December 11, 2017 will mark the 45th anniversary of the day NASA's Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon. This video connects that history to the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission through the eyes of astronaut...

This video is answering the question of are there different types of astronaut.

GOES-P is set to launch in 2010. It will be the last in an improved series of satellites that has helped forecast the development of severe weather for 35 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-P will continue providing...

Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument will allow us to see activity inside the sun and even on the other side of the sun.

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How do scientists plan to get astronauts to Mars when space radiation is so strong? What can be done about it?

During the STS-125 pre-launch press conference Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its...

On May 11, 2009, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to make NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope more powerful than ever before.
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Hubble's Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) was the most ambitious and...

What was originally conceived as a mission of preventive maintenance turned more urgent on Nov. 13, 1999, when the fourth of six gyros failed and Hubble temporarily closed its eyes on the universe....

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission concluded with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. This 1969 documentary showcases how NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, supported the historic...

In addition to monitoring weather on Earth, the GOES-R satellites will monitor weather in space caused by electromagnetic radiation and charged particles released from solar storms on the Sun. Many people rely on space weather data,...

Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be...

In February 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — is celebrating its 10th year in space. Over the past decade the spacecraft has kept a constant eye on the Sun, studying how the Sun creates solar activity and...

After landing on the Moon in February 1971, the Apollo 14 astronauts set out on a hike toward Cone crater. Navigating this terrain proved to be a difficult task, and they didn’t quite reach the crater edge, but they did...

Explore the second half of the exhibit hallway in the Hubble control center to view hardware that once flew in space aboard Hubble as well as tools that astronauts used to repair and upgrade the observatory. This is part 5 of...

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman told the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event...

NASA’s Human Space Flight Network stands ready to support the launch of astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, coordinating communications across multiple...

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



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Over the years, Hubble video producer Paul Morris has had the amazing opportunity to interview some of the brightest minds in astrophysics, and some of the coolest astronauts and people in the...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's planned return to the moon. LRO is an unmanned mission to create the comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources necessary to design all future lunar...

Explore the second half of the exhibit hallway in the Hubble control center to view hardware that once flew in space aboard Hubble as well as tools that astronauts used to repair and upgrade the observatory. This is part 5 of...

Our planet is nestled in the center of two doughnut-shaped regions of powerful, dynamic radiation: the Van Allen belts, where high-energy particles are trapped by Earth’s magnetic field. Depending on incoming radiation from the...

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most...

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later...

Kate Rubins, NASA astronaut and flight engineer for the upcoming Expedition 64 mission on the International Space Station, details her passion for science, and her previous experience on the station, and her anticipation of conducting...