Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Partly Cloudy tomorrow!



With a high of 88F and a low of 61F.

Orion, Earth, and the Moon


In this image, Orion captures a unique view of Earth and the Moon, seen from a camera mounted on one of the spacecraft's solar arrays. https://ift.tt/aHx2ysU

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Mostly Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 61F.

Orion Approaches Moon for Outbound Powered Flyby


A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21, the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. https://ift.tt/giTRm7h

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I


Snoopy, the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis I flight test, floating in space Nov. 20, 2022, while attached to his tether in the Orion spacecraft. https://ift.tt/OmCb6QX

Partly Cloudy tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 65F.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Orion’s Optical Navigation Camera Captures Earth


NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft snapped this black and white photo of Earth on Nov. 17, 2022, the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission. https://ift.tt/qtXJl2T

Partly Cloudy tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 65F.

Monday, November 21, 2022

Orion Approaches Moon


On Nov. 20, the fifth day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera mounted on the tip of one of Orion’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon as it continued to grow nearer to our lunar neighbor. https://ift.tt/5OlkE7c

Mostly Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 87F and a low of 65F.

Friday, November 18, 2022

Hubble Views a Billowing Cosmic Cloud


A small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. https://ift.tt/QvpL8uw

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 85F and a low of 58F.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

First Nations Launch Teams Build Rockets


Stephanie Yazzie, Northern Arizona University student and NAU Space Jacks team member, poses with her team’s rocket in this photo from the 2019 NASA First Nations Launch (FNL) competition. https://ift.tt/ti8UBMP

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 86F and a low of 59F.

We Are Going: Artemis I Launches


Our Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST. https://ift.tt/2r7BcuA

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 87F and a low of 61F.

Moonlit Launch Preparations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center


The Moon is seen rising above NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/q7Ckh1x

Monday, November 14, 2022

Liftoff! Successful Launch for JPSS-2, LOFTID


The Moon makes a stunning backdrop for the successful launch of the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and our Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. https://ift.tt/xWs5N83

Mostly Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 90F and a low of 64F.

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Jerry C. Elliott


Jerry Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. https://ift.tt/oZpvhs0

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 63F.

Astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines Study Farming in Space


In this image from June 24, 2022, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines work on the XROOTS space botany investigation, which used the International Space Station’s (ISS) Veggie facility to test soilless hydroponic and aeroponic methods to grow plants. https://ift.tt/3yoWYmH

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center


This composite made from ten images shows the progression of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building, Nov. 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/NSbZXmq

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 63F.

Monday, November 7, 2022

Artemis I Glows After Sunset


NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard was seen lit by spotlights atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continued Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://ift.tt/ldNBCUe

Mostly Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 65F.

Friday, November 4, 2022

Thumbs Up from NASA Astronaut Nicole A. Mann


Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. https://ift.tt/QCvZHeY

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 64F.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

NASA ABoVE Team Studies Thawing Permafrost, Lakes


Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Earth’s far northern regions and how those changes are intertwined. https://ift.tt/6WXUY7H

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 89F and a low of 64F.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Stress Testing Super Hornet’s Wings


Teams at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. https://ift.tt/KGZlHxJ

Sunny tomorrow!



With a high of 88F and a low of 63F.

Grinning Gourd Decorates Milky Way


While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. https://ift.tt/r7JoXF5