Category: Video of the Day

For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A…

  NASA designed a new spacecraft called CubeSat, and also the Lunar Flashlight, with the mission of finding ice on the Moon’s south pole region with laser beams. “As astronauts explore the Moon during the upcoming Artemis program, they may need to make use of the resources that already exist on the lunar surface. Take water, for instance: Because it’s a heavy and…

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory To understand changes in our world, we need to observe from different perspectives. In time for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, this month’s show will focus on how NASA monitors global change — from orbit, as you’d expect, but also from closer to the ground, with aircraft, boats and buoys. This webcast show will be…