The following are statements from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John P. Holdren about the berthing of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: „Today, with the successful berthing of the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo module to … Dowiedz się więcej
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe. The ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is packed with an extraordinary number of stars and may be the densest galaxy near Earth. It is providing astronomers … Dowiedz się więcej
You can watch the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station at a special viewing party at the Gilruth Center, located on NASA’s Johnson Space Center campus, starting at 2:45 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the facility’s Alamo Ballroom. The public entrance to the Gilruth Center is off Space Center Blvd., … Dowiedz się więcej
NASA has selected six companies from five U.S. states to participate in a government-and-industry partnership to advance composite materials research and certification. The companies are: • Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas • GE Aviation of Cincinnati • Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, Calif. • Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems of Redondo Beach, … Dowiedz się więcej
NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., successfully launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 10:58 a.m. EDT Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This is the first time a spacecraft launched from Virginia is blazing a trail toward the International … Dowiedz się więcej
Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will postpone by at least 24 hours the launch of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station. The new launch window is targeted for Wednesday, Sept. 18 between 10:50 to 11:05 a.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s … Dowiedz się więcej