This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest stars form a “V” shape that somewhat resembles a flock of ducks in flight. via NASA htt…
A Russian Progress cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a three-hour flight to the International Space Station Thursday, April 4. March 28, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2FHua78 via IFTTT
A Russian Progress cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a three-hour flight to the International Space Station Thursday, April 4. March 28, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2U00tXU via IFTTT
A small asteroid was caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. via NASA https://ift.tt/2FDtGh5
When Joan Stupik was a child, her parents bought her a mini-planetarium that she could use to project the stars on her bedroom ceiling. via NASA https://ift.tt/2FyKdTB
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Tuesday’s announcement by Vice President Mike Pence, at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council, about putting American astronauts back on the Moon in the next five years: March 26, 2019 from NASA https://i…
NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three additional informal education organizations to supplement the initial group selected in June 2018. March 25, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2HFm0P3 via IFTTT
A static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor to help qualify the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure Orion is ready from liftoff to splashdown for missions to the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Wk4fYE
With the first in a series of three spacewalks successfully completed at the International Space Station, NASA has updated astronaut assignments for the remaining two spacewalks and will preview the third in an upcoming news conference on NASA Television and the agency’s website. March …
NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the fifth meeting of the National Space Council starting at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 26. March 25, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2OpxeYp via IFTTT
NASA astronaut Nick Hague completed the first spacewalk of his career on Friday, March 22, 2019. He and fellow astronaut Anne McClain worked on a set of battery upgrades for six hours and 39 minutes, on the International Space Station’s starboard truss. via NASA https://ift.tt/2CG0DJf
This fuzzy orb of light is a giant elliptical galaxy filled with an incredible 200 billion stars. via NASA https://ift.tt/2HBbd8y
Margaret W. ‘Hap’ Brennecke was the first female welding engineer to work in the Materials and Processes Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. via NASA https://ift.tt/2FrvN8V
The waxing gibbous moon is pictured above Earth's limb as the International Space Station was orbiting 266 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Y7zpnT
A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface. March 19, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2Y8TL08 via IFTTT
Apollo 11 backup crew members Fred Haise (left) and Jim Lovell prepare to enter the Lunar Module for an altitude test. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JkzvVU
Electronics technician Anna Noe makes final checks to the Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN) before it begins a cross-country road trip for use in an upcoming airborne science campaign. via NASA https://ift.tt/2HJufsJ
Four astronauts are preparing for their first spacewalks outside the International Space Station, scheduled for March 22, March 29 and April 8. March 15, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2uc0x7s via IFTTT
Media accreditation now is open for the next SpaceX delivery of supplies, equipment and science investigations to the International Space Station. March 15, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2W1cDw3 via IFTTT
The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft lifted off with Expedition 59 crewmembers on a journey to the International Space Station. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Y35LjV
Three crew members have arrived safely at the International Space Station, following a successful launch and docking of their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft Thursday. March 15, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2Fg3L0l via IFTTT
NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 19, to announce new science from the agency’s first mission to return to Earth an asteroid sample that may contain unaltered material from the very beginning of our solar system. March 14, 2019 from NASA https://ift…
The Soyuz rocket is seen at dawn on launch site 1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. via NASA https://ift.tt/2T5b7XR
Stephanie Wilson is a veteran of three spaceflights--STS-120, STS-121 and STS-131--and has logged more than 42 days in space. via NASA https://ift.tt/2O22GvI
The Soyuz rocket is transported by train to the launch pad, Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. via NASA https://ift.tt/2HsGwBy
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was photographed inside the Super Guppy aircraft that will carry the flight frame with the Orion crew module to a testing facility in Ohio. via NASA https://ift.tt/2UuE01e
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine: March 11, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2VNMqB6 via IFTTT
NASA Administrator, and Oklahoma native, Jim Bridenstine will be available to speak to media Saturday, March. March 08, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2TDKBJF via IFTTT
Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first chief astronomer, is known as the 'Mother of Hubble.' via NASA https://ift.tt/2HmRxo3
NASA passed a major milestone Friday in its goal to restore America’s human spaceflight capability when SpaceX’s Crew Dragon returned to Earth after a five-day mission docked to the International Space Station. March 08, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2EVfKiv via IFTTT
Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are set to join the crew aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, March 14. March 07, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2EVKAbY via IFTTT
One of the greatest challenges of the fourth phase of Air-to-Air Background Oriented Schlieren flights, or AirBOS flight series was timing. via NASA https://ift.tt/2UjhSa5
Media accreditation is open for the launch of Northrop Grumman’s next delivery of NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station on April 17. March 05, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2SGvZEQ via IFTTT
NASA invites media and social media to agency centers across the country Monday, March 11, to get an up-close look at America’s work to return astronauts to the Moon and on to Mars, following the delivery of President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget proposal to the U.S. Congress. March …
"The dawn of a new era in human spaceflight," wrote astronaut Anne McClain. McClain had an unparalleled view from orbit of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station for docking on Sunday, March 3, 2019. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Tg1tqk�…
On March 2, 2:49 a.m. EST, a two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Demo-1, the first uncrewed mission of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. via NASA https://ift.tt/2tR9vqy
Students from Arizona will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut on the International Space Station. March 04, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2EujZBb via IFTTT
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard launches from Launch Complex 39A, Saturday, March 2, 2019. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Tf5DPs
For the first time in history, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and rocket, which launched from American soil, is on its way to the International Space Station. March 02, 2019 from NASA https://ift.tt/2Xyve4j via IFTTT
Mae Jemison was the first African Ameican woman in space. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Vuh02I
