Friday, April 28, 2017

“SLS Engine Section Test Article Loaded on Barge Pegasus” was uploaded to Flickr


A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge Pegasus at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The test article now will make its way from Michoud to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for structural loads testing. via NASA ift.tt/2qc60YS
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SLS Engine Section Test Article Loaded on Barge Pegasus was taken on April 27, 2017 at 05:26AM

Thursday, April 27, 2017

“Cassini Captures Closest Images of Saturn's Atmosphere” was uploaded to Flickr


Cassini Captures Closest Images of Saturn's Atmosphere via NASA ift.tt/2ozjMHC
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Cassini Captures Closest Images of Saturn's Atmosphere was taken on April 26, 2017 at 09:52PM

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

“Cygnus Spacecraft Approaches Space Station in the Sunset” was uploaded to Flickr


On Saturday April 22, 2017, Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station. Using the station's robotic Canadarm2, Cygnus was successfully captured by Pesquet and Commander Peggy Whitson at 6:05 a.m. EDT Saturday morning. via NASA ift.tt/2qf1WWY
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Cygnus Spacecraft Approaches Space Station in the Sunset was taken on April 22, 2017 at 04:59AM

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

“James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom” was uploaded to Flickr


It's springtime and the deployed primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope looks like a spring flower in full bloom. Once launched into space, the Webb telescope’s 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe. via NASA ift.tt/2oDRs37
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James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom was taken on April 13, 2017 at 05:06AM

Monday, April 24, 2017

“NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets Spaceflight Record” was uploaded to Flickr


534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson flew through the standing record for cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut at 1:27 a.m. EDT on April 24, 2017, and with the recent extension of her stay at the International Space Station, she has five months to rack up a new one. via NASA ift.tt/2pcSZQM
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NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets Spaceflight Record was taken on December 03, 2016 at 09:24AM

Friday, April 21, 2017

“NASA's Fleet of Satellites Keep an Eye on Earth” was uploaded to Flickr


NASA's fleet of 18 Earth science missions in space, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person around the world. This visualization shows the NASA fleet in 2017. via NASA ift.tt/2plZ9yK
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NASA's Fleet of Satellites Keep an Eye on Earth was taken on April 21, 2017 at 05:10AM

Thursday, April 20, 2017

“Expedition 51 Launch to the International Space Station” was uploaded to Flickr


The Soyuz MS-04 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 1:13 p.m. Baikonur time carrying NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos into orbit to begin their four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. via NASA ift.tt/2oq0hxi
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Expedition 51 Launch to the International Space Station was taken on April 20, 2017 at 09:13AM