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 […]
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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 […]
Lunar exploration runs in the family for the Petros. NASA lunar scientist Noah Petro interviews his father, Denis, about his work as an Apollo program engineer. In a heartfelt conversation, Noah and his dad examine the human impact of the momentous Apollo 11 mission and their shared passion for science and learning. Ginny from Danville, […]
NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg spoke with social media followers and their guests at NASA Headquarters after recently returning from a 5.5-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Participants learned how Karen lived and worked from space, and as an artist, quilting and drawing http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition36/nyberg_profile.html#.UyMrRPldWSo during her off time; how she managed the unique aspects and […]
NASA 50th Anniversary Lecture Series Dr. Stephen Hawking Lecture “Why We Should Go Into Space” George Washington University April 21, 2008 In 4 parts
Following the arrival of the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station on Feb. 23, the station crew used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture the Dragon. Ground controllers then sent commands for the robot arm to maneuver the vehicle to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module where it was installed […]
Two hours after docking, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev and Flight Engineers Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Barry Wilmore of NASA were greeted by space station Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency. As the hatches […]
NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft performs flight tests in preparation to fly in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft. On June 12, 2018, NASA successfully flew the historic flight. News release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-flies-large-unmanned-aircraft-in-public-airspace-without-chase-plane-for-first The flight will help to move the United States one step closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspace used […]
Preparing to ‘Launch America,’ a cargo spacecraft arrives at the space station, and the detective capabilities of our next Mars rover … 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-Preparing%20to%20Launch%20America%20into%20a%20New%20Era%20of%20Space%20Exploration%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20May%2029,%202020