The International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

How to catch a Dragon

How to catch a Dragon

Monday, September 15, 2014

Giant solar flare

Giant solar flare

‘J’ marks the spot for Rosetta’s lander

‘J’ marks the spot for Rosetta’s lander

Sunday, September 14, 2014

ORION CREW MODULE SITS ATOP SERVICE MODULE

FROM:  NASA 

Caption Credit:  NASA.  NASA’s first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neal Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew and service module will be transferred together on Wednesday to another facility for fueling, before moving again for the installation of the launch abort system. At that point, the spacecraft will be complete and ready to stack on top of the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space on its first flight in December. For that flight, Exploration Flight Test-1, Orion will travel 3,600 miles above the Earth – farther than any spacecraft built to carry people has traveled in more than 40 years – and return home at speeds of 20,000 miles per hour, while enduring temperatures near 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  Image Credit-NASA-Rad Sinyak

Monday, September 1, 2014

Neutron stars at odds

Neutron stars at odds