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The Iconic Photos from STS-41B: Documenting the First Untethered Spacewalk
As astronaut Bruce McCandless II flew the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) out of the space shuttle Challenger’s payload bay for the first time on February 7, 1984, many in the…
Meet the Creators, Part 3: NASA’s 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Posters
3 min readA total solar eclipse is a captivating experience – evoking feelings of awe and wonder that are sometimes best expressed through by the upcoming total solar eclipse of…
California, Massachusetts Students to Hear from NASA, ESA Astronauts
Students from California and Massachusetts will have separate opportunities next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The two Earth-to-space calls will air live Monday, Feb.…
NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 3 Departure from Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking and departure of the Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) private astronaut flight from the International Space Station before the crew returns to ;…
NASA Invites Public to Share in Excitement of PACE Mission Launch
NASA is hosting virtual activities ahead of the launch of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission and invites you to share in the fun. The PACE mission will…
UNITE All-Nighter Delights Amateur Astronomers
2 min readMaybe you read about them in the papers--amateur astronomers in Japan, Russia, France, Finland, and the United States have been pulling all-nighters to spot extraordinary exoplanets, planets orbiting…
30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission
On Feb. 3, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took off on its 18th flight, STS-60. Its six-person crew of Commander Charles F. Bolden, Pilot Kenneth S. Reightler, and Mission Specialists N.…
Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation. They are unusually blue…
Tiny NASA Cameras to Picture Interaction Between Lander, Moon’s Surface
Say cheese, Moon. We’re coming in for a Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander descends toward the Moon, four tiny NASA cameras will be trained on the lunar surface, collecting imagery of…
Hubble Views a Dim but Distinct Galaxy
2 min readThis image of the softly luminous spiral galaxy UGC 11105 is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It lies about 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation…