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NASA Aiming for Multiple Missions to Jupiter Moon Europa NASA Aiming for Multiple Missions to Jupiter Moon Europa NASA's highly anticipated mission to Europa in the next decade may be just the beginning of an ambitious campaign to study the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon. In the early to...

A U.S. Marine Osprey sends up a big wash of rain as as it lands near the Bavarian town of Kruen, Germany, June 8, 2015. The Ospreys provided transport to Air Force One in Munich for members of President Obama's staff, Secret Service, White House Press Corps and other personnel at the conclusion...

NASA tests DARPA Challenge robot for space manufacturing NASA tests DARPA Challenge robot for space manufacturing | Computerworld Team JPL's Robosimian robot. NASA has big plans for the robot its JPL team used to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals last weekend. The space agency...

See How SpaceX Astronauts Could Survive a Failed Launch A few weeks ago, SpaceX successfully tested the launch abort system for its new commercial crew capsule, which is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. The company has just released a first-person view...

75 Million-Year-Old Blood Cells Found in Dinosaur Fossils Dinosaurs fossils, we’ve all been taught, consist of bone—their flesh, skin, and organs having decayed long ago. But a new discovery might upend that assumption: Scientists have found evidence of blood cells with the protein intact...

Flying (Mostly) Friendly Skies: Northrop Grumman Developing Airplane to Cruise Atmosphere of Venus Flying (Mostly) Friendly Skies: Northrop Grumman Developing Airplane to Cruise Atmosphere of Venus « AmericaSpace With so much attention now on the rovers and spacecraft at Mars, Saturn...

New Oxygen Preburner Firings a Major Step Toward Rekindling US Hydrocarbon Rocket Engine Leadership New Oxygen Preburner Firings a Major Step Toward Rekindling US Hydrocarbon Rocket Engine Leadership « AmericaSpace The U.S. Air Force (USAF) and its rocket engine contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne...

SLS Main Engine Test Fire Round Two Ignites With 450-Second Burn at Stennis Space Center SLS Main Engine Test Fire Round Two Ignites With 450-Second Burn at Stennis Space Center « AmericaSpace NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is quickly manifesting into reality. Its solid rocket...

Hubble Reveals Fascinating and Chaotic Properties of Pluto's Moons Hubble Reveals Fascinating and Chaotic Properties of Pluto’s Moons « AmericaSpace Using a set of archival data that were taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. astronomers were able to conduct the most comprehensive and...

Honestly, I'm not sure, it's probably from Apollo 17 though. I pluck the pic from NASA.gov, I'll track down its info for you. Vandenburg AFB - these are military launches

GRAIL Mission Overview The GRAIL mission will place two spacecraft into the same orbit around the Moon. As they fly over areas of greater and lesser gravity, caused both by visible features such as mountains and craters and by masses hidden beneath the lunar surface, they will move...

OV-104 Atlantis

OV-105 Endeavour... again

STS-134 Endeavour

Atlas V The Atlas V 401 Launch Vehicle is a part of the flight proven Atlas V 400/500 family that is being operated by United Launch Alliance. Atlas V rockets are flown since 2002 and have a near-perfect success rate (one flight was a partial failure, however the mission was catalogued as a...

Neutral Buoyancy Lab training facility NASA - Neutral Buoyancy Lab Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA is 202 feet (62m) long, 101 feet (31m) wide and 40 feet (12m) deep and is used to train personnel for spacewalks.

LLRV The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle’s (LLRV), humorously referred to as “flying bedsteads,” were created by a predecessor of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon’s airless environment...

A handy guide to the U-2 spy plane - for info on U-2 variants

Orion launch Congratulations NASA!!! Orion successfully tested!!!