NASA to launch small satellites on future Mars rocket ship
NASA will launch 13 small research satellites with the unmanned Orion deep space explorer craft in the first mission of the new Space Launch System rocket that aims to eventually put humans on Mars, the agency said this week. NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman gave...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, February 4, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 Orion pressure vessel is ready for structural tests and final assembly at the Kennedy Space Center. Human Deep Space Exploration KSC begins assembly of moon-bound Orion capsule Florida Today (2/3):...
The latest on New Horizons
Eight months after its rendezvous with Pluto, the New Horizons probe continues to return incredible data and images of the most famous dwarf planet. Click the links below for the latest news! Night Falls on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon – Discovery...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, February 3, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The inaugural test flight of NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket will introduce 13 CubeSats to deep space while propelling an unpiloted Orion crew capsule around the moon. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA picks tiny...
Orion takes Super Guppy ride to Kennedy Space Center
The future of human spaceflight may be headed into deep space, but first it needed a ride to Florida from the Super Guppy. Now at Kennedy Space Center is the Orion spacecraft pressure vessel, which had been housed at the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. It flew...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, February 2, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Super Guppy air transport delivers the Exploration Mission-1 Orion capsule to the Kennedy Space Center. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s `Super Guppy’ delivers EM-1 Orion to Kennedy Space Center...
#MarsMonday: Images of the Red Planet
Celebrate #MarsMonday with some of our favorite images of the red planet! These selections were taken by the Curiosity rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, February 1, 2016
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Exploration Mission-1 Orion spacecraft ready for Super Guppy flight to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Human Deep Space Exploration NASA’s EM-1 Orion spacecraft ready to ship to Florida Spaceflight Insider (1/30): After...
Orion being put together as next signature American spacecraft
The little spaceship that someday will carry American astronauts back into “real” space – somewhere beyond low-Earth orbit – is making steady progress, with the so-called pressure vessel now fully intact. The pressure vessel is the heart of...Space Talk
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
Did you know the @Space_Station is restocked with food every 60 to 90 days? During these resupply missions, @NASA can send a wide variety of food items including fresh foods, pizza kits, and even real ice cream!
Stop by the NASA exhibit at the Great American State Fair all week
HiRISE 3D: A Possible Eroded Dyke System in Atlantis Chaos
These dykes would be intruding into sediments of probable lacustrine origin, deposited in this basin of the southern cratered highlands.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_092224_1450_ESP_092593_1450_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Joe Engle—age 32—flew the X-15 OTD in 1965 to an altitude of more than 50 miles, qualifying for astronaut wings under the USAF definition.
He was selected to become a NASA astronaut the following year and was the only person to have flown both the X-15 and the Space Shuttle.
@NASAhistory Sorry I don't know this, did I fly the shuttle to space, or did he only fly the pictured Enterprise?
@TNCannuck In addition to flying a few of the Approach and Landing Tests aboard Enterprise, Engle commanded the second shuttle mission (STS-2) aboard Columbia as well as STS-51I aboard Discovery.