Missions

The Moon as You’ve Never Seen It Before

[/caption] You’re looking at a brand new view of the lunar farside, as never seen before. The team from the…

13 years ago

Want To Fly In Space? NASA Looking For More of the “Right Stuff”

[/caption] NASA is looking for folks with the “right stuff.” The space agency is seeking qualified individuals for when the…

13 years ago

Venerable Voyager 2 Spacecraft Gets a Tune-up 14 billion Kilometers From Earth

[/caption] Every mechanic loves to tinker with a machine to give it optimum operating efficiency. But this latest engineering feat…

13 years ago

Phobos-Grunt’s Mysterious Thruster Activation: A Function of Safe Mode or Just Good Luck?

[/caption] Editor’s note: Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the US team from the LIFE experiment on board the…

13 years ago

Update on Phobos-Grunt: Might the LIFE Experiment be Recovered?

[/caption] Editor's note: With Russian engineers trying to save the Phobos-Grunt mission, Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the…

13 years ago

LISA Pathfinder – Surfing Gravity Waves

[/caption] Do you remember the LISA mission? I do! The proposed launch for this unique vision is slated for 2014…

13 years ago

Soyuz Launches to Station amid Swirling Snowy Spectacular

[/caption] The future survival and fate of the International Space Station was on the line and is now firmly back…

13 years ago

Portraits of Our Sun on 11/11/11 at 11:11 UTC

[/caption] The Solar Dynamics Observatory takes images of the Sun about every 10 seconds, so it easily was able to…

13 years ago

ASF 2011 Autograph Show: To Be the Shoulders of Tomorrow’s Titans

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Every year the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) hosts its “Astronaut Autograph Show” at Kennedy Space…

13 years ago