NASA | OSIRIS-REx Investigates Asteroid Bennu – Video




NASA | OSIRIS-REx Investigates Asteroid Bennu OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itse… By: NASAexplorer Continue reading

NASA Connects Space Station and "Star Trek Into Darkness" Crews in a Google+ Hangout – Video




NASA Connects Space Station and “Star Trek Into Darkness” Crews in a Google+ Hangout Astronaut Chris Cassidy, from aboard the International Space Station participated in a Google+ hangout with fellow astronauts at Johnson Space Center and cas… By: NASAtelevision Continue reading

Tasting Astronaut Food: Inside NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory – Video




Tasting Astronaut Food: Inside NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory Photos of all the food we tasted at NASA here (space smoothies!): http://www.tested.com/science/space/455535-tubes-tortillas-history-space-food-photos/ How d… By: testedcom Continue reading

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission goes to development

NASAs first asteroid sample return mission took a step closer to reality on Wednesday, as the OSIRIS-REx project was cleared for development and testing. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission passed a series of detailed project assessments and now goes on to the development phase Continue reading

Opportunity rover breaks 40-year-old NASA record for off-world driving

NASA / JPL-Caltech On May 15, the 3,309th Martian day of its Red Planet mission, NASA’s Opportunity rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) southward along the western rim of Endeavour Crater. By Mike Wall, Space.com NASA’s long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy Continue reading

NASA craft to visit asteroid approved, destination chosen

The Osiris-Rex spacecraft has been approved for development, and NASA plans to send it to meet up with asteroid Bennu within the next five years. A rendering of Osiris-Rex from a NASA concept video. NASA’s plan to go poking around on an asteroid, with the ultimate goal of snagging one of the space rocks and towing it closer to Earth, is moving forward, and a specific asteroid has been chosen to visit and sample in the next few years Continue reading

NASA Tests Orion Spaceship's Parachutes with Mock Glitch

NASA conducted a successful test of its next-generation spaceship last week, in an exercise designed to simulate two different types of parachute failures during landing. A prototype of the Orion spacecraft landed safely in the Arizona desert May 1 after it was dropped 25,000 feet (7,620 m) from a C-17 airplane as it flew over Yuma, Ariz. Continue reading