NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will speak to elementary school students about the future of space exploration Monday, May 9, and tour a lab working on robotic construction technologies Tuesday, May 10, during a trip to Florida.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Splashes Down
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with NASA and ESA astronauts on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Read MoreThis Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 6 – 14
The Moon aligns with Pollux and Castor – but how precisely for you? Three zero-magnitude stars form a far-flung spring triad. And with Libra and Bootes up, the two oldest things you will ever see await your binoculars or scope. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 6 – 14 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreCrew-3 astronauts on SpaceX ‘Endurance’ splash down from space station
Descending under parachutes into the Gulf of Mexico, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule “Endurance” brought four astronauts back from the International Space Station after an almost six-month stay. Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, all of NASA, and Matthias Maurer with the European Space Agency (ESA) splashed down Friday (May 6) at 12:43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT). The landing, off the coast of Tampa, Florida, signaled the end of the Crew-3 mission, 176 days after it began. “Thanks for letting us take Endurance on its shakedown cruise. Looking forward to watching…
Read MoreNASA, ESA Astronauts Safely Return to Earth
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft safely splashed down Friday in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, completing the agency’s third long-duration commercial crew mission to the International Space Station.
Read MoreNASA will try again to fuel Artemis 1 moon rocket in June as launch slips to August
NASA will take its fourth crack at fueling up its Artemis 1 moon rocket in June that, if all goes according to plan, could set the stage for its first launch in August. The Artemis 1 stack — a huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with an Orion crew capsule on top — rolled out to Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in mid-March for its “wet dress rehearsal,” a crucial series of tests that includes fueling up the SLS. The wet dress began on April…
Read MoreDark Energy Camera spies ‘galactic ballet’ of galaxies in stunning space photo
This image shows a wider view of the interacting galaxies NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 as seen by the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile operated by the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab. (Image credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) One of the most powerful cameras in the world just photographed two distant galaxies entwined in what’s been described as a “galactic ballet.” Part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), the Dark Energy Camera on the…
Read MoreNASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 25th Cargo Launch to Space Station
Media accreditation is now open for SpaceX’s 25th cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station.
Read MoreNASA Thanks Educators for Launching Students’ Love of Space, Science
Alejandro Mundo, a teacher at Kingsbridge International High School in the Bronx borough of New York City, remembers gazing up into the night sky as a child and being filled with curiosity.
Read MoreNASA to Discuss Webb Telescope Alignment, Instrument Setup
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 9, to discuss progress toward preparing the James Webb Space Telescope for science operations.
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