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| Our spacefarers have a very special perspective on "Earth Day." (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Space Station Sunday: 4K Scenes And Machines For Genes
Space Station Sunday: A New Module And A New Movie
Good afternoon, space fans! Here's what was going on a few hundred miles over our heads this week.
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| In the words of esteemed space pirate Han Solo, "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid." (Image courtesy nasa.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Some Landing And Some Expanding
Good afternoon, space fans!
It’s been an amazing week for astro-adventuring. Here’s what was up!
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| The SpaceX Dragon joins the ISS party, and brought one really interesting balloon from Bigelow Aerospace... (Image courtesy spacex.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: From Progress To A Dragon
Good afternoon, space fans! Here's all of this week's news from low earth orbit.
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| Mail call! The Progress cargo ship approaches the ISS. (Image courtesy Jeff Williams / NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: In Cygnus And In Health
Good evening, space fans! It's been another fascinating week for our friends falling through space.
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| Later, they're going to set that whole damn spacecraft on fire. Wait, what? (Image courtesy Jeff Williams / NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: New Crew, And Robot Rovers Too
Good afternoon, space fans! Here's what was up on the ISS this week.
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| Controlled chaos of the coolest sort. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Wins Of The One-Year Crew (Part Two)
Good afternoon, space fans! We're back with another installment on all the space that's fit to chase.
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| One of Scott Kelly's many "Earth Art" photos taken during his time aboard the ISS. This one was captioned, "#Goodnight #Earth! Make me proud." |
Space Station Sunday: Wins Of The One-Year Crew (Part One)
Good afternoon, space fans! It was a historic week for our friends in orbit...here's what was up!
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| The fun part, after all that "plummeting on fire through the atmosphere" stuff. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Super News For Supersonic Flight: NASA's Working On A New Prize For The Skies
It's been an exciting week for aerospace! Yesterday, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned from 340 days on the International Space Station, Virgin Galactic announced their new space plane just a few days previous, and on Monday, the world got a very special Leap Day present indeed: news that a new NASA-commissioned plane could, in a few years, be leaping wide oceans in a single, supersonic bound...
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| SHOTGUN. NASA's on a speculative supersonic spin... (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Three Cheers For The One-Year Crew!
Happy Sunday, space fans! It's been another outstanding week in orbit, and an exciting week ahead. Here's what was up!
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| The One-Year Crew enjoys a few more micro-gravity backflips before they're much more difficult on Earth. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Two Dropoffs Before Next Liftoff
Good afternoon, space fans! What wonders were worked on this week, hundreds of miles above our heads?
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| It's all about solar: the station's solar arrays soak up the rays. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Orbital Business As Usual
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| "Got to see the Super Bowl in person after all! But at 17,500MPH, it didn't last long. #YearInSpace" -Astronaut Scott Kelly |
Space Station Sunday: Extremophiles, An E.V.A., and English Rugby
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| Cosmonauts Malenchenko (left) and Volkov prepare to explore the mysteries just outside their door. (Image courtesy Scott Kelly.) |
Space Station Sunday: Texas, Tech, And A Tribute
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| "The dance of the aurora", captured this week by astronaut Scott Kelly. |
Space Station Sunday: Eyes And A Storm
Good afternoon, space fans! Here's what was up on the ISS last week.
| Celebrating 300 days...space style. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
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| Congratulations, astronaut Kelly and cosmonaut Kornienko! (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Trust The Thrust: SpaceX Dragon 2 Is One Step Closer To Mankind's Giant Leap Into Space
SpaceX has had many ups and downs (literally) in its quest for sustainable rocketry, but with every test flight, they are inching closer to the goal of having an updated, manned spacecraft to explore the cosmos with (or at least make manned trips to the ISS.) Now, we've learned that this mission has continued apace...
| A DragonFly test vehicle throws down with its thrusters during flight tests of the new system. (Image courtesy nasaspaceflight.com,) |
Space Station Sunday: Floating In A Most Peculiar Way
Good afternoon, space fans! Welcome back to all the most awesome information from orbit.
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| Hallo, spaceboy! Astronaut Tim Peake kept his cool during his debut spacewalk. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Moonage Daydream: Is Audi Backing The Next Successful Moon Rover?
It's 2016 and we've only progressed a little bit more into the future, but the prospect of space travel is always pushing further forward. For instance, one of the better car companies of past and modern times is now helping a team of scientists plot how to put a rover on the moon...you know, for the future.
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| It's more R2-D2 than R8, but that's still cool. (Image courtesy theverge.com.) |
Space Station Sunday: Spacewalk Specs And Science
Happy Sunday, space fans! Here's what was up on the International Space Station this week.
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| New year, new gear: astronaut Tim Kopra on a spacewalk in December. Kopra and astronaut Tim Peake will head outside again this week for some new gear installation and maintenance. (Image courtesy NASA.gov.) |
Space Station Sunday: Happy Sixteen New Years!
Happy 2016, space fans! It's looking like it'll be another great year for science, progress, and adventure aboard the ISS. Let's see what's up...
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| The Rocky Mountains look like serene snowdrifts from space. Fortunately no one has to worry about digging out the car in bad weather up there. (Image courtesy Scott Kelly.) |
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