Missions

Stunning New Flyover Video: Volcanoes, Canyons and Craters of Mars

Go from the highest volcano to the deepest canyon on Mars in this great new complication video from images taken…

11 years ago

Jupiter Bound Juno snaps Dazzling Gallery of Planet Earth Portraits

Juno Portrait of Earth This false color composite shows more than half of Earth’s disk over the coast of Argentina…

11 years ago

What If Earth Was Threatened by An Asteroid Strike? Astronaut Panel Brings Up Ideas To Search, Deflect These Threats

"If we get hit 20 years from now, that's not bad luck. That's stupidity." That's what former NASA astronaut Ed…

11 years ago

Cygnus Commercial Cargo Craft Completes Historic First Flight to Space Station

Commercial space took another major leap forward this morning, Oct 22., when the privately developed Cygnus cargo vehicle undocked from…

11 years ago

Skeleton Crew gets LADEE in Orbit, Checked Out and Fires Revolutionary Laser During Gov’t Shutdown

NASA’s new LADEE spacecraft successfully entered lunar orbit, is operating beautifully and has begun shooting its radical laser communications experiment…

11 years ago

India’s First Mars Mission Set to Blast off Seeking Methane Signature

India is gearing up for its first ever space undertaking to the Red Planet - dubbed the Mars Orbiter Mission,…

11 years ago

Jupiter-bound Juno Probe Back in Full Operation After Earth Flyby Glitch

Juno swoops over Argentina This reconstructed day side image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots transmitted back home…

11 years ago

Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies

One of the original “Mercury 7” astronauts, Scott Carpenter, has died. He was the sixth person to fly in space;…

11 years ago