Missions
NASA’s New Horizons Zooms By Pluto, Solar Systems Last Planet – King of The Kuiper Belt
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, LAUREL, MD - With this morning’s (July 14) do or die flyby of Pluto by NASA’s New…
Naming Pluto: Christening Features on Brave New Worlds
‘Here be Dragons…’ read the inscriptions of old maps used by early seafaring explorers. Such maps were crude, and often…
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- Atlas V
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Last, Best Look at Pluto’s Far Side and Four Perplexing Spots: 2 Days Out from Flyby
New Horizons' last look at Pluto's Charon-facing hemisphere reveals the highest resolution view of four intriguing darks spots for decades…
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NASA Names Four Astronauts for First Boeing, SpaceX U.S. Commercial Spaceflights
NASA today (July 9) named the first four astronauts who will fly on the first U.S. commercial spaceflights in private…
Pluto’s ‘Heart’ Revealed as New Horizons Probe Starts Flyby Campaign: 5 Days Out
The Huge Heart of Pluto Pluto’s “Heart” is seen in this new image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager…
New Horizons Exits Safe Mode, Operating Flawlessly for Upcoming Pluto Encounter
Latest color image of Pluto taken on July 3, 2015 shows 4 mysterious dark spots. Best yet image of Pluto…
NASA Loses Contact with New Horizons; Probe Now in Safe Mode
For a nail-biting hour and 20 minutes, NASA lost contact yesterday afternoon July 4 with the New Horizons spacecraft just…
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Challenger and Columbia Crews Memorialized in Emotional New “Forever Remembered” Exhibit at Kennedy Space Center
An iconic section of the fuselage recovered from space shuttle Challenger with the American flag (left) and the flight deck…
Red-faced Pluto Full of Surprises
Hey, Mars, you've got company. Looks like there's a second "red planet" in the Solar System — Pluto. Color images…
- Charles Bolden
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Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Failure Unknown; Launch Explosion Photos
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon resupply spaceship explode about 2 minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…