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At exactly 11:35:00 UTC on June 20, we had a beautiful view of the #RemoveDEBRIS satellite being released from our #Kaber deployer. Thank you @astro_ricky for capturing such beautiful photos of this historic moment on @Space_Station! pic.twitter.com/bcQfrBjfaR
Reports are coming in of an explosion at Kennedy during a test firing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ahead of a weekend launch. Limited news on BBC and ABC13. Hope everyone is ok.
http://youtu.be/VuwU3e_ojuo Mankind has long been at the mercy of the cosmos – subject to the often violent happenings of the boundless universe that exists beyond the confines of Earth’s atmosphere. But today humans are taking huge steps to claim space for their own design, evolution and survival in what is becoming a new race for space. In the all-new three-part
Just over one year ago, Felix Bomgartner rode his Red Bull Stratos balloon to the staggering height of 128,000 feet and then leaped out, free-falling from the stratosphere. It was the highest skydive ever made and, thanks to the extremely thin atmosphere, Bomgartner quickly broke the record for the fastest freefall at just over 840 MPH. Prior to now, bit and
NASA Johnson Style is an educational parody of Psy's Gangnam Style, produced by the students of NASA's Johnson Space Center. It's brilliant and deserves as much attention as the original. I'm sure this will be all over the web in a few hours, combining great visuals and intelligent parody with the hottest hit of 2012.
You know that those of us at GNC love space and astronomy almost as much as we love computers and technology. While we all use different operating systems -- Windows, Mac, and even Linux, we can all agree that a good space theme is cool. There isn't any shortage of those available either. In fact, you don't even have to
Most of us have spent the past couple of months being completely fascinated with Curiosity, the latest and largest lander to roam the surface of Mars. NASA has been regularly posting images snapped by the multiple cameras on board the rover, but the one it snapped on October 31st may be the best so far. Astronomer Phil Plait, who pointed