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Category Archives: NASA
Hubble Space Telescope 20 Years
NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24th, 1990. Since then we’ve discovered things that we never even imagined, and seen light from distant galaxies and stars billions of years old.
Named for groundbreaking astronomer Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers prove the existence of black holes, dark energy, and defined the age of the universe.
NASA celebrates 20 years of amazing astronomical discoveries with the Hubble Space Telescope with an interactive showcase of incredible images of our universe.
NASA has also announced the extension of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations Contract through April [...]
40th Anniversary Earth Day
Earth Day reaches it’s 40th anniversary. The annual celebration of our environment began in 1970. Here’s the top green stories and stunning images of earth from space…
NASA Celebrates Earth Day with photographs of planet Earth in an amazing slide show.
50 Green Tips for Earth Day on climate.weather.com
See human footprint from space on earthsky.org
40 years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity; an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for [...]
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Tagged Earth Day, Earth Observatory, Geostationary Satellites, GOES East Satellite, Green Tips
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Space Shuttle Discovery Comes Home
Space shuttle Discovery has landed at the Kennedy Space Center after transporting it’s seven astronauts more than six million miles. The crew claimed a successful mission during a post flight press conference, even after facing the challenge of a stuck pressure valve on a replacement tank.
Discovery returned from mission STS-131 to the International Space Station, where the crew delivered more than seven tons of equipment and supplies. During the ten day mission, astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson executed three spacewalks, installed a 1,700-pound ammonia tank assembly on the station’s exterior, replaced a rate gyro assembly, and retrieved [...]
Cloudy Skies Thwart Two Shuttle Landing Attempts : Discovery News
Cloudy Skies Thwart Two Shuttle Landing Attempts : Discovery News
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Tagged Cape Kennedy, Discovery, Discovery Channel, Discovery News, Space Shuttle
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Discovery Departs International Space Station
The crew of Space Shuttle Discovery have said goodbye to the International Space Station. The STS-131 mission draws to a close as Discovery makes her way back home, with over three tons of used equipment from the space station. The space shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning.
Only three more shuttle missions remain in the space program. U.S. astronauts will then be riding with the Russian cosmonauts to get back and forth from the International Space Station. Let’s just hope private aerospace engineers and companies will be able to carry [...]
Posted in NASA, Space Exploration, Video
Tagged Discovery, NASA TV, Space Shuttle, STS-131
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Anniversary of Apollo 13
It was forty years ago when the Apollo 13 moon mission became what history calls “NASA’s most successful failure.”
The newspapers hardly mentioned the Apollo 13 flight, as NASA missions had become routine as far as the media was concerned. The headlines in April 1970 were more about the Vietnam war and the breakup of The Beatles.
The three man Apollo 13 crew had to abandon their moon mission on April 13th when an explosion ruptured the Service Module, when one of their three liquid oxygen tanks exploded. The moon mission immediately turned into a rescue mission. [...]
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Tagged Apollo 13, Command Module, Fred W. Haise, James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, Lunar Module, Service Module
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STS-131 Mission Update from the ISS
Space Shuttle Discovery is docked at the International Space Station, with astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson spending their fifth day in space working outside the ISS.
They’ve retrieved a science experiment on the Japanese Kibo Laboratory, replaced a rate gyro assembly on the center segment of the station’s truss, and removed an ammonia tank used to help cool the station.
The accuracy and co-ordination between the astronauts while working in space is amazing. Imagine floating weightless in space for six-and-a-half-hours, while orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles an hour. Often they have to use the grappling robotic arm from [...]
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-131 Mission Update
Space Shuttle Discovery began mission STS-131 with it’s seven-member crew, as they headed to the International Space Station. There’s only a few shuttle flights left, before the fleet is grounded for good.
Liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center took place at 6:21 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 5th.
Here is the video of the lift-off on NASA TV’s YouTube Channel.
Mission STS-131 Press Kit
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-131
Space Shuttle Discovery is set to lift-off tomorrow morning at 6:21 AM EDT on mission STS-131.
Follow NASA’s Launch Blog beginning at 1:15 AM.
Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot Jim Dutton, Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki will execute the 33rd shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
Discovery will carry a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks for the laboratories aboard the ISS. The mission has three planned spacewalks, with work to include replacing an ammonia tank assembly, retrieving a Japanese experiment from the station’s exterior, and switching out a rate gyro assembly [...]
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Tagged Discovery, International Space Station, ISS, Launch Blog, NASA TV, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Spacewalk, STS-131
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Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130
Space Shuttle Endeavour has completed it’s latest mission, STS-130, and has safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center. It’s one of the few remaining shuttle flights left in NASA’s aging fleet of space vehicles.
The International Space Station is 98 percent complete, following NASA’s last big construction project, known as the Tranquility connecting node and cupola. The project added a new room and observation deck to the space station, giving the ISS crew a 360 degree view of earth through it’s seven windows.
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Nicholas Patrick conducted three spacewalks for a total of eighteen hours [...]