Flash: NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Sees Lightning On Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured images of lightning on Saturn. The images have allowed scientists to create the first movie showing lightning flashing on another planet.Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Returns to Earth after Fortifying International Space Station Science
Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a 9:08 a.m. EDT landing Tuesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA’s Space Shuttle Crew in Washington, Available for Interviews
NASA Headquarters in Washington will welcome space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-130 astronauts for a visit from Tuesday, April 20, through Friday, April 23.NASA Selects Community College Scholars For Chance To Design Space Rovers, Visit Johnson Space Center
Community college students have been selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, May 20-22, for an out-of-this-world experience.NASA, Newseum to Debut Images from Unique Solar Spacecraft
NASA will hold a news briefing and unveil initial images from the Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 21, in the atrium of the Newseum.NASA’s Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad, Liftoff Practice Set
Journalists are invited to cover the STS-132 space shuttle crew’s Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, a practice countdown and related training, April 20-23 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA Extends Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Contract
NASA has exercised an option to extend the period of performance of the contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for the Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Center.Space Shuttle Crew Set to Return to Earth Monday
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew are expected to return to Earth on Monday, April 19, after a 14-day mission.NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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