All posts tagged "nasa"

  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye walks past a NASA logo during a tour of projects and programs that are underway at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Greenbelt, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
    Park visits NASA space flight center

    By Kim Kwang-tae WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday visited the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, a move that underscored South Korea’s efforts to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. on space initiatives. She...

    • Posted October 14, 2015
    • 0
  • This undated photo provided by NASA and taken by an instrument aboard the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks on the surface of Mars that scientists believe were caused by flowing streams of salty water. Researchers said Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, that the latest observations strongly support the longtime theory that salt water in liquid form flows down certain Martian slopes each summer. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona via AP)
    NASA discovers flowing water on Mars

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars appears to be flowing with rivulets of salty water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that boosts the odds of life on the red planet. “It...

    • Posted September 28, 2015
    • 0
  • The NASA Orion space capsule atop a Delta IV rocket, in its first unmanned orbital test flight, lifts off from the Space Launch Complex 37B pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
    NASA successfully launches Orion spacecraft

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new Orion spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles and ushered in a...

    • Posted December 5, 2014
    • 0
  • The picture released by the European Space Agency ESA shows the Rosetta mission poster which is a combination of various images to illustrate the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. from the Rosetta spacecraft. The image of the comet was taken with the navigation camera on Rosetta. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 the Philae lander will be detached from Rosetta to land on the comet. (AP Photo/ESA)
    Cosmic first: European spacecraft lands on comet

    DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — Landing with a bounce after traveling 4 billion miles, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully reaching the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — a cosmic first designed to answer...

    • Posted November 12, 2014
    • 1
  • An unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket explodes shortly after takeoff at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort. (AP Photo/Eastern Shore News, Jay Diem)
    NASA: Unmanned rocket explodes shortly after liftoff

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An unmanned commercial supply ship bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff Tuesday evening, with debris falling in flames over the launch site. No injuries were reported following the...

    • Posted October 28, 2014
    • 0
  • This Aug. 15, 2014, composite image released by NASA and made by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shows a view looking back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, during the summer of 2014. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, Cornell University, Arizona State University)
    NASA’s Mars Rover arrives at Mount Sharp

    PASADENA (CNS) – The Mars rover Curiosity arrived at its primary destination on the Red Planet and is set to begin a new phase of its scientific mission as it treks along a mountain the size of Mount Rainier,...

    • Posted September 11, 2014
    • 0
  • NASA satellite spots huge fires burning in N. Korea

    (Yonhap) — A satellite photo released by NASA Friday shows dozens of fires in North Korea, some of which appear to be wildfires. According to the imagery captured by the agency’s Aqua satellite on April 25, some...

    • Posted May 2, 2014
    • 0