Tag: NASA
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Dwarf planet Ceres’ puzzling ‘pyramid’ mountain gets close-up from NASA’s Dawn probe
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The mountain, located in the southern hemisphere, stands 4 miles (6 kilometers) high. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA) NASA’s mission to that other dwarf planet, Ceres, has delivered a fresh…
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Pluto, we have a problem: Some geographical names may not fly on official maps
The heart-shaped area that’s prominent in this New Horizons picture of Pluto is known as Tombaugh Regio. (Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI) Some of the best-known names on Pluto — ranging from the Sputnik plains to the Hillary and Norgay mountains and the dark Cthulhu Regio — may never appear on the International Astronomical Union’s maps,…
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Moon photobombs Earth in amazing video from DSCOVR satellite
The moon passes across Earth’s disk in a July 16 image captured by the DSCOVR satellite from its observation point, a million miles out in space. The Americas and the Pacific Ocean are visible beneath Earth’s cloud cover. Because the moon was moving while DSCOVR acquired the data for this three-filter image, there appears to…
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Seattle’s Museum of Flight to show off Apollo moon rocket parts recovered by Bezos Expeditions
The thrust chamber from an Apollo / Saturn V F-1 rocket engine sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, awaiting recovery. (Credit: Bezos Expeditions) Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to an effort backed…
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Three years after Mars landing, Curiosity rover faces new mysteries
Ashwin Vasavada became the project scientist for NASA’s Curiosity rover mission in January. His role is to coordinate efforts of an international team of nearly 500 scientists. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) Three years after NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars, scientists are celebrating a curious milestone: Although the six-wheeled, plutonium-powered robot has lasted a year…
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Jack King, ‘Voice of NASA,’ dies at 84
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Jack King provided launch countdown commentary for every U.S. human spaceflight mission from Gemini 4 through Apollo 15, with one exception. He is seen here inside the firing room at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center during the countdown for Apollo 12. Credit: NASA John W. “Jack”…
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U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomes 2015 class
Grunsfeld, Lindsey, Rominger and Seddon. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — A proud “Hubble Hugger,” the final commander of shuttle Discovery, the first person to fly a docking to the International Space Station and one of the first U.S. women to join the astronaut ranks were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Veteran…
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NASA taps Boeing for first commercial crew flight to International Space Station
Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100. Photo via Boeing. Boeing will help NASA get back into the business of transporting people to the International Space Station. NASA announced on Wednesday that it has tasked Boeing to fly astronauts to the ISS in 2017, marking its first commercial order for a human spaceflight mission. The “crew rotation mission” is part of…
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NASA selects instruments for Europa mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Taking a major step toward an eventual robotic mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter believed to harbor ice-locked lakes and a vast sub-surface ocean, NASA has selected nine sophisticated instruments for a solar-powered spacecraft designed to find out whether the hidden realm could support life…
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NASA gives more information on its experiment aboard the X-37B
CAPE CANAVERAL — In addition to carrying an Air Force electric propulsion thruster test, a materials research investigation sponsored by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will be flying aboard the X-37B miniature spaceplane later this month. Liftoff is targeted for May 20 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force…