NASA Astronauts Fly Dream Chaser Simulations May 15-17 Jack Fischer was one of four NASA astronauts to fly approach and landing simulations of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser spacecraft at the agency's L… By: NASAKennedy Continue reading
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NASA Astronauts, Star Trek Crew Connect via Google+ Hangout – Video
NASA Astronauts, Star Trek Crew Connect via Google+ Hangout To view the full Hangout, please visit: http://youtu.be/r7_BZe6cGoI —– Astronaut Chris Cassidy, from aboard the International Space Station participated i… By: NASAtelevision Continue reading
America's first space station Skylab turns 40
Before the International Space Station and viral videos from space, there was Skylab — America’s first space station. 30 Photos Play Video Skylab launched into space by the unmanned Saturn V rocket on May 14, 1973 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Continue reading
Space Station Crew Returns to Earth Tonight: How to Watch it Live
After months living in space, two astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will return home from the International Space Station tonight (May 13) and you can watch their landing live online. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American astronaut Tom Marshburn and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are preparing to leave the space station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft for a planned landing at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 May 14 GMT) on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan, where the local time will be early Tuesday morning. Continue reading
NASA astronauts fix leak on International Space Station
Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy conducted a spacewalk Saturday to fix an ammonia leak. They replaced a suspected faulty pump on the International Space Station. Continue reading
NASA astronauts finish spacewalk
NASA astronauts have replaced a pump during an emergency spacewalk to stop an ammonia leak at the International Space Station’s power system, NASA television shows. The spacewalk was successfully completed an hour ahead of schedule at 1814 GMT (0414 AEST Sunday) five and a half hours after flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy ventured outside the space station. Continue reading
NASA astronauts end spacewalk to fix ammonia leak
NASA astronauts performed an emergency spacewalk Saturday to halt an ammonia leak on the International Space Station but it will take weeks or months to determine whether the problem has been permanently fixed. The spacewalk was successfully completed an hour ahead of schedule at 1814 GMT, five and a half hours after flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy ventured outside the ISS. Continue reading
NASA astronauts on spacewalk to fix leak
NASA astronauts are performing an emergency spacewalk to try to stop ammonia from leaking from the International Space Station’s power system, NASA television shows. During the spacewalk, expected to last six and a half hours, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy will inspect and possibly repair the ammonia leak that affected the US segment of the orbiting laboratory on Thursday. ‘Spacewalk under way to repair ammonia leak,’ said the headline of a US space agency statement. Continue reading
Spacewalkers head out to fix space station's coolant leak – if they can
LIVE VIDEO Expedition 35 crew members Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn conduct a spacewalk on the International Space Station to inspect and possibly stop a leak of ammonia coolant. Continue reading
Prestigious Awards Won By NASA Curiosity Rover
May 10, 2013 Image Caption: This self-portrait of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity combines 66 exposures taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013) Continue reading
NASA Curiosity Rover Wins Prestigious Awards
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards. The National Aeronautic Association will present its Robert J Continue reading
Space Station Suffers Troubling Coolant Leak
Astronauts on the International Space Station have discovered a leak of ammonia coolant on their orbiting habitat, and NASA is looking into the problem, though it poses no immediate danger to the crew, officials said today (May 9). Continue reading
Disc-Shaped UFO Captured Above Earth by Nasa Astronauts – Video
Disc-Shaped UFO Captured Above Earth by Nasa Astronauts http://youtube.com/thecosmosnews Here is Original Picture:http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007 roll=E frame=16252. Continue reading
Space Station Leaking Vital Coolant, NASA Says
Astronauts on the International Space Station have discovered a leak of ammonia coolant on their orbiting habitat, and NASA is looking into the problem, though it poses no immediate danger to the crew, officials said today (May 9). The space station uses chilled liquid ammonia to cool down the power systems on its eight giant solar array panels. A minor leak of this ammonia was first noticed in 2007, and NASA has been studying the issue ever since Continue reading
Space Station Is Big Step Toward Mars, Astronaut Says
A NASA astronaut sees his work aboard the International Space Station as a means of bringing humanity a little closer to setting foot on Mars. During a 25-minute webcast Tuesday (May 7), members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportations Subcommittee on Science and Space asked NASA’s Tom Marshburn to delve into the science, downtime and other parts of life on the space station. Continue reading
It's Time to Get Serious About Going to Mars, NASA Says
WASHINGTON If NASA is to land humans on Mars by the 2030s, as President Barack Obama has directed, there’s not much time to settle on a plan and develop the technologies required, agency officials said Monday (May 6). Continue reading
'Bullet hole' in space station
Chris Hadfield (via Twitter as (at)Cmdr_Hadfield) Astronaut Chris Hadfield snapped this shot of a “bullet hole” created by a micrometeoroid or piece of space junk in one of the space station’s solar arrays. By Miriam Kramer Space.com Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have dodged a cosmic bullet … literally. Continue reading
NASA Extends Contract For Russian Transportation To Space
May 1, 2013 Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online NASA signed another contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to continue using its services for transporting crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The move is a reminder of how the US still has no transportation to space from its own soil ever since retiring the space shuttle program back in 2011. The $424 million addition to the contract extends services for Russian transportation through June 2017. Continue reading
Astronauts Answers Questions from International Space Station by NASA – Video
Astronauts Answers Questions from International Space Station by NASA Astronauts Answers Questions from International Space Station by NASA. NASA Astronauts in space answers peoples questions from the International Space Statio… Continue reading
Russia's Damaged Progress Cargo Resupply Ship Docks With Space Station
April 26, 2013 Image Caption: An earlier Progress cargo ship prior to docking with the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online Despite all odds, Russias Progress 51 cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 8:25 a.m. EDT Continue reading