Video: NASA Asteroid Redirect Initiative
NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable lunar orbit where astronauts can visit and explore it. The proposed mission would combine the efforts of three NASA mission directorates: Human Exploration and Operations, Science and Space Technology.
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The International Space Station Destiny Lab with Canadarm and Dextre
The Destiny Laboratory module is the U.S.-built module used for Earth science studies. It is also equipped with storage points for dozens of experiment modules that can be brought up from Earth or returned when the experiments are completed.
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An Astronaut's View from Station
A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in the top left foreground is a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. In the lower right corner, a solar array panel can be seen.This photo was taken from the ISS on June 12, 2013.
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Titan's Ligeia Mare
Ligeia Mare, shown here in a false-color image from the international Cassini mission, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It measures roughly 420 km x 350 km and its shorelines extend for over 3,000 km. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane.
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Messier 61 Looks Straight Into the Camera
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly the size of the Milky Way, with a diameter of around 100 000 light-years.
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SpaceX Recruiting - Occupy Mars
The SpaceX software recruiting event at DFJ last night.
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ISS Progress 51 Cargo Craft
The Russian Progress 51 cargo spacecraft separates from the International Space Station at 9:58 a.m. EDT, June 11, 2013.
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Detailed Satellite Imagery of Severe Storm
A powerful storm swept across the Midwestern U.S. late on June 12, 2012 and is continuing to move across the Mid-Atlantic. Around 0700z (3am EDT), the Suomi NPP satellite passed over the storm as the most intense areas were along the Ohio-West Virginia-Pennsylvania border.
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NASA MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph
The philosophy of NASA's Mars Program has been "Follow the water," but "Where did the atmosphere go?" is still a lingering question.
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Andromeda Galaxy
Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky Way's galactic neighbor, Andromeda, as described in our latest press release. This is the largest number of possible black holes found in a galaxy outside of our own.