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SpaceX's first Falcon 9 Block 5 test-fired at pad 39A – Spaceflight Now

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The hold-down test-firing occurred at 7:25 p.m. EDT (2325 GMT) Friday on pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy ...

Live coverage: InSight Mars mission lifts off from California aboard ...

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2 days ago - NASA's live video coverage of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 3:30 a.m. PDT (6:30 a.m. EDT; 1030 GMT) on May 5. Last Updated: 05/03/2018 07:43. Last to first ...

Video: Replay of Atlas 5's launch with GOES-S weather satellite ...

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Mar 1, 2018
NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, the latest in a series of meteorological observatories dating back to 1975 ...

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NASA's Mars InSight Mission Launches for Six-Month Journey - The ...

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4 hours ago - Watch in Times Video ». embed. Propelled by a predawn rocket launch from California, NASA's InSight spacecraft is now on a voyage of some six months to Mars to study the deep ... Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that's out of this world.
6 hours ago - NASA's InSight Mars lander lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 5, 2018 at 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105 GMT). See photos from the historic launch here.
23 hours ago - This NASA map shows the location of Mars at 6 a.m. your local time on May 5, 2018, the same day NASA will launch the InSight Mars lander to the Red ... use it to locate Mars and the moon, which can be found near the constellation Sagittarius, according to this video guide from NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
1 day ago - NASA's InSight Mars lander, tucked inside its protective payload fairing, is moved to the launchpad to be attached to its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission will launch on May 5, 2018. Credit: USAF 30th Space Wing/Daniel Herrera. InSight is ...

NASA Mars InSight Lander: Ready to Study the Heart of Mars - YouTube

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Video file: Mars InSight: NASA's Next Mission to Red Planet - YouTube

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NASA's next mission to Mars, Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport ...

Video: Soyuz lifts off with three-man crew – Spaceflight Now

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Mar 21, 2018
Three veteran space fliers rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

Video: Ariane 5 rocket lifts off with communications satellites ...

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Apr 5, 2018
Video credit: Arianespace. A European Ariane 5 rocket climbed off its launch pad in French Guiana with ...

NASA's Mars InSight Lander - NASA Mars

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InSight Mars Roadshow. We are going on the road and coming to a city near you! Stop by, chat with NASA scientists and engineers, and learn about marsquakes, and how InSight will study in-depth the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle and core. Cities and Tour Dates ››. Launch Week. Launch Viewing. May 5, 2018

NASA Images | NASA

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Aug 3, 2017 - NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, ... Voyage to the Red Planet. 17 hours ago. NASA's InSight spacecraft rests aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket, awaiting launch scheduled on May 5, 2018. Astronomy Pic of the Day ...

NASA Sets Sights on May 5 Launch of InSight Mars Mission | NASA

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Apr 27, 2018 - InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Launching on the same rocket is a separate NASA ...
On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. See how it happened in our On This ... By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer | May 5, 2018 08:50am ET. MORE ... where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast ...
14 hours ago - NASA's InSight Mars lander will launch Saturday at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 a.m. PDT/1105 GMT) on Saturday from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. ... This NASA map shows the location of Mars at 6 a.m. your local time on May 5, 2018, the same day NASA will launch the InSight Mars lander to the Red ...

Astronomy News -- ScienceDaily

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Hubble Catches a Colossal Cluster. Apr. 13, 2018 — This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the ... read more ...

News | NASA InSight Mission to Mars Arrives at Launch Site

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Feb 28, 2018 - The spacecraft, built in Colorado by Lockheed Martin Space, was shipped February 28, 2018, in preparation for launch from Vandenberg in May 2018. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin Space .... The launch period for InSight opens May 5, 2018 and continues through June 8, 2018. "One of ...

Space News From SpaceDaily.Com

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April 2018 – Spaceflight Now

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Video: Blue Origin flies New Shepard rocket for eighth time. April 29, 2018. Blue Origin's New Shepard booster, topped with a capsule carrying a dummy dubbed Mannequin Skywalker, took off Sunday from the company's sprawling test site in West Texas on a 10-minute trip to the edge of space and back.

Video: InSight blasts off through the fog – Spaceflight Now

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2 hours ago - Three NASA spacecraft were aboard the rocket, with the InSight Mars lander cocooned inside the Atlas 5's payload shroud, and two CubeSats riding piggyback, set to become the first CubeSats to fly in deep space. InSight and the two Mars Cube One secondary payloads separated from the Atlas 5's ...

Video: Dragon capsule arrives at space station – Spaceflight Now

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Closing out a two-day pursuit following launch from Cape Canaveral, a reused SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule ...

Atlas 5 rocket assembled for first Mars mission launch from ...

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Mar 23, 2018 - The Atlas 5's first stage booster for the InSight mission arrives at Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin. Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California raised a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its launch pad earlier this month in ...

Video: Replay of SpaceX's first launch and landing of 2018 ...

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Jan 8, 2018
This video shows the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Program

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Deep InSight: NASA's next Mars lander will probe Red ... - Space.com

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3 days ago - Artist's illustration of NASA's Mars InSight lander, which is scheduled to launch on May 5, 2018, to probe the Red Planet's interior structure. ... on," mission principal investigator Bruce Banerdt, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said during the late March news conference.

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu

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STEM education news and features from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ... A spacecraft designed to study seismic activity on Mars, or “marsquakes,” is scheduled to lift off on a nearly seven-month journey to the Red Planet on May 5, 2018. .... Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.

Solar System Exploration: NASA Science

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May the fifth be with you because history is about to be made: As early as May 5, 2018, NASA is set to launch Mars InSight, the very first mission to study the deep interior of Mars. Below, 10 things to know as we head to the heart of the Red Planet. What's in a Name? Marsquakes! More than Mars. Robot Testing. The Gang's ...

TESS Arrives in Florida | NASA Launch - Deep Astronomy

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Feb 24, 2018 - Uploaded by Deep Astronomy
Hello Space Fans and welcome to another edition of Space Fan News. In this episode, TESS, the ...

Event Calendar - Solar System Exploration - NASA

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In The News and In THE SKY, 5/7/2018, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States, Kenneth Bertin. Carreers in Aerospace, 5/7/2018, Flour Bluff Jr ... This event is open to the public and hosts 5 guest speakers covering fun astronomy and space science subjects. We will conclude with deep-sky ...

News – Spaceflight Now

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May 5, 2018. SpaceX's launch team loaded liquid propellants into the company's first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in ... A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to dispatch NASA's InSight lander toward Mars, kicking off an interplanetary journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

Dragon cargo capsule reaches space station for second time ...

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Apr 4, 2018 - It's the 14th time a SpaceX supply ship has reached the space station, including a demonstration mission in 2012, and the SpaceX's 14th full-up revenue-earning cargo mission under a more than $2 billion contract with NASA. One of those cargo flights failed during launch in 2015. The Dragon capsule ...

NASA could extend space station stays as hedge against commercial ...

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Apr 16, 2018 - NASA is working with the Russian space agency to potentially extend crew stays on the International Space Station, the agency's acting administrator said last week, as a cushion against expected delays in the development of commercial crew capsules by Boeing and SpaceX. Robert Lightfoot, who has ...

Image of the Day - NASA Earth Observatory

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NASA Launch Schedule | Rocket Launches

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Science Mission Directorate - NASA

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NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated. Demonstration Proves Nuclear Fission System Can Provide Space Exploration Power. May 2, 2018. NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have ...

InSight Lander: Probing the Martian Interior - Space.com

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5 hours ago - NASA's next lander, InSight, will study the interior structure of Mars for signs of tectonic activity. ... InSight launched toward Mars on May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on an Atlas V vehicle from United Launch Alliance. If successful, the mission will land on Nov. 26, 2018, at the ...

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Even though InSight is stationary on the planet, its position in space will wobble slightly with Mars itself, as the planet spins on its axis. Scientists can use what they ... In this video lesson, students learn to design, build and launch paper rockets, calculate how high they fly and improve their designs. Grades 4-9. Time 1-2 hrs.

News | Sneak Peek of JPL Missions and Activities - NASA Jet ...

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Jan 16, 2018 - The first discovery of the Space Age, the radiation belts were later named in honor of their discoverer, the principal investigator of Explorer 1's cosmic ray detector, James Van Allen. Objective: Begin U.S. space exploration. Mars. InSight. First Launch Opportunity: May 5, 2018. Date of Landing: Nov. 26, 2018.

Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral ...

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Feb 28, 2018 - NASA TV's live video coverage of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) on March 1. Last Updated: ... A weather satellite set to bring new storm tracking capabilities to the western United States and the Pacific Ocean rode into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Thursday.

Juno's latest imagery from Jupiter – Spaceflight Now

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Jan 30, 2018 - NASA's Juno spacecraft, now on its 11th orbit around Jupiter, continues to return jaw-dropping views of the solar systems's biggest planet from ... closes in on Jupiter for a high-speed flyby as close as 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, closer than any past space mission has come to ...

Mission Reports – Spaceflight Now

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May 5, 2018. SpaceX's launch team loaded liquid propellants into the company's first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in ... A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to dispatch NASA's InSight lander toward Mars, kicking off an interplanetary journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

Falcon 9 / TESS launch replays – Spaceflight Now

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Falcon 9 / TESS launch replays. April 19, 2018 Spaceflight Now. Cameras in various locations at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center capture the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA's TESS planet-hunting telescope.
NASA cancels lunar rover, shifts focus to commercial moon landers. May 1, 2018. As NASA turns up support for future commercial lunar landers, the space agency last week canceled a mission that would have placed a rover on the moon to survey resources, such as water and helium, that could be used by future human ...

November 2017 – Page 2 – Spaceflight Now

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Nov 21, 2017 - A Long March 6 booster took off Tuesday from China with three commercial Earth observation satellites designed to record high-definition video and color ... The maiden flight of NASA's Space Launch System, a heavy-lift human-rated rocket and one of the agency's core programs, will likely not be ready for ...

NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission | NASA

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Mar 9, 2016 - NASA has set a new launch opportunity, beginning May 5, 2018, for the InSight mission to Mars. ... InSight project managers recently briefed officials at NASA and France's space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), on a path forward; the proposed plan to redesign the science instrument ...
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Space & Time News -- ScienceDaily

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Astronomy News. Read the latest astronomy news and articles from around the world. Space and time theory and more. Full-text, images, updated daily. ... First-Born Stars of the Universe. Apr. 25, 2018 — ASU-led team aims to use new NASA space telescope to capture light from the first stars to be born in the ... read more ...

NASA launches InSight spacecraft bound for Mars - Astronaut

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The lander will dig deeper into Mars than ever before — nearly 16 feet, or five metres — to take the planet's temperature. It will also attempt to make the first measurements of marsquakes, using a seismometer placed directly on the Martian surface.
4 hours ago - SpaceX's CRS-14 Dragon capsule is released into space by the robotic arm on the International Space Station on May 5, 2018. Dragon will return 4,000 lbs (1,800 kilograms) of science samples and gear to Earth. Credit: NASA TV. A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship is returning to Earth today (May 5) with more ...

March 2018 – Spaceflight Now

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Mar 30, 2018 - Photos: Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical at Vandenberg. March 30, 2018. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to loft the fifth batch of Iridium Next mobile communications satellites stands vertical on Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

NASA releases summary of investigation into SpaceX's 2015 launch ...

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Mar 13, 2018 - NASA's independent review team that investigated the destruction of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship shortly after liftoff in June 2015 concluded a design error led to the loss of more than two tons of provisions and equipment heading for the International Space Station. Engineers from ...

Bridenstine sworn in as 13th NASA administrator – Spaceflight Now

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Apr 23, 2018 - Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine resigned from the House of Representatives Monday and was sworn in as NASA's 13th administrator by Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of the recently revitalized National Space Council. “Last December, President Trump … signed the first set of National ...

NASA gears up for brisk launch pace, starting with weather satellite ...

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Feb 14, 2018 - Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center tasked with overseeing launches of scientific satellites and interplanetary probes will be responsible later this ... Fitted with four wide-field astronomical cameras, TESS will launch into an egg-shaped preliminary orbit stretching as far as 155,000 miles (250,000 ...

NASA – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX poised to launch planet-hunter. April 16, 2018. SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for takeoff Monday to launch a planet-hunting satellite for NASA that will monitor the light from countless stars to find potentially habitable planets worthy of follow-up studies by more powerful ground- and space-based observatories.

Live coverage: SpaceX resupply mission arrives at space station ...

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Apr 2, 2018 - A commercial Dragon cargo capsule will remain at the International Space Station until Saturday, three days later than previously planned due to high sea states observed by the SpaceX .... NASA TV's live video coverage of today's Dragon rendezvous with the International Space Station has started. NASA ...

Bridenstine narrowly confirmed in Senate to become next NASA chief ...

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Apr 19, 2018 - In an extremely close party-line vote, Bridenstine was confirmed 50-49, seven-and-a-half months after President Trump picked him to lead the civilian space agency. It was the most contentious nomination process in recent NASA history with most previous administrators confirmed unanimously or with little ...

NASA to decide soon whether flying drone will launch with Mars 2020 ...

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Mar 15, 2018 - Jim Green, head of NASA's planetary science division, said the space agency will examine the technical readiness of the helicopter and the cost of sending it to Mars in ... Based on the rover and sky crane lander design from NASA's Curiosity mission, Mars 2020 will reach the red planet in February 2021.

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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In this video lesson, students learn to design, build and launch paper rockets, calculate how high they fly and improve their designs. ..... In the News. After almost 20 years in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun the final chapter of its remarkable story of exploration. This last phase of the mission has delivered ...

Expedition 56 – Spaceflight Now

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A Russian Soyuz ferry ship carrying a Russian commander and two NASA astronauts caught up with the International Space Station Friday and executed a flawless docking to close out a two-day rendezvous that began with launch Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Spacewalkers complete repairs to station robotic arm – Spaceflight Now

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Jan 23, 2018 - The arm was launched to the station aboard a space shuttle in 2001. Several years ago, engineers noticed signs of wear and tear in the LEE mechanisms and NASA managers eventually decided to replace both units. Last October, astronauts replaced one aging grapple mechanism — LEE-A — and during ...

Atlas 5/InSight launch windows – Spaceflight Now

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Apr 24, 2018 - The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA's InSight lander toward Mars will have a roughly two-hour predawn launch window each day from May 5 through June 8 to boost the science probe into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The nearly five-week launch period is ...

Plot thickens as New Horizons moves within year of next flyby ...

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Jan 6, 2018 - The nuclear-powered spacecraft made the first close-up exploration of Pluto and its moons in July 2015, and NASA has approved a new flight plan to fly past ... Using precise tracking data from Hubble and an updated star catalog provided by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, astronomers found ...
3 days ago - NASA and SpaceX have postponed the return to Earth of the CRS-14 Dragon cargo ship (seen here at the International Space Station) to Saturday, May 5, 2018, due to rough seas at its splashdown zone. The resupply ship launched April 2 and arrived at the station April 4. Credit: NASA. NASA and SpaceX ...

InSight Launch Press Kit | Home Page - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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NASA's next mission to Mars -- InSight -- will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as early as May 5, 2018. ... All of NASA's interplanetary launches to date have been from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in part because the physics of launching off the East Coast are better for journeys to ...

Pi Goes the Distance at NASA - Teachable Moments | NASA/JPL Edu

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Mar 9, 2018 - View the illustrated answer key In the News The 2018 NASA Pi Day Challenge Can you solve these stellar mysteries with pi? ... Here's some of the science behind this year's challenge:Scheduled to launch May 5, 2018, the InSight Mars lander will be equipped with several scientific instruments, including a ...

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Even though InSight is stationary on the planet, its position in space will wobble slightly with Mars itself, as the planet spins on its axis. Scientists can use what they ... In this video lesson, students learn to design, build and launch paper rockets, calculate how high they fly and improve their designs. Grades 4-9. Time 1-2 hrs.

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Scheduled to launch May 5, 2018, the InSight Mars lander will be equipped with several scientific instruments, including a heat flow probe and a seismometer. ..... and professional astronomers pointing their telescopes to the sky, and the source of inspiration for everyone from aspiring space scientists to engineers to artists.

NASA Mars InSight Lander Ready - Deep Astronomy

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InSight is scheduled to launch from the California coast to the plains of Mars on May 5, 2018. This is the first ...
5 hours ago - The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's InSight Mars soars into space after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before dawn on May 5, 2018. Credit: NASA TV. If everything goes according to plan, InSight will reach its destination in a little less than seven months, ...

InSight – Spaceflight Now

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A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to dispatch NASA's InSight lander toward Mars, kicking off an interplanetary journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... its mission to Mars after concluding that the probe should not suffer the same flaw that led to a crack in a heat shield undergoing tests for the space agency's Mars ...

Vandenberg Air Force Base – Spaceflight Now

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A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to dispatch NASA's InSight lander toward Mars, kicking off an interplanetary journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... its mission to Mars after concluding that the probe should not suffer the same flaw that led to a crack in a heat shield undergoing tests for the space agency's Mars ...

JAXA, NASA approve replacement for failed Hitomi astronomy satellite ...

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Jul 6, 2017 - The Japanese space agency is moving ahead with a smaller-scale X-ray astronomy satellite to replace the failed Hitomi observatory, which spun out of control about a month-and-a-half after its launch last year. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission, or XARM, could launch as soon as March 2021, filling a ...

Timeline for SpaceX's next station cargo launch – Spaceflight Now

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Apr 2, 2018 - Working under contract to NASA, Monday's launch will be the 14th of least 26 SpaceX resupply missions to depart for the space station. SpaceX does not intend to recover the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on Monday's mission. The booster is already a veteran of one launch in August 2017, when it propelled ...

Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on SpaceX's 14th station cargo mission ...

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Apr 2, 2018 - Packed with food, hardware and experiments in biology, Earth science and space technology, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship lifted off Monday from Cape Canaveral destined for the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off at 4:30:38 p.m. EDT (2030:38 GMT) from ...

Time-lapse video: First Falcon 9 Block 5 arrives at pad 39A for hotfire ...

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2 days ago - SpaceX's first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, sporting changes to make the booster easier to reuse, rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday ahead of a planned hold-down engine firing. The two-stage rocket, revealed for the first time Thursday, ...

Videos: Atlas 5 launch replays from OA-7 Cygnus mission ...

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Apr 21, 2017
Isolated camera views from various locations around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center show the ...

SpaceX supply ship departs Cape Canaveral for space station ...

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Apr 2, 2018 - The supply haul is the 14th cargo mission to the space station launched by SpaceX under a contract with NASA valued at more than $2 billion, .... monitor may help scientists pinpoint the sources of flashes of gamma rays detected coming from Earth's atmosphere by some astronomical instruments in space.

News | NASA Approves 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission

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Sep 2, 2016 - NASA has set a new launch opportunity, beginning May 5, 2018, for the InSight mission to Mars. ... France's space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), will focus on developing and delivering the key sensors for SEIS, integration of the sensors into the container, and the final integration ...
19 hours ago - NASA's InSight Mars Lander Almost Didn't Happen. Here's How It Was Saved. Artist's illustration of NASA's InSight lander on Mars. InSight is scheduled to launch on May 5, 2018. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA's next Mars mission almost didn't happen. A slow leak in the vacuum container surrounding ...

SpaceX – Spaceflight Now

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Time-lapse video: First Falcon 9 Block 5 arrives at pad 39A for hotfire test. May 3, 2018. SpaceX's first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, sporting changes to make the booster easier to reuse, rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday ahead of a planned hold-down ...

Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship preps for space station departure ...

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1 day ago - Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

Astronaut Jeanette Epps bumped from space station flight ...

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Jan 19, 2018 - NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps participates in a news conference Nov. 30 in Star City, Russia. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. NASA said Thursday that rookie astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor will replace Jeanette Epps on an expedition set for launch to the International ...

Live coverage: NASA planet-hunting satellite launched by SpaceX ...

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Apr 16, 2018 - Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Text updates will appear .... Spaceflight Now members can watch a video of this evening's Falcon 9 launch as seen from the Kennedy Space Center press site. Our live ...

Launch Schedule – Spaceflight Now

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-078, will launch NASA's InSight lander to Mars. InSight will touch down in the Elysium Planitia ... Two Chinese microsatellites will launch with the Chang'e 4 relay mission to conduct astronomical observations from deep space. [May 1]. NET May 24Falcon 9 • SES 12.

Live coverage: Falcon Heavy completes dramatic pre-launch engine ...

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Jan 9, 2018 - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket pictured on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Spaceflight Now members can watch a live video feed of pad 39A as the Falcon Heavy is prepared for a test-firing. Become a member today to support our coverage and receive exclusive content.

News – Spaceflight101

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2 days ago - Saturday, May 5, 2018 .... Chinese Long March 11 Launches Five Video & Hyperspectral Satellites for Zhuhai Constellation ... its seventh member on Wednesday after the Sentinel-3B ocean- and land-sensing satellite received a smooth ride to orbit atop a Russian ballistic-missile-turned-space-launcher.

InSight Launch Press Kit | Mission Overview - NASA Jet Propulsion ...

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Profile of InSight launch events, for launch at first opportunity on May 5, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The "T Zero" time is 1.1 seconds before liftoff. Times of other launch events are given in number of seconds after T Zero. Download image. The second Centaur burn, ...

LPI Earth and Space Science Education Newsletter

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View upcoming Earth and space science events, workshops, grants and awards, ways to participate, resources, and the latest science news, and subscribe to ... This summer, from July 30 through August 2, classroom teachers will actively engage in professional development presenting astronomy content which easily ...

Live coverage: SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth ...

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Jan 13, 2018 - Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of ... Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video. .... NASA Television coverage of the Dragon resupply flight has ended.

United Launch Alliance – Spaceflight Now

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A United Launch Atlas 5 rocket is set to dispatch NASA's InSight lander toward Mars, kicking off an interplanetary journey from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... a seaside launch complex at Cape Canaveral as engineers inside a tightly-controlled clean room a few miles away put the final touches on a NASA probe that will ...

Videos: Replays from successful Atlas 5 launch of TDRS-M ...

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Videos: Replays from successful Atlas 5 launch of TDRS-M. August 18, 2017 Justin Ray. Isolated camera views ...

Soyuz with three-man crew docks with space station – Spaceflight Now

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Dec 19, 2017 - The latest arrivals will be welcomed aboard by station commander Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba before a traditional video conference with friends and family gathered at the Russian mission control center near Moscow. “When we get there, in the first few hours, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe moonlights as asteroid sleuth – Spaceflight ...

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Feb 1, 2017 - On course to collect specimens from asteroid Bennu after its launch last year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will search this month for objects sharing an orbit with ... Astronomers using NASA's WISE infrared telescope confirmed the discovery of an asteroid in 2011 that fit the definition of an Earth-Trojan.

Space station crew looks forward to eclipse – Spaceflight Now

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Aug 11, 2017 - Credit: NASA. “We'll be north of Lake Huron in Canada when we'll be able to see the umbra, or the shadow of the eclipse, actually on the Earth, right around the Tennessee-Kentucky (area), the western side of both those states,” Bresnik said. “That'll be an opportunity for us to take video, and take still ...

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Even though InSight is stationary on the planet, its position in space will wobble slightly with Mars itself, as the planet spins on its axis. Scientists can use what they ... In this video lesson, students learn to design, build and launch paper rockets, calculate how high they fly and improve their designs. Grades 4-9. Time 1-2 hrs.

News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Even though InSight is stationary on the planet, its position in space will wobble slightly with Mars itself, as the planet spins on its axis. Scientists can ..... Scheduled to launch May 5, 2018, the InSight Mars lander will be equipped with several scientific instruments, including a heat flow probe and a seismometer. Together ...
MARS ROCKET MAY PRODUCE NOCTILUCENT EXHAUST: NASA is about to do something it has never done before. On Saturday morning, May 5th, sometime between 4:05 a.m. and 6:05 am PDT, the space agency will attempt to launch a rocket to Mars from the west coast of the USA. Liftoff of the Atlas 5 carrying the ...
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