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The Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15 Years of Science – Video

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 15 Years of Science
Fifteen years ago, NASA #39;s Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, Chandra has helped revolutionize our ...

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NASA Kennedy Space Center – Cape Canaveral Florida – Space Shuttle Atlantis – USA VLOG 11 – Video

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NASA: The Greatest Cover Up, NASA’s Apollo Cover Up – NASA Astronaut Footage – Video

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NASA: The Greatest Cover Up, NASA #39;s Apollo Cover Up - NASA Astronaut Footage
All the footage shown and analyzed here was originally shot by NASA astronauts during the Apollo missions (1968-1972) on 16mm film, using what was known as the "Data Acquisition Camera" - the...

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NASAs Orion, designed to carry astronauts to Mars, to embark on first test flight in December 2014 – Video

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NASAs Orion, designed to carry astronauts to Mars, to embark on first test flight in December 2014
The Orion spacecraft, which is designed to ultimately carry astronauts to Mars, will undergo an unmanned flight test in early December. The spacecraft will be launched on a Delta IV rocket...

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NASA prepares to wake New Horizons ahead of historic Pluto flyby

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In what must be historys longest distance wake up call, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft comes out of hibernation on December 6 at 3:00 pm EST. Now about 2.9 billion miles (4.6 billion km) from Earth, and 162 million miles (260 million km) from Pluto, the spacecraft will be put through a month-long preparation for its six month flyby of Pluto, with the primary phase of the mission slated to begin on January 15.

New Horizons' current state of hibernation means that most of the spacecrafts systems are shut down except for monitors and a weekly beacon-status transmission. So far, the probe has gone through 18 hibernation phases since it launched in 2006. This works out to 1,873 days in hibernation or two-thirds of the Pluto flyby mission.

The hibernation technique, which NASA pioneered, is a way of conserving onboard resources, cutting down on mission control personnel time, reducing time on NASAs Deep Space Network, and saving wear and tear on the spacecraft's electronics. New Horizons was reawoken periodically over the years to check the systems, rehearse the flyby, perform course corrections, and upload software updates. Last August, the probe was programmed to wake up on the scheduled December date. NASA says that 90 minutes after coming back online, New Horizons will transmit a confirmation back to Earth. However, this signal will not reach Earth for 4 hours and 25 minutes due to the enormous distances involved.

Once out of hibernation, mission control will put New Horizons through its final system checks and course corrections, download science data, and write and upload software updates. During the flyby, the probe will use its suite of seven scientific instruments to map Pluto, study its topology, temperatures, geology, and composition, as well as study the planet's moons and search for additional satellites.

One particular reason for the missions timing is that Pluto is currently in its late "summer" and scientists want to take the opportunity to study the planets atmosphere before it freezes again during its century-long winter. New Horizons instruments includes an advanced imaging infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, compact multicolor camera, high-resolution telescopic camera, two particle spectrometers, space-dust detector, and two radio experiments.

The US$650 million New Horizons mission was launched January 19, 2006 atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The unmanned 478 kg (1,054 lb) nuclear-powered spacecraft was sent on a 9.5-year mission to fly by Pluto and then on to study selected objects in the Kuiper Belt. Sent on a slingshot trajectory using the gravitational pull of Jupiter, New Horizons passed the orbit of Neptune on August 24 and will rendezvous with Pluto on July 14 of next year, which it will pass at a distance of 13,000 km (8,000 mi).

According to NASA, the mission was fast tracked due to the increasing knowledge about the Kuiper Belt. Since Pluto is the most accessible object originating from there, it seemed a logical way to gain direct information. In addition, it is the first mission sent to the only unvisited planet (if you're old school) in the Solar System.

NASA says that the flight team will be kept busy even after the flyby, because so much data will have been recorded that it wont all be transmitted to Earth until October 2016.

"We've worked years to prepare for this moment," says Mark Holdridge, New Horizons encounter mission manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "New Horizons might have spent most of its cruise time across nearly three billion miles of space sleeping, but our team has done anything but, conducting a flawless flight past Jupiter just a year after launch, putting the spacecraft through annual workouts, plotting out each step of the Pluto flyby and even practising the entire Pluto encounter on the spacecraft. We are ready to go."

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Fossil Imaged Next To NASA’s Curiosity Rover Wheels With MAHLI Camera – Video

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Fossil Imaged Next To NASA #39;s Curiosity Rover Wheels With MAHLI Camera
Another amazing image has been uncovered by Mars researchers. This certainly looks like a fossil that one would find of a living organism at some point. I am not sure why NASA just drove...

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NASA’s SCIENCE FICTION – Magnetic Atmospheric Holes (Glass Sky) – Video

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NASA #39;s SCIENCE FICTION - Magnetic Atmospheric Holes (Glass Sky)
Step out of the matrix of pseudo-science. Enter inside the concave earth with a glass sky and see things from God #39;s point of view. The Concave Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0yBX68g3vk...

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