Media in category space exploration:
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Mars in a Minute: How Do You Get to Mars? |
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What does it take to get a spacecraft to Mars? This 60-second video covers a few key things to remember when planning a trip to the Red Planet.
Date: 2012-08-02 15:06:49 |
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Sally Ride Remembers Her Shuttle Flight |
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The first American woman in Space talks about her historic flight on NASA's 50th anniversary. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 on the STS-7 mission.
Date: 2012-07-24 16:11:51 |
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Sally Ride's Space Travel : June 18, 1983 |
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Twenty-seven years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman in
space on Jun 18, 1983. She accomplished this historic milestone when
she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger as a mission specialist for
the six-day STS-7 mission. Ride, a southern California native, was also
a mission specia...
Date: 2012-07-18 16:14:20 |
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B612 Foundation Sentinel Mission |
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The non-profit B612 Foundation aims to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission—a space telescope in orbit around the Sun that will map the inner Solar System in search of asteroids that could impact Earth.
Date: 2012-06-29 15:58:57 |
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How the Sentinel Telescope Works |
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Sentinel is a space-based infrared (IR) survey mission to discover and catalog 90 percent of the asteroids larger than 140 meters in Earth’s region of the solar system. The mission should also discover a significant number of smaller asteroids down to a diameter of 30 meters. Sentinel will be launch
Date: 2012-06-28 17:34:57 |
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Danger of Asteroids |
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Asteroids are a scientific and economic opportunity in that they contain the original building blocks of the Solar System. They are targets for future human exploration, and may contain valuable raw materials for mining. These asteroids are also a threat in that they can pose great risk to humanity ...
Date: 2012-06-28 17:30:56 |
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NASA: Probe Habitat of Monster Black Hole |
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A mysterious and intense X-ray source near the black hole shines onto the surface layers of the accretion disk, causing iron atoms to radiate characteristic emission -- what astronomers call the iron K line -- at about 6,000 to 7,000 electron volts. The inner part of the disk is orbiting the black h...
Date: 2012-05-31 16:10:59 |
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Dragon Grappled and Berthed to Station |
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The SpaceX Dragon capsule is grappled and berthed to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmony module at 12:02 p.m. EDT, May 25, 2012.
Date: 2012-05-29 22:28:37 |
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Super Moon : May 2012 |
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"It is called a supermoon because this is a very noticeable alignment," Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement accompanying a new video on the topic. "The 'super' in supermoon is really just the appearance of being closer."
For the best view, ...
Date: 2012-05-06 15:05:07 |
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