News

Dextre Completes ISS Refueling Demonstration

By Merryl Azriel on January 28, 2013

Dextre manages a tricky wire-cutting maneuver with just a few millimeters of clearance (Credits: NASA). On January 25, Dextre, a robotic... Read more →

The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

A Week of Tragedies: Remembering Challenger

By Merryl Azriel on January 28, 2013

Plume accompanying Challenger's breakup (Credits: NASA). In a coincidence nearly odd enough to make even a rocket scientist wonder about fate,... Read more →

The Apollo 1 Fire

A Week of Tragedies: Remembering Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia

By Merryl Azriel on January 27, 2013

The Astronauts Memorial Foundations' Dignity Memorial commemorates NASA's fallen at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: Seth Buckley). In a... Read more →

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Space Safety Magazine, Issue 6, Winter 2013

By Merryl Azriel on January 27, 2013

  We knew this issue was going to spend a lot of time looking at Columbia. As we spoke with those who experienced the tragedy first hand... Read more →

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Space Safety Magazine, Issue 6, Winter 2013

By Andrea Gini on January 26, 2013

Inside the Space Safety Magazine, Issue 6, Winter 2013 The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety Space Politics, the European... Read more →

Media

Sounding Rocket Telescope Zooms in on Solar Corona

By Merryl Azriel on January 25, 2013

The Hi-C imager targeted the region of the Sun shown in the top left image from SDO. The border images are subsets of the large image recorded by... Read more →