Category Archives: Nasa

Apollo 50th: First Crew Launches on Apollo 7

On October 11th, 1968, just 15 months from President Kennedy’s deadline for a moon landing, NASA launched its first Apollo crew into space. Apollo 7’s Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham spent 11 days in low Earth orbit, thoroughly testing the Apollo Command and Service Module’s systems. The crew also won an Emmy for […]

NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain

NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing […]

Space Station Science at 17,500 Miles Per Hour

The International Space Station is your orbiting laboratory, and the science being conducted there will help us push farther into deep space, while providing benefits back on Earth. Microgravity unlocks new worlds of discovery. See what we’re learning: https://go.nasa.gov/2fKxty8

The Life and Death of a Planetary System

How are stars and planets born? What happens to its planets when a star dies? At our Exoplanets website, come along on an epic interstellar journey, billions of years long, through the life and death of a planetary system: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/life-and-death/intro/

NASA | 360 Video of Parker Solar Probe Mission to "Touch" the Sun

Watch in 360 degrees as an United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. Roughly the size of a small car, the spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 12, 2018, starting its historic […]

NASA | 360 Video of Parker Solar Probe Mission to “Touch” the Sun

Watch in 360 degrees as an United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft. Roughly the size of a small car, the spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 12, 2018, starting its historic […]

Solar Particles and Earth's Magnetic Field

NASA’s THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth’s magnetic field.

Solar Particles and Earth’s Magnetic Field

NASA’s THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth’s magnetic field.

A New Partnership to Power The Lunar Gateway on This Week @NASA – May 24, 2019

A key milestone for our lunar Gateway, “rolling out” for a critical Orion safety test, and a chance to send your name to 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_2019_0524_A%20New%20Partnership%20to%20Power%20The%20Lunar%20Gateway%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20%E2%80%93%20May%2024,%202019.html