9-Year-Old Reporter Talks Mars Trips with NASA Chief (Video)
A 9-year-old aspiring reporter saw his big dream come true recently when he interviewed NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. The boy, identified only as Max, was featured on the popular blog “Humans of New York,” where he said he’d like to be a reporter like his father, and that he’d like to write about NASA. The […]
Mind-Boggling View! NASA Mission Launches On Up Aerospace Rocket | Video
The space launch service provider deployed NASA’s Maraia Earth Return Capsule on their “10th SpaceLoft rocket launch.” It flew to an altitude of 75 miles above its Spaceport America launchpad and landed on the White Sands Missile Rage (30 miles downrange) on Nov. 6th, 2015. Credit: Up Aerospace To source
Cygnus Spacecraft Hauling Science to Space Station on Return-to-Flight Mission
Orbital ATK’s uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ahead of a planned Dec. 3, 2015 liftoff.Credit: United Launch Alliance The first launch of the private Cygnus cargo spacecraft since an October 2014 rocket explosion aims to deliver a wealth of […]
Mysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Source Detected | Video
Using new software, astronomers sifted through 650 hours of Green Bank Telescope data to uncover an elusive Fast Radio Burst (FRB). Occurring in a fraction of a second these extremely bright events are very hard pinpoint. The new detection, FRB 110523, has been narrowed down to a “highly magnetized region of space,” possibly a supernova […]
Cosmic filaments exposed near huge cluster
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe. To source
Space Station's Robotic Arm Set for Arrival of Cygnus Cargo Craft
The International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2, is visible over Earth in this Nov. 27, 2015 photograph. On Dec. 6, Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren will operate the Canadarm2 from inside the station’s cupola, using it for the rendezvous and grapple of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial cargo craft. To source
Space Station's Robotic Arm Set for Arrival of Cygnus Cargo Craft
The International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2, is visible over Earth in this Nov. 27, 2015 photograph. On Dec. 6, Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren will operate the Canadarm2 from inside the station’s cupola, using it for the rendezvous and grapple of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial cargo craft. To source
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Ready For Return To Flight | Video
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This Is the Hottest White Dwarf in Our Galaxy
This is a photo of nearby white dwarf Sirius B. No, not the big star at center — the little faint one just to the bottom-left.Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STSCI), AND M. Barstow (University of Leicester) New observations of a white dwarf reveal that it is a scorcher, at roughly 250,000 degrees Celsius (482,000 […]
LISA Pathfinder launch
Follow the launch of our LISA Pathfinder mission on 3 December. Coverage from Kourou starts 03:44 GMT; a press briefing from ESA’s space operations centre starts at 05:30 GMT To source
Christie's to Auction Omega Watches Flown in Space and to the Moon
An Omega Speedmaster flown to the moon on Apollo 17 and kept by astronaut Ron Evans as a memento will be sold on Dec. 15 as a part of Christie’s Omega Speedmaster 50 auction.Credit: collectSPACE.com Four decades after it journeyed a quarter of a million miles out into space, a watch used by the last […]
China's Space Prowess Could Challenge Decades of US Dominance: Report
Long March-3C rocket lifts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.Credit: China Space The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) recently released its 2015 annual report to Congress, and it includes an intriguing look at the China’s space and counterspace programs. The 2015 report, released in November and provided to Inside Outer Space by the […]
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