The next challenge for NASA was to develop a system so that the same ship could be used repeatedly. The space shuttle took flight for the first time in 1981. The International Space Station was established as a cooperative effort between the United States and Russia, and means that humans ha...
Chief astronaut Joe Acaba, who has logged306 days in spacehimself, took pains to dismiss any idea that corporate politics played any role in NASA’s deliberations, nor was the months-long decision-making process a problem itself. “Right now, the agency has taken the time to ensure we are...
To accurately simulate life on Mars, Bell said volunteers in NASA's CHAPEA program are limited to food that could be pre-positioned or harvested on a real space mission. "The idea is, if we were actually going to go to Mars someday, you would have to send that f...
Pettit’s first trip to the space station was in 2002 —soon after it became operational— where he served as the NASA science officer aboard the station as part of Expedition 6. The experienced astronaut also traveled to the station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-12...
How to watch the launch The launch is scheduled for 1:33 a.m. ET on Tuesday, February 6 (10:33 p.m. PT on Monday, February 5). Coverage begins at 12:45 a.m. ET (9:45 p.m. PT on Monday). The coverage will be shown live on NASA TV, which you can watch in a variety ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is currently the fastest spacecraft ever launched.(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) So if you were theoretically able to hitch a ride on the Parker Solar Probe and take it on a detour from its sun-focused mission to travel in a straight line ...
Since then, NASA has increasingly embraced sonification to bring its publicly funded (and often expensive) cosmological discoveries to the masses. One of the leaders in that effort is Kimberly Arcand at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. For the past five years, she has worked with ...
The first thing to keep in mind is that the theory doesn't apply to every species of dinosaur, or even every subgroup of dinosaur. The dinosaurs that evolved into birds are theropods, the three-toed dinosaurs that include Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. Ironically, these are members of ...
NASAconnected decades of project data into a knowledge graph called “Lessons Learned Database.” The knowledge graph helped NASA’s engineers uncover trends and apply learnings to avoid repeating past mistakes, saving them over $2 million in the Mission to Mars. ...
Q&A: Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut Additional resources If you want to become an astronaut, there are lots of ways to do it now. The traditional path is to apply to a space agency, like NASA. But that's not the only possible way to get to space. If you can afford it, you ...