STS-129 HD Launch
Space shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew began an 11-day delivery flight to the International Space Station on Monday with a 2:28 p.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle will transport spare hardware to the outpost and return a station crew member who spent more than two months in space.
Atlantis is carrying about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space. The large equipment can best be transported using the shuttle's unique capabilities.
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How Do We Launch Things into Space?
You've probably seen beautiful photos of Earth and the other planets in our solar system. Those photos were often captured by spacecraft - - robotic explorers doing their work far away from Earth. But how exactly do we send these spacecraft so far away? Well, it all starts with a rocket. A really, really big one.
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Mars Rock Samples Collected by the Perseverance Rover
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is building a unique rock collection, which also includes samples of Mars atmosphere and loose surface material. These samples record the history of the Jezero Crater landing site, and may even preserve signs of ancient life. Learn more about these precious samples, which Mars Sample Return could deliver to Earth for detailed study in the future.
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Mars Rock Samples Collected by the Perseverance Rover
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is building a unique rock collection, which also includes samples of Mars atmosphere and loose surface material. These samples record the history of the Jezero Crater landing site, and may even preserve signs of ancient life. Learn more about these precious samples, which Mars Sample Return could deliver to Earth for detailed study in the future.
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What's Up: June 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What are some skywatching highlights in June
2023?
Mars and Venus draw closer throughout the month, while Saturn leads Jupiter into the morning sky. Bright stars Spica and Arcturus shine brightly overhead on June evenings, along with the Summer Triangle. And the June solstice, on the 21st, has a special claim to fame.
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What's Up: September 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
What are some skywatching highlights in September 2023?
Venus returns to the early morning skies as a bright beacon in the east. The full moon at the end of the month is known as the Harvest Moon. And if you have access to dark skies away from urban light pollution, you might be able to glimpse the faint, glowing pillar of the zodiacal light
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Launch
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked to the International Space Station at 11:01 p.m. EST Monday, transporting NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission lifted off Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:27 p.m. on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is the first of six certified, crew missions NASA and SpaceX will fly as a part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
The crew will conduct science and maintenance during a six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory and will return in spring 2021. It is scheduled to be the longest human space mission launched from the United States. The Crew Dragon spacecraft is capable of staying in orbit for at least 210 days, as a NASA requirement.
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SpaceX Crew-6 splashdown
The "Endeavour" Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of Florida on 4 September 2023, at 04:17 UTC (00:17 EDT). Crew-6 is SpaceX's fifth operational mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the "Endeavour" Crew Dragon spacecraft transporting NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi to and from the International Space Station.
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Successfully Launched Nov. 26, 2011,
NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26, 2011, launch of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:02 a.m.
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EXPLORATION - Inspirational NASA Space Film
EXPLORATION is an inspirational piece reconnecting history with the present, mainly focussing around the Apollo 11 mission of the late 1960's. Showcasing the passion and drive man has always had to touch the stars. JFK's famous Houston College speech serves as a motivational narration accompanied by my own footage as well as NASA's incredible archive imagery
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What's Up: October 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A "ring of fire" solar eclipse across the Americas on Oct. 14 is this month's top highlight! Plus the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus strike some lovely poses for stargazers and planet watchers
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche to weird metal asteroid, nails landings
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launced NASA's Psyche spacecraft from Pad 39A here at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Oct. 13, 2023. Full Story:
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OSIRIS-REX Tech - Surveying an Asteroid with X-rays
NASAS OSIRIS-REX mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer. The purpose of REXIS is to collect and image fluorescent X-rays emitted by the asteroid, which will
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Our SpaceX Crew-6 mission safely returns to Earth, the tech demo hitching a ride on our Psyche spacecraft, and studying ancient life on Earth to better understand Mars ... a few of the stories to tell you about
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Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft's descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds A Changing Landscape
NASA's Curiosity rover explores Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the basin of Gale Crater on Mars.
Curiosity's Deputy Project Scientist, Abigail Fraeman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, gives viewers a descriptive tour
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Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA's Perseverance Rover
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA's Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the "Séítah" region.
Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley points out highlights in this Martian panorama
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To Bennu and Back: Journey's End
OSIRIS-REX is NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid's surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. Now, two years and four months after leaving Bennu,
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations
Animations for media and public use. This reel depicts key events during entry, descent, and landing that will occur when NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars February 18, 2021. In the span of about seven minutes, the spacecraft slows down from about 12,100 mph (19,500 kph) at the top of the Martian atmosphere to about 2 mph (3 kph)
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission Launches to Touch the Sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun's corona - the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun's atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse. It will gather data that could help answer questions about solar physics that
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