Tag: NASA
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Space station trio returns to Earth: NASA’s Peggy Whitson racks up 665-day record
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is helped out of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft just minutes after she and two fellow spacefliers landed in a remote area Kazakhstan. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two other spacefliers capped off a record-setting orbital mission today with their return from the International Space Station. The…
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NASA data relay craft successfully blossoms in space
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA’s new communications satellite, launched to a preliminary orbit August 18, has ascended to geosynchronous altitude more than 22,000 miles up, deployed its giant antennas and extended twin solar arrays to begin in-space commissioning. The $408 million Tracking and Data Relay satellite-M, was successfully lofted to a high-perigee geosynchronous transfer orbit by…
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Johnson Space Center closed as major flooding hits Houston area
The gates to the Johnson Space Center have been closed to all but essential personnel as heavy rains from Tropical Storm Harvey inundate the Houston area. Flight controllers remain at their posts inside the Mission Control Center and continue to monitor the health of the International Space Station as usual. An earlier view of then…
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Elon Musk reveals SpaceX’s spacesuit: ‘This actually works’ … and also looks really cool
The spacesuit designed to be worn aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule turns up the coolness dial for spaceflight, as befits a company that’s a corporate cousin of the Tesla electric-car venture. “Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function,” Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of both companies, said today in a first-look Instagram post. “Easy to…
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NASA science aircraft using Seattle as base during mission to capture first video of eclipse
NASA’s Gulfstream III science aircraft. (NASA Photo / Carla Thomas) The Museum of Flight in Seattle is no stranger to unique aircraft, and Monday’s total solar eclipse is attracting a special plane from NASA which will offer the first glimpse of the rare event off the coast of Oregon as it collects data. NASA’s Gulfstream III…
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Photos: Atlas sends up new NASA satellite
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, a communications router for the space station and dozens of science spacecraft, blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:29 a.m. EDT on Friday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit: United…
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Videos: Replays from successful Atlas 5 launch of TDRS-M
Isolated camera views from various locations around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center show the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifting off with NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. UCS 3 UCS 15 VIF roof Pad camera NASA Causeway VAB roof KSCVC observation gantry Rocketcam staging See earlier TDRS-M launch coverage.
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Atlas 5 rocket delivers NASA data router into space for astronauts and satellites
CAPE CANAVERAL — Bulking up NASA’s constellation of tracking stations in the sky that provides critical links between orbiting spacecraft and ground control, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket successfully deployed a new communications hub in space today. NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite series, a program that revolutionized mission operations for U.S. human…
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Video: TDRS-M takes flight atop Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 191 feet tall and and weighing 745,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M. Video courtesy: NASA TV See earlier TDRS-M launch coverage.
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Video: Atlas/TDRS-M pre-launch news briefing
Watch the pre-launch news conference held Thursday, Aug. 17 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the agency’s TDRS-M data relay satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral. Briefing participants are: * Tim Dunn, NASA launch director * Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and Navigation…