In this video, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley take viewers on a tour of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that will take them on a 19-hour-journey to their new home in orbit. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Pad 39A at 3:22 […]
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The International Space Station, a laboratory like no other, offers something we can’t get on our home planet: Microgravity. Come along with #NASAExplorers as we follow a team of scientists during their journey to launch their research off our planet to the space station, and to see what microgravity may reveal. #S4E0
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 47 Flight Engineer and British astronaut Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) discussed life and research on the orbital outpost with SKY News during an in-flight interview March 29. Peake is in the second half of a six-month mission on the complex, with his return to Earth planned […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine recently sat down with Nobel Prize winner John Mather and the agency’s Associate Administrator for Science, Thomas Zurbuchen for a conversation about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. They talked about the challenges of building the world’s premier space telescope and why it’s all worth it. Webb is the first telescope of […]
Video of a NASA star gazing “party” at the David M. Brown Planetarium in Arlington, Va. on Jan. 19. Free and open to the public, the event featured astronomers, astronauts, and other experts answering questions about the night sky. Telescopes were provided; planetarium shows were also held.
Astronauts on the International Space Station get food that’s chosen for nutritional value and specially prepared and packaged to be accessible on orbit. Could the same food feed the needs of people stuck on planet Earth? We conducted an experiment to find out how well two regular people could get by eating only astronaut food […]
The reins of the International Space Station were passed from NASA’s Jeff Williams to cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Sept. 5. Williams is returning to Earth Sept. 7 with his Expedition 48 crewmates, Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos in the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft for a […]
Former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov relived the highlights of the spacewalk he conducted 50 years ago – the first spacewalk in history — during an interview with NASA Public Affairs Officer Rob Navias in Moscow in May 2014. Leonov, who is now 80 years old, stepped out of his Voskhod 2 spacecraft on March 18, […]
New arrivals in low-Earth orbit – welcome aboard the space station! More research, supplies, and other cargo heads to the station, and a new partner for our …
It is no easy task to capture the shadow of Pluto as it travels across the surface of Earth at more than 53,000 mph—but that is exactly what NASA scientists and flight crew did on the night of June 29, 2015. In a true team effort, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA’s infrared […]