NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer, prepares for a training session in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. (Image credit: NASA/James M. Blair) "Space Cadet" is a charming new space-based comedy on Prime Video th...
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The impetus for NASA's formation was complex, but briefly put, the United States and the Soviet Union were in the midst of a Cold War, which Encyclopedia Britannica describes as "an ongoing political rivalry" between those countries and their allies between ...
Luna 5’s retro-rockets failed to fire and the spacecraft crash-landed near Sea of Clouds. 26. Luna 6 – Failed lunar lander. Launch: June 8, 1965 On its way to the Moon, a rocket failed to turn off after a trajectory correction, so missed Moon and went into solar orbit. 27. ...
I walked out of the credit union and the planes crashed into the golf course across the freeway (SEE: In Memorial for lost friends April 12, 1973). I could see a golfer with his golf club hitting the thick windows of the P-3 until the heat forced him back. I think that he could...
It’s perfectly obvious from our society today what those specifications were. Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control;...
Other planned uses of the Shuttle were a brand new space station, far bigger than Skylab or even the Soviet Union’s upcoming “Mir” space station, to launch a large space telescope that could see farther into the universe than anything before it, to repair existing satellites or r...
Photo credit:NASA In the interval between establishing that it was safe to stay and starting preparations for the first moonwalk, Buzz Aldrin made an announcement: “I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment...
Truly sat down near me and waited for a moment, weighing his next words carefully. “I heard you were offered a teaching job at your old college” “Caltech, that’s correct. But I still don’t know if I want to take it” “You still want to fly in the program?” “May...
Foundation models were applied to HLS imagery, such as this true color composite image of irrigated agricultural fields near Sadat City, about 80 km northwest of Cairo, Egypt. Credit: HLS/NASA IMPACT. A public/private partnership involving NASA and IBM Research has led to the re...
(Image credit: NASA) With the Soviet Union launching the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US was determined not to fall behind and so the Space Race began. Johnson's passion was geometry, which was useful for calculating the trajectories of spacecraft. For NASA's 1961 Mercury mission, she ...