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
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NASA Internship at Goddard Space Flight Center: Infrared Flash Technique – Video
NASA Internship at Goddard Space Flight Center: Infrared Flash Technique A new method for Non Destructive Evaluation of materials is being used at the GSFC. The infrared flash thermography technique uses optoelectronic sensors to … Continue reading
NASA Commercial Partner Sierra Nevada Completes Safety Review
WASHINGTON — Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems of Louisville, Colo., has completed its first major, comprehensive safety review of its Dream Chaser Space System. This is the company’s latest paid-for-performance milestone with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which is working with commercial space partners to develop capabilities to launch U.S Continue reading
Inslee’s aerospace plan: Land the 777X
Published: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 5:49 p.m. “We need to prove hands down (Washington) is the place to build this airplane,” Inslee said. Continue reading
NASA rover studies ice sheet
WASHINGTON (dpa) – A NASA rover was due to begin roaming the frigid landscape of Greenland next week, collecting data to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet, an agency spokeswoman said Friday. The robot carries what NASA described as “ground-penetrating radar” to study how snow accumulates layer by layer to form the ice sheet, the agency said. For the past six months NASA’s Mars rover has made headlines with its exploration of the surface of the Red Planet since landing there in August Continue reading
NASA satellite snaps spectacular images of volcanic eruption
Launched in February and now 438 miles above the Earth’s surface, NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite took several photos of an erupting Indonesian volcano. A NASA satellite has demonstrated that the best place to view an erupting volcano is from 438 miles straight up. Continue reading
NASA Mulls Missions for Donated Spy Satellite Telescopes
NASA is sorting through a variety of possible uses for a pair of powerful spy satellite telescopes that fell into the agency’s lap last year. In November, NASA asked scientists to suggest missions for the telescopes, which were donated by the U.S. Continue reading
NASA Flight Controller Talks Space with Students – Video
NASA Flight Controller Talks Space with Students Johnson Space Center Flight Controller Cinda Chullen answers questions from 11th and 12th grade students at Naperville North High School in Naperville, IL du… By: NASAtelevision Continue reading
Space Station Live: Payload Communicator Stacy Jones – Video
Space Station Live: Payload Communicator Stacy Jones Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center talks with Stacy Jones, Payload Communicator, or PAYCOM. By: ReelNASA Continue reading
NASA Flight – Video
NASA Flight USA NASA FLIGHT! This is not in real life, it's from ROBLOX, so if you think this is a real life recording, leave this page. It feels like real life, but I d… By: yousef saib Continue reading
NASA's GROVER roves over snow for over a month
NASA’s GROVER, without solar panels. The laptop is a temporary fixture (Photo: Gabriel Trisca, Boise State University) NASA’s autonomous, solar-powered explorer GROVER has been kitted out with ground-penetrating radar to take to Greenland’s ice sheet on Friday. There the robot will spend a month analyzing the accumulation of snow and how this contributes to the ice sheet over time. Continue reading
9-Year-Old Names Asteroid 'Bennu' for NASA Mission
A near-Earth asteroid that will be visited by a NASA spacecraft in 2018 now has a more approachable name “Bennu” thanks to a North Carolina third-grader. Nine-year-old Michael Puzio’s suggestion beat out more than 8,000 other entries in an international student contest that sought to rename potentially dangerous asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36, which is the target of NASA’s Osiris-Rex sample-return mission. “It’s great!” Puzio said when told he won the contest. Continue reading
Abe in Russia for islands talks
28 April 2013 Last updated at 23:36 ET Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Russia for the two nations’ first top-level talks in a decade. Discussions are set to focus on energy deals and a territorial row unresolved since the end of World War II. Continue reading
Antares Launch from Wallops Island 2013-04-21 NASA; Antares First Flight – Video
Antares Launch from Wallops Island 2013-04-21 NASA; Antares First Flight more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ First launch of the Orbital Sciences Antares. Includes views from the launch vehicle in flight of ascent, stage separa… By: Jeff Quitney Continue reading
NASA Kicks Off 20th Great Moonbuggy Race
April 26, 2013 Image Credit: NASA / MSFC / Pay Downward Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online NASAs annual Great Moonbuggy Race kicked off today in Huntsville, Alabama, marking 20 years since the competition began. The annual Great Moonbuggy Race involves high school- and college-aged students who build lightweight, human-powered moonbuggies that address many of the same design challenges NASA and industry engineers overcame during the Apollo missions. In the late 1960s, NASA engineers designed the Apollo-era Lunar Roving Vehicles to allow astronauts to range across the harsh lunar surface. Continue reading
NASA Probes Near Sun Safe from Triple Solar Eruption
Two NASA spacecraft are safe and sound, after the sun unleashed three intense back-to-back solar eruptions in their direction, scientists say. NASA’s Messenger spacecraft in orbit around Mercury and the Stereo-A, which studies the sun from Earth orbit, suffered no damage from the passing solar storms. On April 20, the sun fired off a solar eruption that sent huge wave of plasma and charged particles, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), toward Mercury. Continue reading
Space Flight (The Solar System Part 6) – Video
Space Flight (The Solar System Part 6) http://www.zaneeducation.com – Space Flight is Part 6 of The Solar System – an Elementary Science Title You'll explore space flight, the planets, asteroids, … By: zaneeducate Continue reading
X-15 Flight by Capt. Joe Engle 1964 NASA-USAF; Edwards Air Force Base X-15A-3 56-6672 NB-52B – Video
X-15 Flight by Capt. Joe Engle 1964 NASA-USAF; Edwards Air Force Base X-15A-3 56-6672 NB-52B more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ X-15 simulator training, and a flight of the X-15A-3 ( 56-6672 ) by then Air Force Captain Joe Engle, (later a Space S.. Continue reading
NASA successfully launches three smartphone satellites
Apr. 22, 2013 Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The trio of “PhoneSats” is operating in orbit, and may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown in space. Continue reading
NASA to Webcast Lyrid Meteor Shower Tonight: Watch It Live
The annual Lyrid meteor shower may have peaked overnight on Sunday and Monday, but if you missed the celestial fireworks show don’t fret. NASA’s got you covered Continue reading