SpaceX Dragon Mission Gives U. S. New Cargo Access to the International Space Station
SpaceX’s Falcon 9/Dragon spacecraft lifted off late Sunday on the first of a dozen scheduled commercial re-supply missions to the International Space Station, restoring a U. S. capability lacking since the 2011 retirement of NASA’s space...CSExtra – Friday, October 5, 2012
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the agency’s original Great Observatories and a sibling of the Hubble Space Telescope, enabled astronomers this week to announce a dramatic refinement in the expansion rate of the universe. The new studies...CSExtra – Thursday, October 4, 2012
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MASCOT – the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout – will be bound for asteroid JU 3 in 2014 courtesy of Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission. Four years later, on arrival at the space rock, MASCOT will free-fall onto the asteroid’s surface, automatically orient itself, then “hop” from...CSExtra – Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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NASA’s Curiosity rover, still very early in its two-year search of Gale Crater for evidence of habitable environments, offered strong visual evidence this week that water flowed across the surface of Mars during a warmer earlier period. The findings from...Space Talk
Once the Space Shuttle left orbit, it became a giant unpowered glider. 🚀
No go-around. No second attempt.
It reentered at roughly 28,000 km/h, descended far more steeply than an airliner and touched down near 350 km/h.
There’s a reason it was called “the flying brick.”
#NASA
Spain just went dark in the middle of the day. 🌑☀️
A total solar eclipse transformed daylight into darkness over Tarragona, creating one of nature's most breathtaking spectacles.
Absolutely unreal. Would you want to witness this in person? 🇪🇸✨
#SolarEclipse #Spain #Space
Looking back at #ESASpaceCamp 2026 in #Spain:
We had a very special guest: #ESA #astronaut @Astro_Pablo_ESA ! It was a great pleasure to meet Pablo and show him our #STEMEd activities. And Pablo gave very inspiring talks to all of the 220 kids, of course! Muchas gracias, Pablo!
NASA photographer captures ISS crossing the Sun at 5 miles per second during the #TotalSolarEclipse
What an amazing shot! Only half a second to capture it 📸 #NASA
