NASA.gov — About a hundred miles off the coast of San Diego, in the Pacific Ocean, a U.S. Navy ship’s well deck filled with water as underway recovery operations began Feb. 18 on a test version of NASA’s Orion crew module to prepare for its first mission, Exploration Flight Test-1, in September. Orion was undocked from its cradle and allowed to float out to sea. […]
Tonight, a near-Earth asteroid, 2000 EM26, with an estimated diameter of three football fields and traveling at approximately 27,000 mph, will come racing by Earth on its close approach. […]
SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk says that the U.S. must regain its ability to launch humans into space in order to effectively further its space exploration prospects. […]
One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere, exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and releasing more energy than a large atomic bomb. […]
This week’s “Space to Ground” web series, available every Friday, highlights the launch of the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station and features a short wrap-up of the week’s diverse activities taking place aboard the world’s only orbiting laboratory. […]
The crawler-transporter that will carry NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B for launch on Exploration Mission-1 in 2017 recently passed the first phase of an important milestone test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
Trying to get up to speed on what’s been going on at Kennedy for the last month, check out Kennedy Now. […]
Clouds associated with the major winter storm that is bringing wintry precipitation and chilly temperatures to the U.S. south is the focus in an image from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite today, February 11 at 1815 UTC/1:15 p.m. EST. […]
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The 2014 Winter Olympic ski runs may be rated double black diamond, but they’re not quite as steep as they appear in this image of the skiing and snowboarding sites for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. […]
NASA’s Space to Ground is your weekly update on what’s happening aboard the International Space Station. […]
In partnership with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, Inc., theBrevard Symphony Orchestra will make history by presenting the first-ever symphonic concert under a space shuttle. […]
