A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity rover, is in a clean room at the agency’s Jet … Continue reading
It has flown to space more than any other craft, and it has carried more crew members to orbit. It was the first spacecraft to retrieve a satellite and bring it back to Earth. It has visited two space stations. It launched a telescope that has seen deeper in space … Continue reading
NASA and Gowalla are bringing people one small step closer to the universe. Anyone who uses Gowalla, a mobile and web service, now has the opportunity to find and collect four NASA-related virtual items — a moon rock, a NASA patch, a spacesuit and a space shuttle. Gowalla’s mission is … Continue reading
Over the years, the National Air and Space Museum has been the repository for many historically significant NASA artifacts. And in a ceremony today, it received a unique new addition. NASA scientist and Nobel Laureate John Mather and NASA astronaut Piers Sellers presented a replica of the Nobel Prize for … 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