SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic’s upcoming space tours, and NASA’s plans for the ISS make it clear there’s a lot going on with regards to space, and NASA’s Acting Administrator couldn’t help but noticed.
Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale.
If you’ve always dreamed of helping keep Earth safe from alien invaders, your ship may have just come in.
NASA is extremely interested in building a true astroid defense network that could spring into action as soon as a threat is detected, destroying or diverting a space rock before it can do any serious damage here on Earth.
The youngster receives a letter after responding to an advert for the role of planetary protection officer.
For a few months in the fall of 1957, citizens of Earth could look up and see the first artificial star. It shone as bright as Spica, but moved across the sky at a much faster clip. Lots of people thought they were seeing Sputnik—Russia’s antennaed, spherical satellite, and the first thing humans had flung into orbit. But it wasn’t: It was the body of the rocket that bore Sputnik to space—and Earth’s first piece of space junk.
More than 300 million people in the United States potentially could directly view the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, and NASA wants everyone who will witness this celestial phenomenon to do so safely.
The position pays up to $187K a year.
One of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever observed briefly released as much energy as the sun will emit over its lifetime, directing a narrow beam of gamma rays toward Earth by chance.
NASA’s Restore-L mission would develop satellite servicing technology and refuel the Landsat 7 spacecraft.
