NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 37/38 flight engineer, uses virtual reality hardware in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to rehearse some of his duties on the upcoming mission to the International Space Station.
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This is pretty cool, the NASA Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has released a free iBook about space junk.
The NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) is excited to announce the public release of Orbital Debris Management and Risk Mitigation, its first publication of NASA training materials using the iBook format.
Otherwise known as orbital debris, space junk can damage spacecraft while on missions and poses safety threats to astronauts…
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Some of you who grew up in the 90s, as we at UPT did, may remember the Wing Commander computer games. Fighting against the feline-esque Kilrathi you were aboard a…
Read More...Astronaut Ron Garan shared this video this evening. If you take one thing away from this let it be that space exploration is not over. We’re just getting started. Posted by Dennis…
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Felix Baumgartner and Joe Kittinger talked about the Red Bull Stratos mission for an interview with CNN this morning at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. Felix will…
Read More...You ever wonder how we know the distance to stars and galaxies millions of light years away? The Royal Observatory Greenwich made this animated video that explains the principles and…
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“The Future Brought to You by NASA” is an infographic developed for the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist to describe their Space Technology Roadmaps.
Read More...We are the “new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth”.
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On Thursday, March 29 2012, John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios was at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) for the induction into the NASM collection of a toy Buzz Lightyear that has flown on the International Space Station (ISS)…
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Yuri’s Night is an annual celebration on April 12th to honor Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and to toast all those involved in making human spaceflight a reality. DC had several parties, these photos are from the Science Club party.
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