Actors Sebastian Stan and Mackenzie Davis from the movie “The Martian” take a spin in NASA’s Modular Robotic Vehicle, or MRV, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.Credit: collectSPACE.com /Robert Z. Pearlman HOUSTON — NASA rolled out the red carpet for two “Red Planet” movie actors on Tuesday (Sept. 15), sharing a behind-the-scenes look at […]
Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on “Star Trek,” received an award on Aug. 31 from the organization Shades of Blue for her work as a NASA astronaut recruiter.Credit: Stefan Petryszyn DENVER — “Beyond and beyond and beyond,” sings Nichelle Nichols. The 82-year-old actress-singer’s voice sails over draped round tables and wafts through the crowd […]
Artist’s depiction of NASA’s Orion spacecraft mated to a European-built service module.Credit: NASA/Sierra Nevada Corp, The first manned flight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is being built to help humanity explore Mars and other distant destinations, may be delayed by two years, until 2023, agency officials announced today. Orion’s first crewed sojourn, known as Exploration […]
Last week, NASA announced the top 30 finalists for their 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge . The contest is meant to encourage innovation in the area of 3D-printing and to develop a shelter on Mars using local materials, such as Martian soil, or recycled materials from spacecraft. Road Trip! 10 Tricked-Out Mobile Homes Rev Up There are […]
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos unveils the company’s plans to launch a fleet of reusable rockets and spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida during a media event on Sept. 15, 2015.Credit: Blue Origin Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t the only billionaire who wants to put his stamp on spaceflight. Bezos announced Tuesday (Sept. […]
The Cassini spacecraft’s close view of the southern terrain of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which contains a massive global ocean under its surface, scientists recently confirmed.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn’s moon Enceladus is an active water world with a global body of water sloshing around deep below its icy crust, scientists have confirmed. Gorgeous geysers of […]
Lockheed Martin engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, perform the first weld on the Orion spacecraft pressure vessel for Exploration Mission-1 on Sept. 5, 2015. This is the third pressure Orion pressure vessel built. To source
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The moon passed through Earth’s shadow on Sunday, Sept. 27, in a dazzling total lunar eclipse during a perigee full moon, better known as a “supermoon.” ic ‘supermoon’ blood moon on Sept. 27, 2015. See Amazing Total Lunar Eclipse Photos by Skywatchers Supermoons occur when the moon reaches its full phase at or near the satellite’s […]
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Smaller and older than the Milky Way, and very close by, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is lurking right in plain sight, easy to miss. But studying the faint satellite galaxy is revealing more about how groups of stars form and evolve. Today (Sept. 16), the European Southern Observatory released a new image of the Sculptor […]
About 280,000 light years from Earth, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy contains many very old stars. It’s diffuse nature lets light from very distant galaxies through to the seniors of the La Silla Observatory. (Full Story) Credit: DSS, ESO/ mash mix: Space.com To source
Starting with the waxing crescent moon tonight (Sept. 16), skywatchers with binoculars or small telescopes can spot the moon’s geographic features in vivid detail. Here’s how, and what to look out for. Over the course of the month, the moon cycles through new moon, to first quarter, to full moon, to last quarter and back […]