Look at detailed imagery of the Martian surface with Mars Trek
Have you seen NASA’s Mars Trek? Mars Trek is a free, web-based application that provides high-quality, detailed visualizations of the planet using real data from 50 years of NASA exploration and allowing astronomers, citizen scientists and students to study the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, August 10, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft raise a crater mystery at giant asteroid Ceres. Engineers overcome navigation challenges to guide New...
Orion, Dragon and CST-100
Orion is America’s next generation deep-space exploration vehicle, and will be deployed along with a fleet of other new spacecraft from NASA’s partners. New vehicles from Boeing and SpaceX will be transporting our astronauts to and from the ISS in the very...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, August 7, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The National Research Council presses NASA for a response to a year-old assessment of the agency’s human deep space exploration strategy,...
The 19th shuttle mission landed on this day in 1985
On this day in 1985, the 19th flight of the Space Shuttle program, STS-51-F, landed at Edwards Air Force Base. STS-51-F was unique for two reasons: it delivered Spacelab 2 to orbit, and it was the only Space Shuttle mission to have performed an abort after launching,...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, August 6, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Martian, fictional best seller and soon-to-open feature film, signals a new enthusiasm for the challenges of human space exploration, say...
Learn more about SLS propulsion in today’s Tweet Chat with NASA
NASA will be hosting a Tweet Chat today at 2:30 p.m. Central/3:30 p.m. Eastern with propulsion engineers Kathryn Crowe and Tim Duquette on the engineering behind the RS-25 engines–the workhorses in SLS’s core stage. As the most powerful rocket ever built,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Saturn V rocket components recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and restored are ready for museum display. Mars One proponents and doubter will...
16 years of Chandra images
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe, has been revealing the msyteries of the universe for 16 years now. One of the Great Observatories, Chandra was carried to space in the payload bay of...Space Talk
@mars_stu @NASAJPL @NASAMars They'll be downlinked when the spacecraft is able to re-point to Earth following its science observations. Will begin likely NET later this evening US time, and take place over a few days.
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/
How do planets form? Tiny grains of dust orbiting a newborn star collide, grow, and eventually build entire worlds. ✨🪐
A NASA scientist explains how planets like Earth came to be: https://youtu.be/1A_73j71WkE?si=ipv2g9uW0__rT5nV
