Structural Test Articles for SLS are coming together in Alabama
Pieces are coming together to test the most powerful rocket in the world. To ensure components of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) will be able to handle the forces of flight, structural test articles have been created. Last month, an important test article component...
Deep Space Extra for Thursday, July 7, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The solar system is under increased observation from robotic spacecraft and space telescopes, whose findings are helping to pave the way for future human explorers. Space Science Our vast solar system and its many explorers New York...
Sand ripples on Mars are a window into the planet’s past
New types of sand ripples? A new understanding of Mars’ history. Last week, a report about mid-size sand ripples was published in Science. Through evaluating sand features on Mars, researchers have learned more about the planet’s early atmosphere. Earth and Mars both...
Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, July 6, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Juno operating well and as designed, feeding the desire to explore deep in space. Space Science Now orbiting Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is poised for ‘tantalizing’ data New York Times (7/5): NASA’s Juno...
Welcome to Jupiter!
At 11:18 pm Eastern Time on July 4 (03:18 GMT 5 July) NASA’s Joint Propulsion Laboratory in California and Lockheed Martin’s mission operations control center in Denver, Colorado burst into cheers and applause as the Juno spacecraft signaled it had entered orbit...
Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, July 5, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches Jupiter and brakes into orbit for close-up scrutiny of the solar system’s largest planet. Human Deep Space Exploration Insider exclusive: Precourt talks boosters, bovines and brilliance...
The Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter in three days
Next to Jupiter, Earth is an insignificant speck. The data we have on Jupiter has been supplied by probe flybys, ground-based observations and one orbiter. Until next week. This coming Monday, July 4th, NASA’s Juno mission will arrive at Jupiter. Wonder what’s under...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, July 1, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra…Washington’s National Air and Space Museum to mark 40th anniversary with displays and all night programming that features advances in U.S. space exploration and aviation. Human Deep Space Exploration National Air and Space...
What does 3.6 million pounds of thrust look like?
There will be two of these boosters on NASA’s new rocket, with four more engines powering the core stage. This new rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), will power the human exploration of deep space. On Tuesday, June 28th, the solid rocket booster pictured above...Space Talk
#Spazio, #ESA vs #NASA, #Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri...
Spazio, ESA vs NASA, Aschbacher: “stop a Lunar Gateway e Mars Sample Return perturbano nostri piani”
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How do you know an elephant was in the refrigerator? The footprints in the butter!
@NASARoman will use a similar technique to study neutron stars, essentially invisible crushed cores of former massive stars, relying on their effects on other stars.
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Name a better office view. 🧑🚀🌎
#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4.
WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared! Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/439kDQe
To build on the Moon, we need construction materials that can withstand bitter cold – so @NASAglenn invented a machine that can recreate that environment for testing!
This high-powered refrigerator, or cryocooler, removes heat without using any liquid. https://go.nasa.gov/3PGqIR9
