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 […]
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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 […]
Departure of U.S. Cargo Ship to Air on NASA Television
After delivering almost three tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the crew of the International Space Station, Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the SS Janice Voss, is scheduled to leave the station Friday, Aug. 15. NASA Television will provide live coverage of departure activities beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT. Ground controllers in the Mission Control […]
Television Coverage Set for Final European Space Station Cargo Ship Docking
The fifth and final docking of a European Space Agency cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will air live on NASA Television Tuesday, Aug. 12, beginning at 8 a.m. EDT. Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) 5, which is named “George Lemaitre” in honor of the 20th century Belgian astronomer and physicist credited with proposing the […]
