On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely
Both left and right hand SRBs showed this erosion, the most significant of the program
The Saturn IB rocket carrying the Skylab 3 crew thundered off Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on July 28, and they successfully
This picture was taken with a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera using a 100mm lens
A mentor of research scientist Meloë Kacenelenbogen once shared a sentiment from French author André Gide: “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the
when I was living in California and here in Maryland, I have experienced first-hand
Just like a ship, the International Space Station is carrying precious lives and cargo through an unforgiving environment – and its operators want
time to inspect and isolate a potential leak site before addressing the problem at hand
A lab with ultra-realistic lighting conditions and terrain features for recreating the two major types of lunar surfaces that future robots, rovers, and
Sometimes researchers painstakingly shape the dust with hand tools to recreate, as
The important work of collecting oral histories for NASA ensures that the contributions made by dedicated teams and individuals inspire the next generation
significant benefits and plays an important role in capturing and preserving the first-hand
On episode 369, three flight controllers from NASA’s Mission Control Center discuss how their consoles, ADCO, TOPO, and SPARTAN, keep the space station flying from the ground. Listen and find out what each console does!
Um, although the, the flight directors will hand out what’s called the gremlin, and
by Abigail Tabor
developed by scientists at NASA Ames, assesses the stability and performance of a hand-held
NASA has a long history of working with artists to tell the agency’s story. In 1962, Administrator James Webb tasked James Dean to implement a new arts program.
observations, recording wind speed with an anemometer and planetary features with a hand-held
As a child learning about basic engineering, you probably tried and failed to join a square-shaped toy with a circular-shaped toy: you needed a third shape to
“Once the holes are put in with a hand drill located by structured light, it’s simply