Launching Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic has followed through with their ambitious goal to launch their SpaceShipTwo vehicle into space before Christmas. Today, the aerospace company successfully launched four NASA-supported technologies and two...
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Combing through data from the Parker Solar Probe’s first sunny encounter, NASA scientists found one hell of a photo. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 11, the robotic spacecraft sped through the Sun’s outer […]
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has already provided us with plenty of news since its launch back in August. It's gotten closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it and broken speed records along the way, and all of this was before it actually began...
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As expected, tropical cyclone Owen recently intensified as it moved over the Gulf of Carpentaria and NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's GPM core satellite found very heavy rainfall occurring within the revived storm. The storm has...
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The Red-Planet-probing spacecraft is on course to deploy its instruments in early 2019
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The mission of NASA's Parker Solar Probe is to help us answer some major questions we have about the sun, and to do that, it's getting closer to the sun, or any star, than a spacecraft has ever been. Between October 31st and November 11th,...
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Next time you can't find the perfect angle for your selfie, just thank the universe you're not NASA's InSight lander. The spacecraft had to take 11 images with a camera attached to its robotic arm and then stitch them together to...
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A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will separate from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselage carrier aircraft and continue its rocket-powered test flight.
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The 2019 calendar is full of major events in spaceflight, planetary science, and astronomy.
SpaceX and Boeing hope to launch NASA astronauts inside commercial spaceships for the first time next year.
Elon Musk may also conduct a test launch of his...
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The NBA star spun his moon landing hoax comments into a lesson for the kids: “I am going to educate myself firsthand on everything that NASA has done.”
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry says he was just joking when he said that...
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NASA Head Jim Bridenstine Claps Back At Curry, TMZ
"Enter Bridenstine ... who says Curry's claim is so outrageous -- the point guard just cannot be serious. "I think it's funny," Jim tells us ... "I can't imagine he really believes that. It's out
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The Parker Solar Probe zips down the sun's boulevard and asks, "Are you ready for your close-up?"
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Seems like NBA star Steph Curry didn’t believe in the giant leap for mankind. The Golden State Warrior sparked a flood of questions on Twitter (and provoked the ire of science teachers everywhere) […]
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When it comes to robots on Mars, one of NASA's many traditions is making sure its rovers snap a selfie or two while hanging out on the planet's dusty surface. That tradition has continued with the newly-landed InSight lander, and NASA just published...
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It’s been just over a month since Rocket Lab’s inaugural (and long-delayed) commercial launch, “It’s Business Time,” and it’s about to take another customer to space: NASA. Tonight’s 8PM scheduled launch...
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NASA has awarded a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton of Houston to provide independent programmatic and institutional assessment capabilities at the agency’s Johnson Space Center, also in Houston.
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NASA has selected Analytical Mechanics Associates in Hampton, Virginia, and New Horizons Aeronautics in Chantilly, Virginia, to perform engineering and technical support services (ETSS) for the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter’s system for nearly 2.5 years. Originally slated to come to an end in mid-July after the space probe’s 13th flyby of the gas giant, the mission received a much-welcomed extension...
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An infrared look by NASA's Aqua satellite found intense storms around the center of the recently revived Tropical Cyclone Owen.
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NASA's InSight lander used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie -- a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping pictures are taken and later...
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