NASA

Title: Smoke and fire RS 25 rocket engine test
Runtime: 46:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA conducted a developmental test firing of the RS-25 rocket engine, on August 13 at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The 535 second test was the sixth in the current series of seven-tests of the former space shuttle main engine. Four RS-25 engines will power the core stage of the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket , which will carry humans deeper into space than ever before, including to an asteroid and Mars.

Title: NASA Social - RS-25 Rocket Engine Test
Runtime: 1:44:10
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA invited social media users to John C. Stennis Space Center on August 13 to participate in a NASA Social and to experience the sixth developmental test of an RS-25 rocket engine. Four of the former space shuttle main engines will power the core stage of the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket , which will carry humans deeper into space than ever before, including to an asteroid and Mars. Participants not only saw and felt the power of the RS-25 engine test, but also got behind-the-scenes access to America’s largest rocket engine test facility and question and answer sessions with key personnel.

Space station crew members share experiences in space with Challenger Center students

Title: Space station crew members share experiences in space with Challenger Center students
Runtime: 20:29
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital laboratory during an in-flight educational event Aug. 13 with students gathered at the Challenger Center National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Lindgren arrived on the station three weeks ago and will remain on board until late December, while Kelly is in the fifth month of a year-long mission on the outpost with Russian crewmate Mikhail Kornienko, gathering valuable biomedical data that will be used in the formulation of a human mission to Mars.

Title: Perseid meteor shower on NASA TV
Runtime: 4:01:12
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: On August 12, meteor experts from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center provided commentary during NASA Television’s live coverage of the annual Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. Every August, the Earth passes through a cloud of the comet’s debris. This debris field consists of bits of ice and dust — most over 1,000 years old — and burns up in Earth’s atmosphere to create one of the best meteor showers of the year.

Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Conducts Traditional Ceremonies in Russia

Title: Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Conducts Traditional Ceremonies in Russia
Runtime: 4:04
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 45 Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency (Kazcosmos), and their backups, Oleg Skripochka and Sergei Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA visited the Gagarin Museum in Star City, Russia July 8, where they viewed historic space artifacts, then traveled to Red Square in Moscow to lay flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Volkov, Mogensen and Aimbetov are scheduled to launch on Sept. 2, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Conducts News Conference in Russia

Title: Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Conducts News Conference in Russia
Runtime: 25:03
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 45 Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency (Kazcosmos), and their backups, Oleg Skripochka and Sergei Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA visited the Gagarin Museum in Star City, Russia July 8, where they viewed historic space artifacts, then traveled to Red Square in Moscow to lay flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Volkov, Mogensen and Aimbetov are scheduled to launch on Sept. 2, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Space station crew member talks to Japanese media

Title: Space station crew member talks to Japanese media
Runtime: 18:59
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory with Japanese media gathered at JAXA’s headquarters in Tsukuba, Japan during an in-flight question and answer session Aug. 11. Yui arrived on the station almost three weeks ago and will remain on the orbital laboratory until late December.

Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside ISS

Title: Russian cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside ISS
Runtime: 3:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) conducted a spacewalk Aug. 10 to replace and upgrade experiment and communications equipment on the Russian segment of the complex, clean windows on the Zvezda Service Module and measure thruster plume contamination on the hull of the station.

Making milestones on the journey to Mars on This Week @NASA – August 7, 2015

Title: Making milestones on the journey to Mars on This Week @NASA – August 7, 2015
Runtime: 3:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrated the 3-year anniversary of its landing on Mars recently. Since landing, Curiosity has driven nearly seven miles to its current location at Mount Sharp, and found evidence of past conditions suitable for microbial life. To mark the anniversary, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that will bring the Mars experience to a new generation of explorers. “Mars Trek” is a free, web-based application that uses more than 40 years of Mars exploration data, to provide high-quality imagery of the planet’s features. "Experience Curiosity" is a 3-D simulation program that also uses real data, to take viewers along with Curiosity during the rover’s expeditions on the Martian surface. Since NASA’s robotic explorers became the first to study the Red Planet, advances in technology have enabled Mars exploration missions to continue making important scientific discoveries and pave the way for humans to reach Mars in the 2030s. Also, Newman visits composites t...

International Space Station Crew Member Discusses Life in Space with Japanese Students

Title: International Space Station Crew Member Discusses Life in Space with Japanese Students
Runtime: 16:30
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) discussed the first weeks of his five-month mission on the complex during an in-flight event August 7 with students and officials of Kokubunji City, Japan. Kokubunji City holds an special place in Japanese space exploration history as the location where experimental Japanese rocket launches first occurred 60 years ago. Yui arrived on the station in late July and will remain on board through late December.

International Space Station Crew Members Discuss Life in Space with Denver Colorado Media

Title: International Space Station Crew Members Discuss Life in Space with Denver Colorado Media
Runtime: 6:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren of NASA discussed life and scientific research on the outpost during an in-flight interview August 6 with KDVR-TV in Denver. Kelly is in the fifth month of a year-long mission on the station gathering valuable data on the long duration effect of weightlessness on the human body that will apply to the planning for a mission to Mars. Lindgren, who graduated with a Master of Science degree in cardiovascular physiology from Colorado State University in 1996 and a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Colorado in 2002, is in the initial weeks of a five-month mission on the orbital complex.

Title: NASA Live Stream
Runtime: 11:56:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

Closest rocky exoplanet confirmed on This Week @NASA – July 31, 2015

Title: Closest rocky exoplanet confirmed on This Week @NASA – July 31, 2015
Runtime: 3:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has helped astronomers confirm the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system. The planet, called HD 219134b, is a bit larger than Earth and located a mere 21 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation, near the North Star. While HD 219134b orbits too close to its star to sustain life, it is the closest exoplanet to Earth to be detected transiting, or crossing in front of, its star – which makes it perfect for extensive scientific research. The results of this discovery are the subject of a study accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Also, Exoplanet found far from its central star, Orion fairing separation tests, NEEMO 20 mission, California’s “rain debt” and Unmanned Air Traffic Management!

Space Station Crew Members Discuss Life in Space with Ohio Students

Title: Space Station Crew Members Discuss Life in Space with Ohio Students
Runtime: 20:22
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren of NASA discussed life and research on the orbital laboratory with students gathered at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio during an in-flight educational event July 31. Kelly is in the fifth month of a year-long mission on the station gathering valuable biomedical data on the effect of long periods of weightlessness on the human body that will be used to help formulate the planning for a future mission to Mars, while Lindgren is in the early days of his five-month flight on the outpost.

One Year Mission Crew Members Discuss Life and Research in Space

Title: One Year Mission Crew Members Discuss Life and Research in Space
Runtime: 20:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency discussed the progress of their year-long mission on the orbital complex with Fox News Channel’s “America’s News Headquarters” program and Reuters TV during a pair of in-flight interviews July 30. Kelly and Kornienko are now in the fifth month of their one-year mission, gathering valuable biomedical data on the effect of long periods of weightlessness on the human body that will be used to help formulate the planning for a future mission to Mars.

Title: SOFIA Captures Pluto Occultation
Runtime: 4:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: It is no easy task to capture the shadow of Pluto as it travels across the surface of Earth at more than 53,000 mph—but that is exactly what NASA scientists and flight crew did on the night of June 29, 2015. In a true team effort, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA's infrared telescope successfully observed the dwarf planet as it passed in front of a distant star. This event, known as an "occultation," allowed scientific analysis of Pluto and its atmosphere by flying SOFIA at the right moment to an exact location where Pluto's shadow fell on Earth. This video shows the careful planning and real time adaption of the observatory’s flight path leading up to observation, and highlights the data’s contributions to the New Horizons mission.

SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The aircraft is based at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center facility in Palmdale, California. NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffe...

NASA’s New Horizons Team Reveals New Scientific Findings on Pluto

Title: NASA’s New Horizons Team Reveals New Scientific Findings on Pluto
Runtime: 1:08:41
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: During a July 24 science update at NASA headquarters, new surprising imagery and science results were revealed from the recent flyby of Pluto, by the New Horizons spacecraft. These included an image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or (LORRI) – looking back at Pluto – hours after the historic flyby that shows haze in the planet’s sunlit atmosphere, that extends as high as 80 miles above Pluto’s surface – much higher than expected. Models suggest that the hazes form when ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart methane gas.

LORRI images also show evidence that exotic ices have flowed – and may still be flowing across Pluto’s surface, similar to glacial movement on Earth. This unpredicted sign of present-day geologic activity was detected in Sputnik Planum – an area in the western part of Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio.

Additionally, new compositional data from New Horizons’ Ralph instrument indicate that the center of Sputnik Planum...

NASA’s New Horizons Team Discusses New Science Findings on Pluto

Title: NASA’s New Horizons Team Discusses New Science Findings on Pluto
Runtime: 6:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: These key excerpts from a July 24 science update at NASA headquarters, features team members of NASA’s New Horizons mission discussing surprising new images and science results from the spacecraft’s historic July 14 flyby of Pluto.

New Horizons science update on This Week @NASA – July 24, 2015

Title: New Horizons science update on This Week @NASA – July 24, 2015
Runtime: 3:56
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A July 24 update at NASA headquarters, featured new surprising imagery and science results from the recent flyby of Pluto, by the New Horizons spacecraft. These included an image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager or (LORRI) – looking back at Pluto – hours after the historic flyby that revealed a haze in the planet’s sunlit atmosphere that extends as high as 80 miles above Pluto’s surface – much higher than expected. Models suggest that the hazes form when ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart methane gas. LORRI images also show evidence that exotic ices have flowed – and may still be flowing across Pluto’s surface, similar to glacial movement on Earth. This unpredicted sign of present-day geologic activity was detected in Sputnik Planum – an area in the western part of Pluto’s heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio. Additionally, new compositional data from New Horizons’ Ralph instrument indicate that the center of Sputnik Planum is rich in nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and m...

New Horizons: Congratulations from Brian May

Title: New Horizons: Congratulations from Brian May
Runtime: 0:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Rock Star/Astrophysicist Dr. Brian May congratulates NASA on a successful flyby of Pluto.

Expedition 44 Crew Opens Hatch And Enters The International Space Station

Title: Expedition 44 Crew Opens Hatch And Enters The International Space Station
Runtime: 16:42
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A few hours after docking, Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency opened hatches and were greeted by station Commander Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko. As the crew met face to face in orbit, the families of the newly arrived crew and American, Russian and Japanese space officials viewed the activities from a conference facility in Baikonur near the launch site.

Expedition 44 Crew Docks To The International Space Station

Title: Expedition 44 Crew Docks To The International Space Station
Runtime: 11:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency arrived at the International Space Station on July 23 following a four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous. They docked their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.

Expedition 44 Launches To The International Space Station

Title: Expedition 44 Launches To The International Space Station
Runtime: 14:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft on July 23, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of a five-month mission.

Expedition 44 Crew Meets Officials And Reporters As Launch Approaches

Title: Expedition 44 Crew Meets Officials And Reporters As Launch Approaches
Runtime: 57:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft on July 23, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a six-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of a five-month mission.

One Year Space Station Crew Discusses Life In Space With The News Media

Title: One Year Space Station Crew Discusses Life In Space With The News Media
Runtime: 19:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) discussed the progress of their year-long mission on the complex and life and research in orbit in a pair of in-flight interviews July 21 with CNBC News and the BBC’s “Futures” Program. Kelly and Kornienko are in the fourth month of their one-year mission to gather valuable biomedical data that will be used to craft a future human mission to Mars.

Expedition 44 Soyuz Rocket Moves to Its Launch Pad as the Crew Prepares for Launch

Title: Expedition 44 Soyuz Rocket Moves to Its Launch Pad as the Crew Prepares for Launch
Runtime: 17:41
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a railcar July 20 for final preparations before launch to the International Space Station on July 23, Kazakh time. The Soyuz TMA-17M will carry Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the orbital complex for a five-month mission. The footage also includes the crew’s final fit check activities and Baikonur museum visit July 17 and the mating of the booster’s stages July 19. Also included are interviews at the launch pad with Chris Cassidy, NASA Chief Astronaut; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration Operations; and Michael Suffredini, International Space Station Program Manager July 20.

New Horizons arrives at Pluto on This Week @NASA – July 17, 2015

Title: New Horizons arrives at Pluto on This Week @NASA – July 17, 2015
Runtime: 3:56
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: After a nearly decade-long journey, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft arrived at Pluto on July 14 – passing by at a mere 7,750 miles above the surface … resulting in an absolutely breathtaking image – the closest ever of Pluto. Initial congratulations included a Twitter post from the White House … and from iconic figures in the scientific community. The so-called “data waterfall” released by New Horizons contains so many astounding images and detailed information about Pluto that investigators anticipate it will take about 16 months to send it all back to Earth. Also, Mariner 4 Mars flyby anniversary, Newman sworn-in, New wildfire detection tool, Expedition 44/45 prepares for launch and 40th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz!

NASA News Conference on the New Horizons Mission

Title: NASA News Conference on the New Horizons Mission
Runtime: 55:44
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA officials and team members of the historic New Horizons mission to Pluto provide an update and share the latest developments on the spacecraft during a news conference from NASA headquarters.

Space Station Crew Talks About Life and Work on ISS

Title: Space Station Crew Talks About Life and Work on ISS
Runtime: 15:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) discussed the status of their research in orbit and other aspects of life on the orbital complex in a pair of in-flight interviews July 16 with WDRB-TV, Louisville, Kentucky, and the First Coast News Network in Florida. Kelly and Kornienko are in the fourth month of a year-long mission on the station gathering valuable biomedical data that will assist in the formulation of a future human mission to Mars.

Title: Seeing Pluto in a New Light
Runtime: 1:01:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a news conference featuring release of close-up images of Pluto’s surface and moons, and initial reactions from the New Horizons science team.

New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the “third” zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants.

Expedition 44 Crew Prepares for Launch in Kazakhstan

Title: Expedition 44 Crew Prepares for Launch in Kazakhstan
Runtime: 17:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, conducted pre-launch activities in preparation for their flight to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft on July 23, Kazakh time.

Signal Acquisition of New Horizons Spacecraft

Title: Signal Acquisition of New Horizons Spacecraft
Runtime: 6:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The New Horizons spacecraft "phoned home" around 9:00 p.m. EDT, July 14, 2015, indicating that it had successfully completed its historic flyby of Pluto earlier in the day. Team members at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, cheered as they received the flyby confirmation. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled for more than nine years and three billion miles to reach Pluto.

New Horizons Mission Update – July 14, 2015 (Evening)

Title: New Horizons Mission Update – July 14, 2015 (Evening)
Runtime: 41:22
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a status update of the spacecraft and its suite of instruments during New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto on July 14. The news briefing was broadcast from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

Title: New Horizon Phones Home
Runtime: 31:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA TV’s coverage of the historic New Horizons mission to Pluto included a the reaction to the transmission by the New Horizons spacecraft of a preprogrammed signal after its closest approach to Pluto.

Bastille Shout-Out for NASA's Bastille Day Pluto Flyby

Title: Bastille Shout-Out for NASA's Bastille Day Pluto Flyby
Runtime: 0:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Members of the band “Bastille” salute NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on its first-ever flyby of Pluto on June 14, 2015…which happens to also be Bastille Day!

One-Year Crewmember Talks About Life and Work on ISS

Title: One-Year Crewmember Talks About Life and Work on ISS
Runtime: 19:46
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 44 Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA discussed the status of his research in orbit and other aspects of life on the orbital complex in a pair of in-flight interviews July 14 with the Weather Channel and CNN International. Kelly and fellow one-year crewmate Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are in the fourth month of a year-long mission on the station gathering valuable biomedical data that will assist in the formulation of a future human mission to Mars.

The 40th Anniversary of the Historic Apollo-Soyuz Mission is Remembered

Title: The 40th Anniversary of the Historic Apollo-Soyuz Mission is Remembered
Runtime: 28:58
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Forty years ago on July 15, 1975, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and an American Apollo spacecraft lifted off from their respective launch sites in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov and astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton on a landmark mission to linkup their vehicles for the first time. The historic docking occurred on July 17, 1975, in what many consider the pinnacle moment of a flight that opened the door to international cooperation between the two countries and the birth of the International Space Station. The video includes interviews conducted in Moscow with Soyuz Commander Alexey Leonov in May 2014, and with Apollo Commander Tom Stafford conducted in Houston in June 2015, as well as highlights of the mission itself.

New Horizons Mission Update – July 14, 2015 (Morning)

Title: New Horizons Mission Update – July 14, 2015 (Morning)
Runtime: 42:36
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a status update of the spacecraft and its suite of instruments prior to New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto on July 14. The news briefing was broadcast from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

Title: New Horizons Arrives at Pluto
Runtime: 26:12
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At approximately 7:49 a.m. on July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to be as close as it will get to Pluto, approximately 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) above the surface. This historic moment is part of NASA’s coverage of New Horizons’ nine year, three billion mile journey to the Pluto system to gather data about Pluto and its moons.

New Horizons Mission Update - July 13, 2015

Title: New Horizons Mission Update - July 13, 2015
Runtime: 1:02:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description

The Flight of Apollo-Soyuz: 40th Anniversary

Title: The Flight of Apollo-Soyuz: 40th Anniversary
Runtime: 12:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Most of us take it for granted today that American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts live and work together in Earth orbit. They've been doing it for years, first in the Shuttle-Mir program, and now on the International Space Station. This orbital cooperation has grown to include partners in the European and Japanese space agencies, and will continue well into the next decade, as humanity learns about living off the home planet to prepare for longer journeys beyond Earth orbit.

But before the two Cold War-rivals first met in orbit in 1975, such a partnership seemed unlikely. Since Sputnik bleeped into orbit in 1957, the superpowers were driven by the Space Race, with the U.S. and then-Soviet Union driven more by competition than cooperation. When President Kennedy called for a manned moon landing in 1961, he spoke of "battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny" and referred to the "head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket eng...

July 12th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby

Title: July 12th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby
Runtime: 20:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: July 12th daily pre-flyby overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments and a summary of Pluto science to date from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

July 11th Daily Briefing for New Horizons:Pluto Mission Pre Flyby

Title: July 11th Daily Briefing for New Horizons:Pluto Mission Pre Flyby
Runtime: 16:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: July 11th daily pre-flyby overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments and a summary of Pluto science to date from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

Commercial crew astronauts on This Week @NASA – July 10, 2015

Title: Commercial crew astronauts on This Week @NASA – July 10, 2015
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA has selected four astronauts to work closely with two U.S. commercial companies that will return human spaceflight launches to Florida’s Space Coast. NASA named veteran astronauts and experienced test pilots Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams to work closely with Boeing and SpaceX. NASA contracted with Boeing and SpaceX to develop crew transportation systems and provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station. The agency will select the commercial crew astronauts from this group of four for the first test, which is scheduled for 2017. Also, NASA’s newest astronauts, New Horizons still on track,
Benefits for Humanity, Cargo ship arrives at space station, Training continues for next ISS crew and more!

July 10th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby

Title: July 10th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby
Runtime: 13:57
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: July 10th daily pre-flyby overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments and a summary of Pluto science to date from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

Expedition 44 Crew Departs for Kazakh Launch Site

Title: Expedition 44 Crew Departs for Kazakh Launch Site
Runtime: 8:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Expedition 44 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren and Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and their backups, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos, Tim Kopra of NASA and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, outside Moscow on July 10. Afterward, they departed for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete their training for the launch of Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft on July 23, Kazakh time for a five-month mission.

Title: Astronaut Scott Kelly Greets ComicCon
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: For the second year in a row, NASA is participating in ComicCon International in San Diego. NASA experts will take part in two panel discussions during the conference on Thursday, July 9. NASA's participation continues the agency's efforts to engage and inspire the next generation of American innovators and explorers in our #JourneyToMars.

Throughout history, imagination, the arts, entertainment and creativity have informed and in some cases driven innovation in science, technology and engineering. Seemingly fantastic ideas from Jules Verne and Arthur C. Clarke have helped drive innovators to develop the technologies used for space exploration today.

NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Space Flights

Title: NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Space Flights
Runtime: 12:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the selection of four astronauts to train and prepare for commercial spaceflights that will return American launches to U.S. soil and further open up low-Earth orbit transportation to the private sector. Experienced astronauts and test pilots Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams will work closely with The Boeing Company and SpaceX to develop their crew transportation systems and provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station (ISS). In a series of interviews, Behnken, Boe, Hurley and Williams discussed their thoughts on restoring a U.S. piloted launch capability, their selection and how the Commercial Crew Program will factor into future exploration plans for NASA and its commercial and international partners.

July 9th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby

Title: July 9th Daily Briefing for New Horizons/Pluto Mission Pre-Flyby
Runtime: 15:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: July 9th daily pre-flyby overview of the New Horizons mission, the spacecraft and its suite of instruments and a summary of Pluto science to date from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.

Title: Launching America
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Veteran NASA astronauts and experienced test pilots Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams have been selected to begin working closely with commercial spaceflight companies SpaceX and Boeing to prepare for future human flights on those companies’ vehicles. The first NASA astronauts for commercial crew test flights will be selected from this group.

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