A brilliant orange flame cast against a sky of thick, gray clouds is captured in these glorious videos and images of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sunday (Feb. 19) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket lofted one of the company’s Dragon cargo capsules into orbit, on a path to rendezvous with […]
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'Destination Moon': Museums and Science Centers Plan for Apollo 11 Exhibit
Columbia, the Apollo 11 command module, is seen at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center’s restoration hangar in Virginia. The spacecraft will depart on a national tour from October 2017 to September 2019 celebrating the moon landing’s 50th anniversary. For Houston, it will be a homecoming; for St. Louis, a product of its past. In Pittsburgh, […]
Capture Confirmed! SpaceX Dragon is Now Berthed to Space Station | Video
By Steve Spaleta | February 23, 2017 09:10am ET After waving off a docking attempt on Feb. 22nd, 2017 due to a software glitch, the SpaceX cargo spacecraft was successfully berthed to the International Space Station on Feb. 23. NASA PAO commentator Rob Navias makes the call. [Full Story] credit : NASA Watch more ► Shows […]
Charles T. Smoot
Charles Smoot was employed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program targeting qualified African American students from universities across the nation. To source
Two radar eyes are better than one
A novel airborne experiment over the flat agricultural landscape of the Netherlands recently simulated, for the first time, images that could be taken by radar satellites orbiting in tandem. To source
Discovery of 7 Earth-Size Exoplanets a 'Giant Leap' Forward in Alien-Life Hunt
The discovery of seven Earth-size worlds circling a nearby star could be a watershed moment in humanity’s quest to find alien life, scientists say. On Wednesday (Feb. 22), an international team of astronomers announced that seven planets about the size of our own orbit TRAPPIST-1 , a tiny, cool star that lies just 39 light-years […]
Exoplanet Tour: Meet the 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer | February 23, 2017 06:33am ET Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech TRAPPIST-1: A system full of possibility Astronomers have discovered the first known system to host seven Earth-size planets around one star , and it lies just 39 light-years away from our own solar system. Using data from the TRAPPIST telescope in Chile and other […]
SpaceX Dragon Delivers NASA Cargo to Space Station After 24-Hour Delay
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship filled with more than 2 tons of NASA supplies has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a one-day delay due to a navigation software glitch. The Dragon space capsule was captured today (Feb. 23) by the station’s robotic arm at 5:44 a.m. EST (0944 GMT) by astronauts Shane […]
Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test
The hoverbike prototype, dubbed Scorpion-3, is capable of lifting itself and a driver into the air. Credit: Hoversurf/YouTube Think of it as half drone, half motorcycle: A new hoverbike prototype aims to make flying as simple as riding a bike. Hoversurf, a Russian drone startup, recently unveiled its Scorpion-3 hoverbike in a test- flight video — […]
NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. To source
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Smithsonian to Launch Apollo 11 Columbia Spacecraft on National Tour
The Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, is embarking on a two-year, four city tour in celebration of the mission’s 50th anniversary. “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” marks the first time the craft has left the Smithsonian in 46 years. The iconic NASA spacecraft that flew with the first U.S. astronauts to walk on the […]
White Water: NASA Probes Snow's Effect on Water Resources
No resource on Earth is more precious than water; all life on the planet depends on it to survive. However, only a fraction of Earth’s water, a mere 3 percent, is freshwater, and about 70 percent of that freshwater is inaccessible, locked up in glaciers, ice and permanent snow cover. In fact, both seasonal and […]