January 31 brings a lunar trifecta: the super blue blood Moon! Starting at 5:30 a.m. Eastern, NASA TV will offer a livestream of the Moon. This full moon is the third in a series of “supermoons,” when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit — known as perigee — and about 14 percent […]
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NASA’s Chief Scientist, Jim Green, talks with some of the world’s top lunar experts. Listen: https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist Subscribe: https://go.nasa.gov/30Hfpd1 What’s so special about our Moon? This season of Gravity Assist dives into the Moon’s history and mysteries, as well as NASA’s plans to send astronauts there by 2024. New episodes on Thursdays.
NASA’s Chief Scientist, Jim Green, talks with some of the world’s top lunar experts. Listen: https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist Subscribe: https://go.nasa.gov/30Hfpd1 What’s so special about our Moon? This season of Gravity Assist dives into the Moon’s history and mysteries, as well as NASA’s plans to send astronauts there by 2024. New episodes on Thursdays.
Accelerating a human return to the Moon, wrapping up testing of our Space Launch System rocket engines, and Curiosity captures eclipses on Mars … 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_0405_Discussing%20our%20Accelerated%20Return%20of%20Humans%20to%20the%20Moon%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20April%205,%202019.html
Investigations studying fire safety, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with additional scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/36DM9G3
Investigations studying fire safety, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with additional scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/36DM9G3
A look at the first day of the final flight of space shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 4:50 p.m. EST Thursday to deliver a new module and critical supplies to the International Space Station. The STS-133 mission is delivering the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM), a facility created from the […]
Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Along the way, McCoy highlights the […]
Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Along the way, McCoy highlights the […]
After accepting command of the International Space Station on June 17 from fellow NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, Jeff Williams said farewell to Kopra and his Expedition 47 crewmates, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency). The departing crew then climbed into their Soyuz spacecraft for the trip back to Earth. […]