From low earth orbit aboard the ISS, Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Cady Coleman discuss their daily life in space with Oregon students gathered at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. Interesting experiments and other day-to-day activities are discussed during the in-flight educational event on January 19, 2011.
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The story of the first Moon landing in July 1969. Depicts the principal events of the mission, from the launching through the post recovery activities of astronauts …
Headquarters hosted an agencywide town hall with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday, April 1, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. NASA HQ employees were …
After an almost five-year journey to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully settled into orbit around our solar system’s largest planet on July 4 – giving …
A new cooling system for a device on the space station, first results from the first spacecraft to touch the Sun, and preparing Orion for some critical testing … a …
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) HTV-4 Transfer Vehicle launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. Once there, the HTV-4 will deliver 3.6 tons of dry cargo, water, experiments and spare parts to the International Space Station. Unlike a Russian Progress vehicle which docks automatically, the […]
At 8:10 a.m. Eastern time, Sept. 10, cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Florence. NASA satellites track the storm: https://go.nasa.gov/2CEmDGQ | Download video: https://go.nasa.gov/2Ql555y Florence is moving in a westerly direction across the Atlantic, headed for a likely landfall along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. late Thursday or early Friday. […]
Eight astronaut candidates who arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston this week to begin training participated in a news conference with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday, Aug. 20. The candidates were selected come from the second largest pool of applicants NASA has ever received — more than 6,000. During the next two […]
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6 after logging 328 days in space – the longest spaceflight in history by a woman. Hear from the inspirational astronaut in a post flight news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 12 from our Johnson Space Center in Houston.
A room with Earth views! NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold captured this spectacular view from the International Space Station, starting above San Francisco and moving southward through the Americas. Space Station news: https://go.nasa.gov/1DbzULl Follow Ricky Arnold: https://twitter.com/astro_ricky Each day, the station completes 16 orbits of our home planet as the six humans living and working aboard […]