Powtawche Valerino is a guidance engineer who works for Aerodyne Industries at the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, supporting the agency’s Space Launch System program. She has worked at four different NASA facilities as an intern and as a full-time employee or contractor at Stennis Space […]
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, low center, as it transits across the face of the Sun, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, from Washington, D.C. Mercury’s last transit was in 2016. The next won’t happen again until 2032. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2011年11月11日，星期一，在华盛顿特区，水星在穿过太阳表面的过程中出现了一个低中心的剪影。水星
A student from Sinte Gleska University, an accredited tribal university on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, works to build a model rover for a NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) rover competition at the 2018 American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Conference. View the
This week in 1967, the Apollo 4 mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission marked the first launch of the Saturn V rocket. Mission objectives included testing of structural integrity, compatibility of rocket and spacecraft, heat shield and thermal seal integrity, overall reentry
iss061e028414 (Nov. 4, 2019) — The U.S. Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it was installed to the Unity module for 70 days of cargo transfers. iss061e028414(2019年11月4日)——被安装到Unity模块进行70天的货物运输的加拿大机械臂-2（Canadarm2），成功捕获了来自诺斯罗普·格鲁
Orson John started his career at NASA as a summer intern, continued as a NASA Pathways student, and began a career at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as an engineer after college. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 2010 from the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technol
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Virginia. This is Northrop Grumman’s 12th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, and is delivering
When astronaut John Herrington made his voyage to space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour’s STS-113 mission, he became the first Native American in space. An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, Herrington carried its flag on his 13-day trip to space, as well as several personal items with hi
From the vantage point of space aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan captured this image of a California wildfire. On his Facebook page, he said: “From the International Space Station I was able to catch these pictures of the California wildfires burning north o
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is seen as it rolls out to Pad-0A, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 12th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,200 pounds of science and rese
