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Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope |
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Watch Amazon Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully land a rocket for the 3rd Time. New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the prop
Date: 2016-04-04 12:48:04
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3-D Printing in Zero Gravity |
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The goal of 3-D printing is to take this capability to microgravity for use on the International Space Station. In space, whatever astronauts have available on orbit is what they have to use -- but just like on Earth, parts break or get lost. When that happens, there's a wait for replacement parts, ...
Date: 2014-07-14 18:04:05
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STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis Rollout to Launchpad 39-A |
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Space Shuttle Atlantis is on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The orbiter made the 3-1/2 mile rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building May 15, 2011. It's final and iconic mission is scheduled for July 2011 with four crew members aboard.
Date: 2011-07-08 00:24:49
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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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NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Mars - Mars Landing Live! |
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached the Red Planet and will go through the final phase known as Entry, Descent and Landing. Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, aboard an ULA’s Atlas V-541 rocket, and will land on Mars at Jezero Crater after travelli
Date: 2021-02-18 18:29:38
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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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Inspiration4 Mission: Everything You Need to Know | TIME |
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The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches this fall. Once that happens, the history of human spaceflight will instantly be divided into two eras. There will have been the six decades after the fir
Date: 2021-08-31 16:58:51
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NASA - Spiders Crawling Over Mars Surface |
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A photo taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appears to show spiders walking across the surface of Mars, but, in this case, things do not always look as they appear.
Date: 2018-08-31 14:03:43
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NASA - Fireworks in Space |
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Scott Kelly and his twin brother, Mark Kelly—also an astronaut—were the subjects of the study that sought to find out exactly what happens to the body after a year in space. Scott stayed on the International Space Station from March 2015 to March 2016, while Mark remained on Earth. This was the fina
Date: 2018-03-12 16:19:59
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