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Galaxy Evolution Explorer Placed in Standby Mode As Engineers Prepare to End Mission Operations
NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, has been placed in standby mode as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope’s launch. The spacecraft is scheduled to be decommissioned — taken out...
NASA Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory Returns First Video From Far Side of the Moon
A camera aboard one of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students, will be used by students...
Final Week to Win Suborbital Research Flight on XCORs Lynx I Vehicle
XCOR Aerospace and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announce the final week to register and become eligible to win a suborbital research flight on XCOR’s Lynx I vehicle at the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC-2012)...
Tests to Begin on the Engine That Will Help Carry Humans to Deep Space
A new series of tests on the engine that will help carry humans to deep space will begin next week at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi. The tests on the J-2X engine bring NASA one step closer to the first human-rated liquid oxygen...
Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Enters Its 9th Year of Operation
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA’s enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago.
Winners Named in the Third Annual NASA-sponsored Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge
Two hundred high school students packed an auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, Jan. 23, for a competition to program miniature satellites aboard the International Space Station. Alliance Rocket from the United States...
NASA to Officially Hand Over Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer to the Seattle Museum of Flight on Thursday
NASA’s Johnson Space Center will officially handover the "keys" to the Space Shuttle Full Fuselage Trainer to the Seattle Museum of Flight in a ceremony at 8:30 a.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 19. How People Arrived Here: private sector nasa
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Makes Its Last Observation
After 16 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views into the extreme environments around white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
