The unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 67 cargo ship automatically docked to the rear port of the station’s Zvezda Service Module on June 16, completing a two-day journey following its launch atop a Soyuz booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 14. The new Progress is delivering three tons of food, fuel and supplies […]
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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield along with Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy of NASA discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory with students gathered at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta Nov. 17. The educational in-flight event was part of NASA’s “Destination Station” traveling exhibit designed to […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield along with Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy of NASA discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory with students gathered at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta Nov. 17. The educational in-flight event was part of NASA’s “Destination Station” traveling exhibit designed to […]
Discover what NASA’s Earth data sounds like when it’s turned into music. With each passing Earth Day, the drums get louder. Every sound and instrument tell a story. The higher the pitch of the music, the more data collected from NASA Earth science missions. The guitar represents the mission launches. The orchestra is split up […]
“Houston, we’ve had a problem” is the now famous phrase radioed from Apollo 13 to Mission Control upon the catastrophic explosion that dramatically changed the mission. On the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, we recognize the triumph of the mission control team and the astronauts, and look at the lessons learned. The Apollo […]
Apollo 9 launched 40 years ago on March 3, 1969. This video commemorates that successful mission designed to test the lunar module while in earth orbit.
Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos were greeted during a traditional ceremony in Kazakhstan on Mar. 2, a few hours after landing in their Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Kelly and Kornienko spent 340 days in space, aboard the International Space Station conducting research on the long […]
Mackenzie Davis and Sebastian Stan, stars of 20th Century Fox’s Film “The Martian”, got a tour from Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa. News media followed the tour taking a peek at what NASA’s “Real Martians” are working on. For more videos of the visit: Space Station Crew Members Talk to Cast of The Martian […]
Meet the scientists who are making big discoveries by studying some very tiny rocks. The women of NASA’s Mid-Atlantic Noble Gas Research Laboratory (MNGRL) are getting ready to analyze never-before-seen Moon samples. These samples, collected by Apollo astronauts and brought back to Earth, have been carefully preserved for half a century so they could be […]
Thanks to NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and the Deep Space Network, we have evidence that a large underground ocean of water exists on Saturn’s moon …