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NASA’s VIPER Gets Its Head and Neck

[ad_1] A team of engineers lifts the mast into place atop of NASA’s VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Image Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e013783orig/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link

Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away

[ad_1] This spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface was acquired during a 20-second period starting at 2:59 p.m. EDT (18:59:19 UTC) on April 8, 2024, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/m1467242026l-cal-echo-reduce11-4fi-rotate-ee9150/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link

The First Space Shuttle – NASA

[ad_1] The new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981. That is when the first Space Shuttle mission (STS-1) was launched. The Marshall Space Flight Center developed the propulsion system for the Space Shuttle. This photograph depicts the launch of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia crewed with two astronauts, John Young and Robert […]

Seeing Totality – NASA

[ad_1] A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts […]

Astronauts Protect Their Eyes with Eclipse Glasses

[ad_1] NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, left, Frank Rubio, Warren Hoburg, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, right, pose for a photo wearing solar glasses, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Bowen, Hoburg, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of […]

Exobiology Deputy Branch Chief Melissa Kirven-Brooks

[ad_1] “… I’ve just seen such tremendous things happen since I’ve been part of the Astrobiology Program, and that’s why I’m pretty confident we’re going to find life elsewhere, because there are just so many brilliant people working on this.” — Melissa Kirven-Brooks, Exobiology Deputy Branch Chief and Future Workforce Lead of the NASA Astrobiology […]

Carving a Path – NASA

[ad_1] What looks like highways going through a metropolitan area are actually a series of glaciers carving their way through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas. This photograph was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 263 miles above. Image Credit: NASA/Woody Hoburg Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss069e060266-2/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] […]

A Home for Astronauts around the Moon

[ad_1] The primary structure of the Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module is one step closer to launch following welding completion in Turin, Italy. HALO is one of four Gateway modules where astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions. NASA is partnering with Northrop Grumman and their subcontractor […]

Large Magellanic Fireworks – NASA

[ad_1] Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. Image Credit: NASA, STScI/AURA Read More https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia04609orig/Copy URL to clipboard> DownloadShare [ad_2] Source link

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Preflight – NASA

[ad_1] Jupiter, top, and Venus, bottom, are seen with the crescent Moon above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continued for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. The agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission was the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 […]

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