Famous First Earthrise Over Moon Recreated
On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lowell and William Anders became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the... Read more →
Don Kessler on Envisat and the Kessler Syndrome
On 15 April, the French space agency CNES rotated the Pleiades Earth observation satellite to capture this image of Envisat. At a distance of about... Read more →
Busy Days Aboard ISS
It's a busy time aboard the International Space Station, with a resupply vessel arrival, crew departures, and an upcoming commercial... Read more →
NASA Ames Wins Invention of the Year Award for X-37B Heat Shield
Source: Lubna Shirazi for NASA. MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has won the 2011 NASA Government... Read more →
Plutonium Production Restart Prepared
A Plutonium-238 pellet used for Radioisotope Thermal Generators (Credits: US Department of Energy). NASA has powered deep space missions with... Read more →
Deflectors at Full: Earth Prepared for Sun’s Maximum Fury
In 2013, the Sun's cycle of activity will peak. An increase in flare producing sunspots will in all likelihood bombard Earth with geomagnetic storms.... Read more →