NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Bob Hines is pictured during a training session inside a mockup of the Crew Dragon vehicle at SpaceX Headquarters. https://ift.tt/hUNbYqa
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Mark Vande Hei and Crew Mates Safely Land
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, left, and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, center, and Pyotr Dubrov are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after landing. https://ift.tt/tcRPWjf
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
A Homecoming for Mark Vande Hei
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei arrived at the International Space Station on April 9, 2021, and will return home March 30, 2022, after spending 355 days in low-Earth orbit. https://ift.tt/PAgeEb7
Monday, March 28, 2022
Smash-Up: How To Create Rocky Planets
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. https://ift.tt/OJskjWK
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
Pioneering Female Aviator Wally Funk Wins 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement
Wally Funk delivers remarks after accepting the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement. https://ift.tt/K5j6ukO
Thursday, March 24, 2022
What's New on the Moon ... After 50 Years
One of the last unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 has been opened under the careful direction of lunar sample processors and curators. https://ift.tt/Cqx1lru
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Contraband Corned Beef and the Gemini III Mission
Astronaut John Young, the pilot of the Gemini III mission, inspects his helmet in the ready room in preparation for the launch. https://ift.tt/EsYkWJT
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
5,000 Exoplanets and Counting
A new raft of discoveries marks a scientific high point: More than 5,000 planets are now confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. https://ift.tt/Uy5h6YQ
Monday, March 21, 2022
A View to a Nebula
This colorful image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and published in 2018, celebrated the observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens. https://ift.tt/ANZenxr
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022
Artemis I in Moonlight
Earth's Moon is seen rising behind NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. https://ift.tt/pFaEqLk
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Artemis I First Rollout
NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. https://ift.tt/vPwSFHT
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Remembering Visionary Heliophysicist Eugene Parker
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, has passed away. He was 94. https://ift.tt/Z4FGPN8
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
NASA Astronaut Breaks American Space Record
In this image from August 2021, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei sits and reads while on the International Space Station. https://ift.tt/BmPCMJw
Monday, March 14, 2022
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Friday, March 11, 2022
Hubble Views an Infant Star’s Outburst
An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. https://ift.tt/qTpQP46
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Cygnus Cargo Craft at the Space Station
This February 2022 image of Northrop Grummans's Cygnus cargo craft is pictured attached to the International Space Station. https://ift.tt/Jmdrg6K
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
3.6 Billion Years in Pastel Colors
The Pilbara in northwestern Australia exposes some of the oldest rocks on Earth, over 3.6 billion years old. https://ift.tt/ZzMhQRT
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Engineering NASA’s Return to the Moon
These engineers developed and tested Space Launch System software that will tell the rocket how to operate for the first 8 minutes of Artemis during launch and ascent. https://ift.tt/8GFk6mn
Monday, March 7, 2022
Launching to Study Pulsating Aurora
The LAMP mission hopes to understand an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and to test a theory on what causes them. https://ift.tt/s8pItSH
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022
Nancy Grace Roman: First Chief Astronomer
In this undated image form the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the first chief astronomer for NASA. https://ift.tt/ROtE8dP
Thursday, March 3, 2022
A View of the Red Planet (in Blue)
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. https://ift.tt/5CJQ9MN
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