The Next Giant Leap
What are the next steps in space exploration? Scientists and engineers are making steps every day towards the future of space exploration.Atlantis Exhibit Makes Weekend Debut
Orbiter Atlantis, a veteran of 33 NASA shuttle missions, goes on public display in Central Florida on Saturday as the centerpiece of a $100 million Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex exhibit. More than 40 astronauts, including NASA Administrator...2014 NASA Budget Starts Ambitious Asteroid Mission
President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...Congress Ponders Space Leadership Provision
Congress is considering some substantial changes in the way NASA is led, managed from the outside and funded, as policy makers attempt to give the nation’s civil space program a sharper focus as well as the stability to ensure the sustained...NASA’s Orion Available for Public Viewing in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama
A test version of NASA’s Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle will go on public display in the coming weeks as it is transported from White Sands, N. M., to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., The spacecraft that NASA has chosen to...Humans in Space: A Look Back at 2011, A Look Ahead at 2012
A year of milestones in human spaceflight, some tinged with nostalgia, is drawing to a close. The New Year opens with the U. S.and its global partners settled in Earth orbit, and a NASA strategy for the future human exploration of deep space starting to gel. In...Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration – New Exhibit Opens!
Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration opens today, organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The just-opened exhibit launches visitors into the exciting future of space exploration as it boldly examines humanity’s next steps “out...NASA seeks more “Right Stuff”
NASA needs new astronauts, and the competition for up to 15 opening is underway. As of Friday, 400 people had applied for a chance to “fly NASA” as a future astronaut assigned to a tour of duty aboard the International Space Station or a mission...NASA Will Recruit More Astronauts
NASA will formally seek astronaut applicants in November, with plans to hire its first post-shuttle era class in 2013 and start their training regime in August of that year. The agency did not say how many new astronauts it intends to hire in an announcement...Space Talk
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#BlueOrigin is eyeing the launch of an uncrewed lander to the Moon within the next 12–16 months. The launch is to demonstrate #MK1's capabilities, which include the ability to deliver up to three tons of payload anywhere on the #Moon.
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.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/49Hko0r #SpaceExploration
#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bWYvvP #BeAnAstronaut
The @NASA astronaut selection window is open! #ArtemisGeneration #BeAnAstronaut