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New Horizons Mission Update – July 14, 2015 (Evening)

NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a status update of the spacecraft and its suite of instruments during New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto on July 14. The news briefing was broadcast from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission […]

NASA Uncovering the Secrets of Asteroids

NASA scientists discussed asteroids, how they relate to the origins of our solar system, and the search for life beyond Earth during this Sept. 7 event at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The event was held in conjunction with other pre-launch activities related to the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith […]

Moon Phases 2018 – Northern Hemisphere – 4K

This 4K visualization shows the Moon’s phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2018, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Two ‘supermoons’ will ring in the New Year on Jan. 1, 2018 and Jan. 31, 2018. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the moon’s orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, distance […]

Welcome to NASA

A visual highlight of the people involved in the innovative technologies developed and under development, as well as the scientific discoveries made as NASA explores and studies our changing Earth and our universe, and continues to make advancements in green, next-generation air travel.

WISE L-20 News Conference

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA’s newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, its last stop before launching into space to survey the entire sky in infrared light. Wise is scheduled to launch no earlier than […]

Hurricane Michael from Space on October 10

Cameras outside the International Space Station capture views of Hurricane Michael at 12:58 p.m. EDT Oct. 10 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm makes landfall as a major hurricane over the Florida panhandle. Download: https://go.nasa.gov/2yeePqK

Big Test to Qualify Most Powerful Rocket Booster for Flight

NASA tested the largest, most powerful booster ever built for flight for the agency’s new rocket, the Space Launch System(SLS) on June 28 at Orbital ATK Aerospace System’s test facility in Promontory, Utah. SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft will launch astronauts on missions to explore multiple destinations on the journey to Mars. This was the […]

NASA STS-129 Mission Highlights

Astronaut Nicole Stott returned to Earth aboard shuttle Atlantis on Nov. 27 after 91 days in space. She had spent 87 days aboard the International Space Station and 80 days as an Expedition 20/21 flight engineer. She is the last astronaut who will be transported to or from the space station by a space shuttle. […]

NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Al Worden

NASA astronaut Al Worden has died at the age of 88. Worden served as command module pilot for Apollo 15 with Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. During the mission Worden became the first human to carry out a deep space walk. He logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, “Endeavour.” During 1972-1973, […]

The Next Space Station Crew Trains for Launch on This Week @NASA – March 13, 2020

The next space station crew trains for launch, a SpaceX Dragon delivers more science, and celebrating the life of Katherine Johnson … 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_2020_0313_The%20Next%20Space%20Station%20Crew%20Trains%20for%20Launch%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20March%2013,%202020