Tag: NASA
Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost
Feb. 7 – ‘Day of Remembrance’ – NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes
Expedition 57 crew returns to Earth following 197-day space mission
Yesterday, our favorite American space agency released word that three members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 57 crew, including NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, returned to Earth Thursday, safely landing at […]
Voyager 2 leaves earthly neighborhood and enters interstellar space
For the second time in history, a man-made object has reached the space between the stars. According to a December 10 release from NASA, the space agency’s Voyager 2 probe has exited […]
George H.W. Bush remembered by Trump, Obama and NASA
The 41st president of the U.S., George Herbert Walker Bush, died overnight on November 30, 2018. He lived to be 94. Bush was a political patriarch of notable Republicans, including […]
NASA’s InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to study planet’s deep interior
Today, Mars received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, […]
NASA: Three-million-year-old crater discovered beneath the ice in Greenland
On November 14, NASA reported that an international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice […]
After 11 years, NASA’s Dawn Mission runs out of gas around dwarf planet Ceres
On November 1, NASA reported that the space agency’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed […]
Space Station crew recovered following rocket launch failure (video)
At 7:52 a.m. this morning, NASA released a statement concerning Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch headed to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]
NASA TV to air launch of NASA astronaut Nick Hagues’ first space mission
Astronaut Nick Hague, who joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 2013, is preparing to launch Thursday, October 11, on his first space mission – a six-month stay on the International Space Station. The […]
NASA may have discovered first moon outside our solar system ever found
NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. On October 3, NASA reported that […]
