day […]
The reins of command of the International Space Station were passed from NASA’s Peggy Whitson to Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) during a ceremony on the orbital outpost June 1. Although Whitson is remaining on the station as an Expedition 52 crew member, Yurchikhin will serve as Expedition 52 commander until […]
After making the 240,000-mile journey to the moon cruising through open space, the last 300 feet down to landing represented the most difficult and dangerous part of the Apollo missions. The Apollo astronauts needed a way to practice that final descent and landing before Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made the […]
Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency along with their backups, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Jack Fischer of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star […]
Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer of NASA were greeted in a traditional ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan Sept. 3, a few hours after landing in their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft in Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan. After the ceremony, the crew split up, […]
From launch to landing, space shuttle Discovery’s final flight, a 13-day journey to the International Space Station, is featured in this compilation of mission highlights.