Artist concept of the solar system. Credits: NASA NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions. Although they’re not official missions yet and some ultimately may not be chosen to move forward, the selections focus on compelling targets and science that are not covered …
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NASA is hiring new astronauts to explore the Moon and Mars! If you have what it takes to be an Artemis Generation astronaut, apply online March 2-31. Credits: NASA As NASA prepares to launch American astronauts this year on American rockets from American soil to the International Space Station – …
Launch of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission to study the Sun from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Feb. 9, 2020. Credits: Jared Frankle Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on …
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020 after logging 328 days in space — the longest spaceflight in history by a woman — as a member of Expeditions 59-60-61 on the International Space Station. Credits: NASA NASA, FEBRUARY 7,2020: NASA astronaut Christina Koch will participate in …
NASA astronaut Christina Koch is helped out of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft just minutes after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, landed their Soyuz MS-13 capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Koch returned to Earth after …
NASA, FEB 6,2020: NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the status of the joint independent review team investigation into the primary issues detected during the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants …
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Nov. 2, 2019. Editor’s Note: The advisory was updated to reflect changes in participants in the What’s on Board briefing. NASA, FEB 4,2020: Northrop Grumman’s next NASA resupply services mission …
NASA astronaut Christina Koch is pictured during a spacewalk on January 15, 2020. Credits: NASA NASA, FEBRUARY 3,2020: NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 6, after 328 days living and working aboard the International Space Station. Her mission is the longest single spaceflight by any woman, which …
ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter will travel inside the orbit of Mercury and capture the first images of the Sun’s north and south poles. Credits: ESA/ATG Medialab NASA, JANUARY 23,2020: NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) scientists will discuss Solar Orbiter, the agencies’ collaboration set to launch next month on its journey …
NASA, JANUARY 24,2020: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Marla Pérez-Davis director of the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, effective immediately. Pérez-Davis has been serving as the acting director of Glenn since Oct. 1, 2019. “I offer my sincere congratulations to Dr. Marla Pérez-Davis for being named NASA Glenn’s permanent …