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New Horizons science update on This Week @NASA – July 24, 2015

A July 24 update at NASA headquarters, featured new surprising imagery and science results from the recent flyby of Pluto, by the New Horizons spacecraft. These included an image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or (LORRI) – looking back at Pluto – hours after the historic flyby that revealed a haze in the planet’s […]

The first uncrewed Commercial Crew Flight Test is complete on This Week @NASA – March 8, 2019

The first uncrewed Commercial Crew Flight Test is complete, Vice President Pence calls the space station, and the station’s next crew prepares for launch … 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_0308_The%20first%20uncrewed%20Commercial%20Crew%20Flight%20Test%20is%20complete%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20March%208,%202019.html

NASA Explorers S3 E1: Seeing Through Smoke

To understand fires on Earth, you need a broad view — spanning from the poles to the equator and looking from high above the planet to down deep under the soil. That’s where #NASAExplorers come in! With satellites, with airplanes, with their own hands and with a data record spanning decades, Explorers are studying how […]

Kepler – A Search for Habitable Planets

“Kepler is a critical component in NASA’s broader efforts to ultimately find and study planets where Earth-like conditions may be present,” said Jon Morse, the Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “The planetary census Kepler takes will be very important for understanding the frequency of Earth-size planets in our galaxy and planning future […]

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Report — February 14, 2014

A NASA Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 1:31:45 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6, 2012 which includes the 13.8 minutes needed for confirmation of the touchdown to be radioed to […]

Hot Fire! Orion Spacecraft Service Module Completes Critical Propulsion Test

Volume up: On Aug. 5, 2019, we put our Orion spacecraft’s propulsion system to the test! Watch the auxiliary and main engines fire up, simulating a challenging mission scenario: boosting Orion into a temporary orbit. This test helps ensure the safety of astronauts on #Artemis missions to the Moon. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2YoBboq

Crew Safe After Soyuz Launch Abort

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are in good condition following an aborted launch of their Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, October 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian […]

Unique Video Shows Shuttle Endeavour at ISS

Newly released video shows the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex over the last decade. The video was shot by European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that undocked from the station on May 23. He, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and NASA […]

NASA Astronauts Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing On Board the Space Station

NASA Astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague join the world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing — only, they do it from around …

Hadfield Chats with Hadfield School Students Back Home

Expedition 35 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield talks with students at the Chris Hadfield School named for him in his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario.