Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners celebrated the 11th anniversary of continuous residence and work aboard the station.
Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum, Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal … Read the rest of this article
Here is a stunning, mind-blowing time lapse video of the Earth at night, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station:
The video, taken by astronauts and edited by Michael König, was from a high-resolution camera with low-light abilities, so it can see faint sources of light. The footage was all taken from August to October 2011.
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The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ today to be welcomed by the waiting scientists – happy that the venture had worked even better than expected.
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The hatch of the Mars500 facility has been closed since June 2010. It was finally opened on 4 …
Since June last year, the six crewmembers of a simulated mission to Mars have been isolated in a special facility near Moscow. They will ‘arrive back on Earth’ on 4 November and go into quarantine for four days for medical checks.
Mars500’s official ‘One-year-in-isolation’ photo. Credits: ESA
Mars500 is the first full-duration simulation of a human mission to Mars, in … Read the rest of this article
The Guardian newspaper in the UK reported that China’s state run television, CCTV, and China’s space agency released a video animation prior to the recently launched Tiangong 1 miniature space station showing extensive footage of rendezvous and docking maneuvers in Earth orbit that is inexplicably set to the tune of “America the Beautiful”, a patriotic hymn that many American’s regard … Read the rest of this article
As they soar above Planet Earth on the International Space Station, astronauts regularly point their cameras toward home, and their images are stored on a massive archive of astronaut photos. Science educator James Drake took 600 such images and stitched them together into a movie, which you can see below.
The movie starts in the Pacific Ocean and flies over … Read the rest of this article
Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth today. The Shuttle era is now over and the door is open to the next generation of space vehicles.
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Wrapping up 30 years of unmatched achievements and blazing a trail for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, NASA’s storied Space shuttle Program came to a “wheels stop” on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at the conclusion of its 135th mission.
shuttle Atlantis and its four-astronaut crew glided home for the final time, ending a 13-day journey of more than … Read the rest of this article
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement on July 21st about the final landing of the Space shuttle Program:
“At today’s final landing of the space shuttle, we had the rare opportunity to witness history. We turned the page on a remarkable era and began the next chapter in our nation’s extraordinary story of exploration.
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The STS-135 crew of space shuttle Atlantis and the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station have been treated with great views of the Aurora Australis.
Here’s one shot the crews photographed, showing a panoramic view of the station/shuttle complex along with several different astronomical beauties! The aurora shows up brightly, but what else is in the image? Looking … Read the rest of this article
The Sun Now (Visible light)
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The Sun Now (H-Alpha light)
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Aurora Oval
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