Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...
Solar Orbiter Captures Incredible Footage of Tiny Jets Near the Sun’s South Pole
The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...
Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
Solar Orbiter Just Solved a Major Mystery About the Sun
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
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15 Years Ago: STS-130 Brings Tranquility, Cupola to ISS
On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...
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Remembering Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew 39 years later
Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on ... on how that seal would have been affected in those temperatures. The orbiter and the launch tower were draped in icicles.
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Russian museum to restore surviving orbiter from Buran shuttle programme
Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...
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Challenger space shuttle explosion: Remembering disaster 39 years later
T and orbiter. That was immediately followed by ... But we're still blessed with heroes like those of the space shuttle Challenger, Dick, Mike, Judy, L. Ron, Greg and Christian.
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STS-63, First Shuttle And Mir Rendezvous Mission
The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...
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Hemphill museum to mark 22nd anniversary of Shuttle Columbia tragedy
A moment of silence will be observed at the time NASA lost contact with the orbiter’s crew ... his career at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) supporting the Space Shuttle, Space Station, and ...