For the first time, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft reveals changing conditions at the edge of our solar system. The heliosphere changes size through the solar cycle, which affects the number of cosmic rays that reach Earth. Scientists now have a better understanding of the dynamic nature of our home in the galaxy.
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A welcoming ceremony was held at Los Angeles International Airport for the arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour following its arrival there mounted atop NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). In October, Endeavour will move to the California Science Center to begin a new mission inspiring future explorers.
The new Cold Atom Lab (CAL) facility is among the cargo launching to the International Space Station on the Orbital ATK CRS-9 mission. The Cold Atom Lab could help answer some big questions in modern physics. CAL produces clouds of atoms that are ten billion times colder than deep space. The facility uses lasers and […]
A boost in the right direction for Artemis, closing in on the launch of our next Mars rover, and the latest progress in our quest for quiet supersonic 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 […]
Russian Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Nov. 9, installing and replacing experiments and hardware and displaying the Olympic torch that will light the Olympic flame in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 7, 2014, during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. The torch was delivered to the […]
NASA Television provided live coverage of the Jan. 24 funeral service at Houston’s St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, celebrating the life and legacy of NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Eugene A. Cernan. The former Gemini and Apollo astronaut died Jan. 16 at the age of 82. Cernan left his mark on the history of exploration […]
On Sept. 22, the new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility was officially opened at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Johnson, who is now 99 years old, worked as a “human computer” at Langley in the 1960’s, calculating trajectories for America’s first spaceflights. The new 37,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility will be used for innovative […]
A small piece of Cosmos 2251 satellite debris safely passed by the International Space Station at 2:38a.m. EDT, Saturday March 24 allowing the six Expedition 30 crew members onboard the orbiting complex to exit their Soyuz spacecraft and resume normal activities. The crew sheltered in the two Soyuz spacecraft as a precaution, the third time […]
To mark International Asteroid Day on June 30, we aired a special television program with information about the work our Planetary Defense Coordination Office and other NASA-funded programs do to find, track and characterize Near Earth Objects. These are asteroids and comets in the vicinity of Earth’s orbit that could pose an impact threat to […]
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency along with their backups, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Jack Fischer of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency participated in their final fit checks […]