NASA Turns to Students for Moon Probe Names
NASA’s twin moon bound Grail spacecraft need imaginative names. U. S students enrolled in K through 12 are likely to have some very creative suggestions, NASA figures. And if that sounds like you, you and your teacher have until Nov 11 to offer a name in...Astronaut Mike Fossum, the International Space Station Commander, Goes 1 on 1 with the Middle School Students at the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference
International Space Station commander Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut, took a series of wide ranging questions from middle school students on Tuesday. The students are participants in the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference at the University of...Apollo Legends Urge Congress to Hasten the Pace of Human Space Exploration
The first and last of the Apollo program astronauts who walked on the moon urged the House Science, Space and Technology Committee on Thursday to ramp up support for NASA’s human exploration efforts. Neil Armstrong, who commanded the July 1969...NASA’s WISE Mission Addresses Dinosaur Extinction
Scientists involved in NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE , mission may have cleared a suspect in what is perhaps one of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. What was the source of the giant asteroid that smacked into the Earth 65...NASA Recognized for Assitance to Trapped Chilean Miners
NASA medical, psychological and engineering experts who leaped to the aide of 33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010 were recognized this week for their contributions to a successful rescue effort with the National Security and International Affairs Medal, an annual award...NASA Unveils Plans for Super Rocket to Launch Explorers on Deep Space Missions
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, flanked by a bi-partisan gathering of Washington lawmakers, unveiled the agency’s heavy lift rocket strategy on Wednesday, a monstrous spacecraft that will eventually eclipse the legendary Saturn V and propel future...NASA’s Offers Shuttle Space Cuisine, Heat Shielding to Schools
As NASA continues to distribute property from the agency’s long running space shuttle program, it is offering surplus food prepared for the astronauts who flew on the winged orbiters and thermal protection tiles that fended off the heat buildup...NASA Moves Forward With International Space Station National Laboratory
NASA has completed negotiations with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, the Florida-based nonprofit group selected by the space agency earlier this year to manage the U. S. National Laboratory segment of the International Space Station. CASIS...A Down to Earth, but A “Mazing” Story: Space Farms!
For the moment, forget crop circles and off-Earth aliens playing havoc with a farmer’s real estate! Here’s a new and more down to Earth space-farm connection. In collaboration with NASA, seven farms across the U.S. will invite the public to get lost in space this...Space Talk
@bonzack You got a hell of a weather week to be here in a suit. Good luck!
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI
Sometimes the messy middle is the best part...
@NASAHubble caught lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 during its transition from a major burst of star formation to a quieter period. Growth doesn't always look linear, but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
https://go.nasa.gov/4dyruaI