Following a six-hour trip from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, were welcomed aboard the International Space Station by Commander Barry Wilmore, of NASA and the rest of […]
You, plus “NASA at Home” equals a universe of possibilities, the first delivery service selected for our lunar Gateway, and an astronaut added to a future Commercial Crew flight … 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 […]
Currently, live views from the International Space Station (ISS) are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node […]
Earth’s surface temperatures in 2017 were the second warmest since since 1880, when global estimates first become feasible, NASA scientists found. News release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/long-term-warming-trend-continued-in-2017-nasa-noaa Global temperatures in 2017 were second only to 2016, which still holds the record for the hottest year; however, 2017 was the warmest year on record that did not start with […]
Pizza delivery to the International Space Station! Our Expedition 53 crew had a blast channeling our inner chef by building tasty pizzas for movie night. Whose pizza looks the tastiest? What’s it like to make pizza in space? Team skills come in handy when your food floats. FOLLOW RANDY BRESNIK! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AstroKomrade/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AstroKomrade Instagram: […]
Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Harvey during a flyover of the massive storm at 5:15 p.m. EDT Aug. 25. This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/#/details-NHQ_2017_0825_Space%20Station%20Cameras%20Peer%20down%20on%20Major%20Hurricane%20Harvey.html
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA honored America’s 243rd birthday by wishing Americans at home and around the world a happy 4th of July. Learn more about the research on board our orbiting laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
NASA Langley – 100 Years: Something happened 100 years ago that changed forever the way we fly, the way we explore space and how we study our home planet. That something was the establishment of what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, which commemorates its 100th anniversary on July 17, 2017. Astronaut […]
The early life and professional career of American astronaut John Glenn. Several of the people who knew him “back when” in New Concord, Ohio take up a certain amount of time reminiscing on Glenn’s boyhood and then segues into the astronaut’s preparations for his space flight — three orbits around the earth, and then home […]
