06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA's
Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our
home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
European Space Agency YouTube Update
European Space Agency Flickr Update
18-06-2013 04:26 PM CEST
ATV Albert Einstein, Europe's supply and support ferry, docked with the International Space Station on 16 June 2013, some ten days after its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
In this image you can see ATV's four solar panel arrays along with the vertical antenna on top. This antenna is the 'proximity boom' that is used to communicate with the Station.
ATV Albert Einstein brought 7 tonnes of supplies, propellants and experiments to the complex. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano oversees the unloading and cataloguing of the cargo of over 1400 individual items.
Credits: ESA/NASA
NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT
First American Woman in Space
06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT
On
June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in
space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7.
As
one of the three mission specialists on the STS-7 mission, she played a
vital role in helping the crew deploy communications satellites, conduct
experiments and make use of the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite.
In this image, Dr. Ride sits in the aft flight deck mission specialist's seat during deorbit preparations. › Read more about Sally Ride's historic flight.
Image Credit: NASA
As
one of the three mission specialists on the STS-7 mission, she played a
vital role in helping the crew deploy communications satellites, conduct
experiments and make use of the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite.In this image, Dr. Ride sits in the aft flight deck mission specialist's seat during deorbit preparations. › Read more about Sally Ride's historic flight.
Image Credit: NASA
Talking Alphasat
Kansas Students to Speak Live With Space Station NASA Astronauts
06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Expedition
36 crew members and NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg,
currently orbiting aboard the International Space Station, will speak
with students gathered at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center at
9:40 a.m. CDT (10:40 a.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 19.
Amazing ATV
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