ISS/Kibo Monthly News: October – November, 2016 Last Updated: December 8, 2016 Topic of the Month Astronaut Takuya Onishi undergoing rehabilitation after returning to Earth Onishi just after landing (October 30. Credit: JAXA/NASA/Bill Ingalls) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who landed on Earth on October 30, has returned to Ellington Airport near the NASA Johnson Space Center […]
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33″> Flying By Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ Moon Mimas Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Saturn’s moon Mimas is dominated by a huge crater called Herschel that makes the moon look like the Death Star from “Star Wars.” This photo was taken Feb. 13, 2010, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Mimas is only 246 miles (396 kilometers) […]
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32″> Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Credit: © 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” delivers a blast to the past with familiar characters and revamped versions of spacecrafts and other vehicles. See photos of the new tech and scenes from the film in this gallery. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33″> The […]
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe captured this photo of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its final descent before the spacecraft crashed onto the comet on Sept. 30, 2016. The dramatic end of Europe’s Rosetta comet mission was the most-watched Livestream event of 2016, and another space mission cracked the top five. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) coverage […]
Artist’s illustration showing SpaceX’s Dragon capsule landing on Mars during an uncrewed “Red Dragon” mission. SAN FRANCISCO — NASA doesn’t plan to put any science instruments aboard SpaceX’s first Mars mission , which could launch as early as 2018, agency officials said. NASA wants to wait until SpaceX proves it can pull off a soft landing […]
The foreground of this scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows purple-hued rocks near the rover’s late-2016 location on lower Mount Sharp. The scene’s middle distance includes higher layers that are future destinations for the mission. To source
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One of Jupiter’s stormy “pearls” appears as a white oval on the left side of this new image by NASA’s Juno spacecraft taken on Dec. 11, 2016. This is the seventh of eight massive storms that make up Jupiter’s “string of pearls” storms, NASA says. Saturn’s rings may be the jewels of the solar system, […]
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Grabbing Japan’s supply spaceship with Space Station’s robotic arm To source
Project Blue, a private initiative to put a small telescope into orbit to look at our neighboring star Alpha Centauri, will be taking questions via Twitter today (Dec. 14) between 2 and 3 p.m. EDT (1900 and 2000 GMT) about the quest to find a potentially habitable planet around that star. Space.com will field questions […]
Although planets surround stars in the galaxy, how they form remains a subject of debate. Despite the wealth of worlds in our own solar system, scientists still aren’t certain how planets are built. Currently, two theories are duking it out for the role of champion. The first and most widely accepted, core accretion, works well […]
Katherine Johnson (left) sits in the audience for a special screening of “Hidden Figures” at NASA’s Langley Research Center Dec. 1. The film dramatizes her work computing trajectories and developing the mathematics of orbital flight in the early 1960s. NEW YORK — The upcoming film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicles the work and lives of African […]
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