The Orion crew exploration vehicle took shape as the two halves of the crew module were fused together at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The Lockheed Martin Orion team welded the forward cone assembly to the aft barrel assembly using the next generation friction stir weld process. … Continue reading
Lettuce, peas and radishes are just a few vegetables that are found in a summer garden. But did you know these same vegetables also can be grown in space? Crew members aboard the International Space Station have been growing such plants and vegetables for years in their “space garden.” A … Continue reading
Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs. Each of the 600 newly released observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers an area of several square … Continue reading
Astronomers studying the Milky Way have discovered a large number of previously unknown regions where massive stars are being formed. Their discovery, made with the help of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, provides important new information about the structure of our home galaxy and promises to yield new clues about its … Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally made the “big time” at least according to the old Frank Sinatra song “New York, New York.” The life-sized model of NASA’s next generation space telescope is being set up in New York City’s Battery Park for the 2010 World Science Festival, which … Continue reading
Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 5, 2010 at 2:20 p.m. The on-time liftoff under a picturesque Florida sky was a perfect beginning to Atlantis’ last scheduled mission, STS-132. The Final Planned Flight of Atlantis Delivers New ‘Dawn’ shuttle carried a six-person crew on … Continue reading