Tag: NASA
NASA ‘Planet Hunter’ has launched
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched yesterday on a first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS, expected to find thousands […]
NASA launch scheduled to study ‘Heart of Mars’
NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars, according to a March 29 release from our favorite space agency. NASA detailed the next mission […]
Become a NASA Mission Control Leader: Space agency hiring new Flight Directors
Would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight and be responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make […]
NASA: Moonwalker and pioneer astronaut John Young, dead at 87
Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, passed away on Friday, January 5, at the age of 87 from […]
U.S. sending astronauts to the Moon, Mars ‘and beyond’
On December 11 at the White House, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led, integrated program with private […]
NASA explains Earth’s recent record carbon dioxide spike
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. […]
NASA to televise upcoming International Space Station spacewalks
Three American astronauts currently on board the International Space Station (ISS) will embark on three spacewalks in October. Those spacewalks are necessary to perform needed maintenance to the ISS. NASA […]
Recommended safety tips for viewing Aug. 21 solar eclipse
For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States; and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime […]
NASA providing safety tips and live TV coverage of Aug. 21 solar eclipse
For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States, and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime […]
