The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02) as seen from the International Space Station Credits: NASA NASA,SEPTEMBER 9,2019:Media accreditation is open for the launch of Northrop Grumman’s 12th commercial resupply services mission aboard its Cygnus spacecraft to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Northrop Grumman is …
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Expedition 60 crew members Drew Morgan and Nick Hague pose with the spacesuits they wore during a recent spacewalk to install equipment that will accommodate the future arrivals of commercial crew spacecraft. Credits: NASA NASA,SEPTEMBER 9,2019:Students from Kentucky will have an opportunity this week to talk live with NASA astronauts …
The H-II Transfer Vehicle-7 (HTV-7) from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) is pictured being remotely guided with the Canadarm2 towards its attachment point on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. he HTV-7 took a four and a half day trip to the space station after launching Sept. 22, 2018, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The HTV-7 was captured …
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station July 27, 2019, on the company’s 18th cargo delivery to the space station as it orbits 265 miles above the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Namibia. Credits: NASA NASA,AUGUST 22,2019:Filled with almost 2,700 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo, a SpaceX …
NASA astronaut and Expedition 61-62 Flight Engineer Jessica Meir Credits: NASA NASA,AUGUST 22,2019: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir will be available from 7 to 8:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 4, for her final live satellite interviews before launching on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. The interviews, originating from Star …
On Aug. 16, 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will lead the Human Landing System Program. Bridenstine was joined by Representatives Mo Brooks and Robert Aderholt of Alabama and Representative Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee. NASA will rapidly develop the lander for …
Illustration of a human landing system and crew on the lunar surface with Earth near the horizon. Credits: NASA Nasa,July 30,2019: As NASA prepares to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program, commercial companies are developing new technologies, working toward space ventures of their own, and looking …
Mission Operations Control Room in the Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Credits: NASA Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon. Media are invited to …
A constant outflow of solar material streams out from the Sun, depicted here in an artist’s rendering. On June 20, 2019, NASA selected two new missions – the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission and Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) – to study the …
Nasa,June 7,2019 : NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit. This move comes as NASA focuses full speed ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the …