Cassini-Huygens landed on Titan 11 years ago today
On this day in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens Probe successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan. After being released from Cassini on Christmas day, 2004, the Huygens probe entered Titan’s atmosphere on January 14th and landed on the surface almost three hours...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, January 14, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA engineers wrapped up a development round of drop tests for the Orion capsule’s parachute recovery system on Wednesday. NASA’s...
Second SLS Test Stand Begins Rise at NASA Marshall
A crane moves the first steel tier to be bolted into place on Jan. 6, for welding of a second new structural test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama – critical to development of NASA’s Space Launch System. When...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Mercury astronaut John Glenn, the first American to circle the Earth nearly 54 years ago, demonstrated the potential of human space...
Six Orion Milestones to Track in 2016
This year, engineers will make important progress developing and testing the Orion spacecraft that will send astronauts to deep space destinations on the journey to Mars. NASA will mark critical steps necessary in preparation for both the spacecraft’s first...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Singer/composer David Bowie, who died at 69, draws space community tributes. Orbital ATK engineers explain changes to the shuttle solid rocket...
Where on Mars Might Humans First Land?
NASA is working hard to develop the technologies astronauts will use to one day live and work on Mars, and return safely home. While there is much work ahead on the pioneering journey to Mars, one has to wonder: Where exactly will humans first land? This question was...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, January 11, 2016
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Martian captures two Golden Globe awards. NASA human exploration and planetary science initiatives emerge well-funded from the...
First Work Platform for NASA’s Space Launch System Installed
The first of ten work platforms that will provide access to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been installed inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When the SLS arrives at Kennedy for processing...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
#Mars #NASA
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.