On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced it had re-classified Pluto as a dwarf planet. From 1930 until then, Pluto had been considered a normal planet and the outermost planet of the solar system. As technology had advanced, though, astronomers could see fainter objects. Did they reclassifyRead More →
Twelve people have walked on the Moon, all of them as part of the Apollo program. Four of them are still living as of October 2021. All of the crewed Apollo lunar landings took place between July 1969 and December 1972. … Alan Shepard was the oldest person to walkRead More →
NASA in April awarded SpaceX with the sole contract for the agency’s Human Landing System program under a competitive process. Worth $2.9 billion, the SpaceX contract will see the company use its Starship rocket to deliver astronauts to the moon’s surface for NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions. Are NASA and SpaceXRead More →
For more than 50 years, NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston has led our nation and the world on a continuing adventure of human exploration, discovery and achievement. What is the difference between Space Center Houston and Johnson Space Center? If you are visiting Houston in Texas,Read More →
NASA consists of its Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and 10 field centers. … Arizona, Southern California. … California. … Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. … Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, … Eastern Shore of Virginia, Maryland & Delaware. Where does NASA have their launch facilities?Read More →
Jellyfish To induce the polyps to swim freely and reproduce, astronauts injected chemicals into the bags aboard the Columbia space shuttle — by the time the mission ended, over 60,000 jellyfish were living in space! Would a jellyfish survive in space? Non-terrestrial animals like jellyfish even have a hard timeRead More →
1965: Mission Control Transfers to Houston | NASA. What wartime work was done at Langley? Construction of Langley Field actually began in 1917, but the chaos of mobilizing for war in Europe delayed completion of the NACA’s facilities for three years. Operational at Langley in 1922, the Variable Density TunnelRead More →
1965: Mission Control Transfers to Houston | NASA. What wartime work was done at Langley? Construction of Langley Field actually began in 1917, but the chaos of mobilizing for war in Europe delayed completion of the NACA’s facilities for three years. Operational at Langley in 1922, the Variable Density TunnelRead More →