To prepare for Servicing Mission 4, Hubble components must endure harsh tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This feature explores test facilities at Goddard like: launch phase simulator centrifuge, the acoustic test chamber,...

OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itself. It will also investigate the asteroid's chance of impacting Earth in...

Judith Bruner - Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Goddard Space Flight Center



The Women@NASA project is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women from across the agency who contribute to NASA’s mission in many...

These profiles begin to explore what systems engineering is as seen through the roles of Benjamin Reed and Jackie Townsend on the Hubble Space Telescope. Reed is a materials assurance engineer who has a background in chemistry and has...

IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our Solar System called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out of the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...

Final preparations are underway for the exciting and challenging final mission to repair Hubble. Liftoff is scheduled for May 11 at 2:01 p.m. EDT, and the countdown clock will start at 4 p.m. Friday.



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NASA's launching a new mission this summer designed to better understand air pollution and gather data that could allow pollutants to be monitored more exactly from space. The field study coined, "Discover-AQ", will take place over...

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...

Fun 3D animated learning episodes to support the early years development areas of Mathematics. Millie Maths is a Super Geek Hero on a mission to learn! Millie introduces numbers and counts from 1 to 10 using different coloured shapes. A...

Janelle Wellons likes to say that she operates “fancy space cameras.” At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she creates commands that allow spacecraft to take valuable scientific data in our solar system and here at planet Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our...

When it comes to a NASA mission, it is not just about the science and engineering but it is also important to educate the public about the program. In this video television crews work night and day to make sure that the audience is...

Jim Garvin gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.<br/>

Part 4 of Dr. Garvin's talk includes a hypothetical trip to a near-Earth object, a look at NASA's explorations of our own place in the solar system, planet Earth, and an introduction to what makes Mars such a fascinating place to...

In late August, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will navigate to asteroid Bennu’s surface for its first sample collection attempt. To do this, it will use an onboard image software known as Natural...

After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas.



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Observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor — but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.



Europa harbors a vast ocean underneath...

Interview with 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award manufacturing recipient Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies President, Anthony Brancato, III, on the organization's success and world-class results achieved from...

A fact-filled look at 23 of the most important events from man's on-going adventure in space. 1982, the first US woman was sent into space. Comets smash into Jupiter and the impacts of this were recorded. Space Facts. Part 7

The European Space Agency has commissioned the world’s first mission to capture a piece of space debris from Earth's orbit in 2025.

At WSJ Tech Live in Laguna Beach, Anousheh Ansari, the CEO of XPRIZE and Aicha Evans, the CEO of Zoox discuss what will keep the engine of tech innovation running in an era of skeptical users and wary regulators.

The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration -- going from ground-based radar images from Arecibo in Puerto Rico all the way to orbiting a few hundred meters...

Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016 and now (August, 2018) is entering its approach phase. OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in December, 2018. OSIRIS-REx will help unveil the...