The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will fly as a hosted payload aboard a Department of Defense spacecraft as part of the Space Test Program (STP-3) mission. LCRD will continue NASA's exploration of laser...

Last year, Beijing sent 55 missions into space, compared to America’s 43 missions, which consisted mostly of SpaceX launches.

This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.

MOT 1943: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CAMPAIGN: KISKA BOMBING: VS Flying over Kiska island, United States Army Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomb bay doors opening, pilots aiming, artillery bombs dropping away, clouds. WWII, World War II, Pacific...

NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies...

As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be...

In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns.

GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the...

It doesn’t get deadlier than this – Kayne has to give a deadly Box Jellyfish a manicure!

This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with mapping the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the...

Cynthia Simmons - Instrument Project Manager in the Flight Projects Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center



The Women@NASA project is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women from across the agency who contribute to...

Just as cars need maintenance on Earth, sometimes spacecraft need fixing, too. 🛠️ When astronauts work on spacecraft in orbit, it's called space servicing.



Want to know more about space servicing?...

Flying low over the Earth’s southernmost continent, Operation IceBridge is wrapping up its eighth consecutive field season of mapping the ice sheet and glaciers of Antarctica, as well as the surrounding sea ice. With more than 300...

Badri Younes is the deputy associate administrator for Space Communication Navigation. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite project, or TDRS, is building the follow-on and replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and...

Kelly Fast gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.

Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions returned to Earth with Moon rocks. It was hoped that they would unlock lunar secrets but they also ended up teaching scientists more about the creation of the Earth and the universe beyond

In this reverse episode, Kayne challenges Brandon to help save animals that live in the city or get into a spot of bother living alongside humans.

Spiders – it’s one of the largest phobias people have around the world. So how will Kayne & Kamil go when they have to come face to face with a Giant Whistling Tarantula!

Whether you're relying on the careful observations of 1950s amateur astronomers and backyard telescopes or state-of-the-art GPS tracking and navigation technology: knowing where you are in space means needing to know what time it is.

As of April 6, 2011, crew and scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission have completed eight out of nine planned sea ice flights from Thule, Greeenland, and plan to fly one more from Kangerlussuaq. Michael Studinger, IceBridge...

David Littmann is the project manager for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS. The project is building the follow-on and replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s Space Network. The third satellite of the...

James Webb Space Telescope Program Director Greg Robinson discusses NASA's largest and most powerful space science telescope ever constructed.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (recently the subject of a television adaptation with George Clooney in the role of the ruthlessly ambitious Colonel Cathcart for US streaming service Hulu) is one of the classic books of the twentieth...

Watch "Return to Venus - Part I" at:From Galileo and the Heliocentric model of the Solar System to James Hansen and climate research, observations of the planet Venus throughout history have given us the perspective we need to...