Tag: NASA
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‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye is back with new series, explaining NASA’s mission to Jupiter
If you want to know about Earth’s next visitor to Jupiter, a familiar face with a familiar bow tie is here to help. That’s right, Bill Nye is back talking science (now that he’s been booted from Dancing with the Stars) to explain what NASA’s up to with its Juno mission to Jupiter. The probe,…
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McAlister Discusses Commercial Crew Certification
In a recent presentation to the human exploration and operations committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC), Phil McAlister, Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Development discussed the next steps that will be necessary for commercial crew providers to be certified to begin transportation of commercial crew to the International Space Station in 2017. Optional Milestones…
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Washington teen wins NASA “Why Space Matters to the Future” video contest
Addie Augsburger’s video won first place. There’s just something about Washington teenagers and their ability to talk about space exploration creatively. The Coalition for Space Exploration and NASA just announced the winners of their “Why Space Matters to the Future” national video contest and two Washington teens won first and second place. The contest asked…
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No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night
Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Saturday night. Photos by Long B. Nguyen, used with permission. www.longbachnguyen.com. They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode across stage. As he walked past…
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Photos: A rare peek inside the Space Shuttle trainer
What the astronauts saw: Looking through the windows of the Full Fuselage Trainer at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real Space Shuttle. But after getting a behind-the-scenes look at the Space Shuttle trainer being assembled at Seattle’s Museum of…
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Amazon’s cloud powering NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover
Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA’s latest and greatest mission to Mars — storing images and data from the space rover Curiosity’s mission. As reported by the LA Times, NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked Amazon’s web services for its Mars Exploration Rover and Mars…
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Super awesome ‘Curiosity’ approaches Mars, set for ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’
The plan to land the roving space lab Curiosity on Mars this weekend is the stuff of the wildest imaginations. Seriously, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would’ve killed for this storyline in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In what is being hailed as one of the most challenging space maneuvers ever, NASA’s Curiosity will endure…
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The Super Guppy has landed: Scenes from the delivery of our Space Shuttle replica
Updated at bottom with picture of the crew compartment after it was unwrapped. We (and our kids) had a great time today down at the Museum of Flight, where NASA’s freakishly cool Super Guppy cargo plane delivered the crew compartment of the Full Fuselage Trainer — the replica Space Shuttle orbiter that will have a…
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Space Nerds Rejoice! The Super Guppy is on its way
NASA’s Super Guppy cargo plane Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece of its full-scale Space Shuttle Trainer, the crew cabin section, will arrive June 30 via the NASA plane dubbed the “Super Guppy.” Personally, we were kind of hoping that NASA would’ve…
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Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet
Boeing’s CST-100 descends from the sky over Arizona. (Image credits: Boeing) Here’s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop system for its CST-100 spacecraft, releasing the capsule from a helicopter at 14,000 feet. Boeing says the test, conducted over the Delamar Dry Lake…