After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission. The decision follows unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload. “Learning about the interior structure of Mars has […]
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Soyuz Heads to Space Station with New Crew, Return Transportation for One-Year Mission Team
Three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan have launched to the International Space Station to provide a new ride home for the station’s one-year crew and continue important research that advances NASA’s journey to Mars.
Four NASA Heroes Inducted into U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate John Grunsfeld and former astronauts Steve Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and M. Rhea Seddon were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Saturday, bringing the total number of Hall of Fame space explorers to 91. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a 2006 hall of famer, and 2008 inductee […]
NASA Television Coverage Set for Russian Spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station will venture outside the orbiting outpost Monday, Aug. 18, for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk — the 181st in support of space station assembly and maintenance. NASA TV coverage will begin at 9:30 a.m. Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency […]
NASA’s NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days. “The corona recently collapsed in toward […]
