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SpaceX CRS-14 What's On Board Science Briefing

Torsten Neubert of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, and principal investigator...

Parker Solar Probe Liftoff

At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37, the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., suits up for spacecraft...

2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This view looks upward inside the mobile service tower on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape...

2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations’ hazardous processing facility, the MESSENGER spacecraft...

2018 NASA Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

Parker Solar Probe Liftoff

At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37, the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with...

Parker Solar Probe Liftoff

At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37, the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with...

2018 NASA Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

PUNCH Satellites Arrival at Astrotech, VSFB

Teams at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California offload several shipping containers protecting NASA’s PUNCH...

2018 NASA Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

2018 NASA Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

2018 NASA Exploration Rover Challenge

High school and university students competed in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge event at the U.S. Space...

NASA & NOAA Science News Conference on New Space Weather Missions (IMAP) - 4K

Three new missions to track space weather are launching on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Sept. 23: NASA's...

Around Marshall

Filled with anticipation, students from two local universities, the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and...

NASA Science News Conference on Three New Space Weather Missions (IMAP) - 720p

Three new missions to track space weather are launching on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Sept. 23: NASA's...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the high bay clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers get ready to remove the protective cover from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. Employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers check the moveable pallet holding NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be taken into a high bay clean room and employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the high bay clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, workers prepare to attach an overhead crane to NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The spacecraft will be moved to a work stand where employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities near KSC, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is offloaded. MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging - will be taken into a high bay clean room and employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, builders of the spacecraft, will perform an initial state-of-health check. Then processing for launch can begin, including checkout of the power systems, communications systems and control systems. The thermal blankets will also be attached for flight. MESSENGER will be launched May 11 on a six-year mission aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 2:26 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 11.

VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF. - The mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., rolls back from the Delta II rocket that will launch the Gravity Probe B experiment. The Gravity Probe B will launch a payload of four gyroscopes into low-Earth polar orbit to test two extraordinary predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity: the geodetic effect (how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth) and frame dragging (how Earth’s rotation drags space and time around with it). Once in orbit, for 18 months each gyroscope’s spin axis will be monitored as it travels through local spacetime, observing and measuring these effects. The experiment was developed by Stanford University, Lockheed Martin and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The targeted launch date is Dec. 6, 2003.