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This illustration depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission, targeted for launch in July/August 2020, takes the next step by not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, but also searching for signs of past microbial life itself. via NASA ift.tt/2q7Qktb
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The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station. The final space shuttle mission, STS-135, ended July 21, 2011 when Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Protected by the Mobile Service Tower, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready for the launch of NASA's Landsat on Monday morning at 10:02am Pacific.
Late Friday night, 40 high school girls arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a STEM-themed sleepover, ready to learn about careers in Science, technology, engineering and math. The educational event offered young women a chance to meet working female scientists and to discover opportunities for women in STEM-related professions.
The teens kicked off the third annual STEM Girls Night In with an astronaut Q&A, talks from female scientists across disciplines and a collection of hands-on activities. The night culminated in a three-hour Mars rover competition and concluded with a late-night showing of “Hidden Figures.”
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Jessica Koynock
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Title: Nasa Test Pilot
Catalog #: 08_01737
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Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Quang-Viet Nguyen, Ph.D., DSCOVR Program Executive, NASA Headquarters
Quang-Viet (Viet) Nguyen is DSCOVR Program Executive in the Joint Agency Satellite Division (JASD). He joined the Division in 2010, assisting the JASD Director in leading the overall management of reimbursable spacecraft missions and spacecraft instrument developments.
In addition to DSCOVR, Viet is currently responsible for several other missions including the Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) on the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft, the Solar Irradiance Data and Rescue (SIDAR) project which includes the Total and Spectral Irradiance Sensors (TSIS) instrument on the International Space Station, and the Total solar irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE) currently flying on the Air Force’s STPSat-3 spacecraft.
Viet has served as the Chief of the Space Environment and Experiments branch at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he led a team of researchers in the development and testing of advanced spacecraft materials for use in Earth orbit and planetary applications with a focus on durability and longevity. Before being selected as Branch Chief in 2008, Viet led research on advanced laser diagnostics for the Aeronautics Mission Directorate.
Viet received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Views from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's open house, Explore@NASA Goddard, on May 14, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
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Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk, in which Kopra and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly successfully moved the International Space Station's mobile transporter rail car ahead of Wednesday's docking of a Russian cargo supply spacecraft. via NASA ift.tt/1S8leHF
The Rosette Nebula is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers -- but it is the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros, some 5,000 light years away, the petals of this rose are actually a stellar nursery whose lovely, symmetric shape is sculpted by the winds and radiation from its central cluster of hot young stars. The stars in the energetic cluster, cataloged as NGC 2244, are only a few million years old, while the central cavity in the Rosette Nebula, cataloged as NGC 2237, is about 50 light-years in diameter. The nebula can be seen firsthand with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). via NASA ift.tt/1Bq8g1Q
Remains of what'd once been a chain gate across the access road, thankfully long-gone! In the 1970s, a locked chain here was the only feature to stop unauthorized vehicles from driving up to the site.
Other than 'tourists' like me, most people driving on this road would be radio technicians coming to or from the microwave & land mobile radio repeater sites on an adjacent peak that shares the same access road, and those users are the ones to thank for the occasional road grading that must take place.
En direct de l'île de la Nasa sur SL : Liftoff of Space shuttle Discovery launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. via NASA December 29, 2017
On Oct. 7, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (pictured here) and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst completed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station. The spacewalkers worked outside the space station's Quest airlock for 6 hours and 13 minutes, relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment. Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA operated the Canadian robotic arm, maneuvered Gerst during the course of the spacewalk and served as the spacewalk coordinator. A second U.S. spacewalk is set for Oct. 15. Wilmore will don a U.S. spacesuit and follow Wiseman outside the Quest airlock for a 6-1/2 hour excursion. Gerst will serve as the spacewalk choreographer. The goal of the excursion is to replace a failed voltage regulator component on the starboard truss of the station. They will also move external camera equipment in advance of a major reconfiguration of station modules next year for the arrival of new docking adapters for commercial crew vehicles. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst via NASA ift.tt/1sePzrB
Believed to have been the very first NASA structure installed at what is now Stennis Space Center, this 30 foot tall, 12 by 12 foot wide acoustical horn was brought to the facility from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1962, where it had been in use for two years. It was installed at a former residence two miles northeast of Gainesville.
The horn was used to study sound propagation in the vicinity of the center, and marked the beginning of what was to become a sophisticated atmospheric sounding station. Acoustic readings were taken during the horn’s operational life using trucks with microphones, and between 1962 and 1965 there were 2,575 observations taken using the horn.
This work was undertaken in order to ensure that the sound levels which were expected to be generated by static firing of rocket engines would not be harmful or inconvenient to surrounding residents, and it was based on the findings that the buffer zone has been maintained at its original size
As NASA missions to Mars progress with science and complex human exploration missions, spacecraft will require larger heat shields to protect against the extreme heat of entering a planet's atmosphere and decelerating at a safe altitude in the thin Martian atmosphere. via NASA ift.tt/1FRPRxG
NACA/NASA used Redstone missiles as launch vehicles in the early stages of its manned and unmanned space programs. A similar Jupiter-C/Redstone rocket stands in the Warren town square.
A comet has brightened quickly and unexpectedly. Discovered last year, Comet C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) is expected to be visible now for a few days to the unaided eye, just after sunset, from some locations. The comet rounded the Sun on July 6 and apparently has shed quite a bit of gas and dust. Today it is now as close as it will ever get to the Earth, which is another factor in its recent great apparent brightness and the large angular extent of its tails. In the featured image taken two days ago, Comet PanSTARRS is seen sporting a short white dust tail fading to the right, and a long blue ion tail pointing away from the recently set Sun. A crescent moon dominates the image center. Tomorrow, Comet PannSTARRS will pass only 7 degrees away from a bright Jupiter, with even brighter Venus nearby. Due to its proximity to the Sun, the comet and its tails may best be seen in the sunset din with binoculars or cameras using long-duration exposures. via NASA ift.tt/1GuFMQv
Tracking Space Shuttle Discovery and The Station etc.
Discovery and The Station will get together in Day 3.
science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html
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