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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, ESA, James Webb Space Telescope, Space Exploration, astronomy, European Space Agency, James Webb TelescopeJames Webb’s Critical Science Component Completes Essential Tests, While Telescope Is “Optically Complete”
Less than 36 months from its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) collaboration touted as “Hubble’s successor,” continues to take shape right on schedule. Yesterday, NASA announced that the telescope’s Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), described as the “scientific heart” of JWST, has […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Mars, Space, Science, Space Exploration, InSight, InSightNASA Eyes May 2018 for InSight Mars Lander Launch, Pending Instrument Redesign
In December, those following the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission, planned to launch on a trek to Mars this month aboard a ULA Atlas-V launch vehicle, were disappointed when it was announced that the mission would be suspended due to a vacuum leak in a critical science component. However, […] More
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in AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Science, ESA, Space Exploration, European Space Agency, Comets, Solar System, Rosetta
Goodnight, Sweet Philae: Bid to Reawaken Rosetta’s Lander Near Impossible
It would have been a heroic coda to an already ambitious, historic mission, but alas, it was not meant to be. For the past few months, controllers at Germany’s DLR (the German Aerospace Center) have been sending commands to Philae, Rosetta’s lander, which touched down not once, but three times upon the surface of Comet […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Science, ESA, JWST, James Webb Space Telescope, Space Exploration, European Space Agency, James Webb TelescopeAll Webb Telescope’s 18 Primary Gold-Coated Mirrors Now Installed to Unravel Mysteries of the Universe
Construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) collaborative project, continues to shape up in early 2016. NASA announced today that all of the observatory’s primary mirror segments are now installed. At Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the 18th and last segment […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Kennedy Space Center, Space Exploration, Columbia, astronaut, ChallengerCity of Titusville Astronaut Memorial Ceremony Wraps Up Somber Week of Anniversaries, Remembrances
The dates marked Jan. 27, 28, and Feb. 1 are downcast days in U.S. spaceflight history (and U.S. history, period), but they’re even more significant for the people in and around Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Many space center families, current and past workers, and local residents remember the tremendous personal losses that occurred on these […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Kennedy Space Center, Boeing, SpaceX, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, CCAFS, Space Exploration, Commercial Crew Development Program, astronaut, Commercial SpaceNASA Outlines Commercial Crew Goals Critical for Upcoming Test Flights
In 2015, both Boeing and SpaceX—NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partners—received orders for spaceflights to restore the United States’ capability to launch since the end of the shuttle program in July 2011. In 2016, both companies must achieve critical goals to make 2017 test flights—and 2018 International Space Station (ISS) flights—possible. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, KSCVC, Space Exploration, Atlantis, astronautStill an ‘Inspiration’: Space Shuttle Mockup Moved, Will Undergo Upgrades
In collaboration with collectSPACE Changes are taking place along NASA Causeway, the stretch of road leading to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida’s Brevard County. For those who have driven past the former Space Camp Florida/U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame building in Titusville, the space shuttle mockup “Inspiration” has been a grand roadside vision […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, Space, Science, Goddard, ESA, James Webb Space Telescope, European Space Agency, James Webb TelescopeWebb Telescope Component Completes Critical Tests as Mirror Installations Continue
Less than three years from its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), continues to take shape. As 2015 rolled into 2016, engineers working on the JWST have been busy testing one of its essential science components. On Wednesday, […] More
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in News, NASA, Spaceflight, Orion, Space, Kennedy Space Center, Space Launch System, Space Exploration, SLS, EM-1First SLS Work Platform Installed in KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building High Bay 3
It’s the mammoth building that has captured the imaginations of visitors, space fans, and space workers alike: NASA Kennedy’s iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). It’s the building that housed the Apollo era’s mighty Moon-bound Saturn-V rockets, and for over 30 years it was where space shuttle stacks were put together. While it’s the same building […] More
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in News, NASA, Spaceflight, Space, Science, ESA, James Webb Space Telescope, Space Exploration, European Space Agency, Technology, Launch, James Webb TelescopeAriane 5 Contracted for Early Morning Webb Telescope Launch from Amazon in October 2018
While 2015 saw the space community celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world’s premier space telescope (the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST), another space telescope hit major development milestones on terra firma – the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a NASA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and European Space Agency (ESA) collaboration. On Thursday, Dec. 17, […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, JPL, ESA, Juno, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Europa, Jupiter, Jupiter Icy Moon ExplorerMore Voyages To Jupiter: As Juno Inches Closer To Gas Giant, JUICE Comes Closer To Reality
While one NASA/JPL spacecraft is less than a year out from its rendezvous with our Solar System’s largest gas giant, another Jupiter-bound spacecraft is making its way from the drawing board to becoming science reality. On Wednesday, Dec. 9, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Defence & Space announced that they had signed the […] More
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The Other Side of Spaceflight: An Interview with Rick Houston, Co-Author of ‘Go, Flight!’
The stories of astronauts’ accomplishments—especially during the Apollo era, which saw humans land and walk on another world for the first (and hopefully not last) time—have been recounted many times in spaceflight history. However, a recently-published University of Nebraska Press book (another in the Outward Odyssey spaceflight series) tells the incredible stories of those who […] More
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