Lunar Eclipse Thrills
The full lunar eclipse of Monday night and early Tuesday was spectacular, according to eye witness accounts gathered by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and others. “Was spectacular,” said one witness from the Dominican Republic who participated...Meteorite Hunters: On the Ice!
A team of newly arrived rock hounds are on the ice! They are researchers taking part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Their job during the 2010-2011 field season is to recover meteorite samples from the Antarctic. ANSMET field work has been...NASA to Host Live Web Programming to Accompany Spectacular Lunar Eclipse Late Monday/Early Tuesday
North America is in for a celestial treat late Monday and early Tuesday, Dec. 20-21, as the moon enters a full eclipse. The overnight event starts at 12:29 a.m., EST, which is 5:29 UTC. That’s when the Earth’s shadow begins to fall across the lunar...American, Russian and Italian Dock with International Space Station
A multi-national crew of astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Friday, restoring the number of men and woman living aboard the orbiting laboratory to six. NASA’s Catherine Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev of Russia and European Space Agency...Citizen Call: Join the Planet Hunters
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...New Software Tool: Online Exploration of the Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...NASA’s Voyager 1: Reality Check on Solar Wind Speed
Launched back in 1977, the 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1continues, chalking up another milestone. The spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where...Environmental Researcher Appointed NASA Chief Scientist
Soon, NASA will have its first chief science officer in five years. Waleed Abdalati, director of the University of Colorado’s Earth Science and Observation Center, will take the NASA post, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati, a 10-year NASA veteran will serve as a top...Japan’s Venus Orbiter: Not Injected into Planned Orbit
Japan’s Venus orbiter — the AKATSUKI spacecraft — has failed to reach an intended orbit insertion around the veiled planet. Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the planned December 7 injection into Venus orbit was...Space Talk
A mysterious 1,000-mile cloud stretching across Mars could hold clues to physics we’ve never observed on Earth. 🔴🚀 The Red Planet continues to surprise scientists, revealing that there’s still so much to discover about our cosmic neighbor. 🌌
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NASA has revised its Moon landing plan, with SpaceX and Blue Origin set to test their lunar lander technologies in Earth orbit in 2027, ahead of a targeted crewed Moon landing in 2028. 🌕🚀
Who will take humans back to the Moon first? #NASA #SpaceX #BlueOrigin
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For believing when we share that all humans have the same thing at their core: a need to feel love."
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NASA building a moon base and landing astronauts soon. They are working quickly to achieve this goal, similar to Apollo's urgency during the 1960s space mission. The aim is to have a moon base and return astronauts to the lunar surface within two years. #NASA #Apollo
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