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A visitor to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex takes a virtual tour of Mars, in the new exhibit “Destination: Mars,” debuting in the summer of 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Microsoft Virtual-reality systems under development could train astronauts, maneuver the Mars rover and support explorers on their long journey to Mars. Yesterday (May 17) at the Humans […]
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly inside the International Space Station’s cupola during his one-year mission aboard the orbiting lab. Credit: NASA Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has been back on Earth for more than two months, but much of the science conducted during his unprecedented yearlong stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) just landed. When […]
The Jupiter fireball of March 17, 2016, captured by Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon. Credit: G. Kernbauer, J. McKeon, S. Voltmer Jupiter doesn’t get whacked by asteroids and comets quite as often as scientists had thought. Objects big enough to generate a fireball visible from Earth — such as the spectacular one that occurred on […]
ISS/Kibo Monthly News (First issue) Last Updated: May 19, 2016 ISS/Kibo Monthly News introduces events on the Japanese Experiment Module (“Kibo”) and the International Space Station (ISS) and activities of JAXA Astronauts. Topic of the Month Philippine’s 50-kg-class microsatellite “DIWATA-1” deployed from Kibo Deployment of DIWATA-1 (Credit: JAXA/NASA) On April 27 at 8:45 pm, a […]
According to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke, the Perseids are perhaps the most popular meteor shower of the year. Typical rates are about 80 meteors an hour, but in outburst years (such as in 2016) the rate can be between 150-200 meteors an hour. In 2017, the Perseids will be a little more difficult to […]
The Big Apple is a hive of sci-fi fun this summer. There are three science-fiction-related museum exhibits that will be on display: an exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image featuring concept art created in the 1960s for “2001: A Space Odyssey”; a massive “Star Wars” costume exhibit, spanning all seven films, in Times […]
Scott Kelly returned to Earth from the International Space Station March 1 after 340 days as part of NASA’s ambitious yearlong space station mission. Credit: NASA Scott Kelly is a former NASA astronaut who is best known for spending nearly a year on the International Space Station and for spending more time in space than […]
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ET-94, NASA’s last remaining flight-qualified space shuttle external tank, arrives at Marina del Rey, completing its ocean voyage to Los Angeles, on May 18, 2016. Credit: California Science Center/David Knight via collectSPACE.com NASA’s last existing external tank built to launch the space shuttle has made landfall in Los Angeles after a five-week ocean journey. The […]
About H3 Launch Vehicle Safer, more useful, more accessibleSupports future space applicationsJapan quality, global standard The H3 Launch Vehicle is a liquid propellant launch vehicle currently under development. This is the first full-scale development of the 21st century. The aim of this development is to respond to launch demands from global customers. Based on our […]
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