The space station’s newest crew members are safely onboard, our first asteroid sample return mission arrives at its destination, and the first sounds from 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_2018_1207_New%20Crewmembers%20Onboard%20the%20Space%20Station%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20December%207,%202018.html
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The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. NASA Administrator […]
LIVE FROM SPACE! Starting at 11:15 a.m. EDT, you can hear from NASA astronauts currently living and working 250 miles above Earth aboard our orbiting laboratory. Tune in to hear International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy and Flight Engineers Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley report live on our historic #LaunchAmerica mission:
International Space Station Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Oct. 30 Kazakhstan time, after undocking their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft from the International Space Station several hours earlier. The trio spent […]
As we all go our separate ways this Memorial Day weekend, I urge everyone to remember the heroic sacrifice of the men and women who died in defense of our country while serving in the United States military. It is the dedication and commitment of these men and women, those who were willing to make […]
NASA Planetary Scientist, Jared Espley, is studying data being sent back from Mars by the MAVEN spacecraft, which is currently orbiting the Red Planet. The data, about the processes occurring in the upper atmosphere of Mars, can help answer some very important questions for humans planning to go to Mars – like, where is the […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA fielded questions about life and work on the orbital outpost during an in-flight educational event Sept. 18 with students from the Pine River-Backus schools in Pine River, Minnesota. Vande Hei is in the second week of a five and a half […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory during an in-flight interview June 1 with Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg. The interview, which was streamed […]
On May 31, NASA renamed humanity’s first mission to fly a spacecraft directly into the sun’s atmosphere in honor of Professor Eugene Parker, a pioneering physicist at the University of Chicago. This is the first time in agency history a spacecraft has been named for a living individual. Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor […]
The 2016 John H. Glenn Lecture in Space History was held on June 14, at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater in Washington, DC. The featured speakers, Apollo 11 astronaut, Major General Michael Collins, USAF (Ret.) and Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and founder/CEO of Amazon.com, reflected on the invention […]