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Johnson Space Center Apollo Video (Updated 8/24)
The JSC Apollo Video Collection has been updated with 5 must-see documentaries about Apollo 11 and Apollo 17. Below is the award winning documentary view of the Apollo 17 journey to Taurus-Littrow, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo Program. Watch the rest of the videos after the break. Apollo 17: On the [...]
Johnson Space Center Media Archive (Updated 8/16)
NASA Images is proud to present the Johnson Space Center Media Archive! We have been working with Johnson Space Center for a long time to bring their amazing collections of media to nasaimages.org, and now you can check out the first 308 high resolution images. When we say high resolution, we mean it – some [...]
Apollo 11 41st Anniversary
Today marks the 41st anniversary of Apollo 11, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on another world. There are a few ways you can celebrate Apollo 11 today. Make sure to visit nasa.gov and check out the Apollo 11 page for an animated comic, videos, a lunar [...]
Pioneer 10 Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt. “On March 2, 1972, engineers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center launched Pioneer 10 from the Cape Kennedy, carrying Earth’s first space probe to an outer planet. This launch was just one of the many historic missions started by Glenn’s [...]
Friendship 7
On February 20, 1962 at 9:47:39 am EST, NASA launched John Herschel Glenn, Jr. into Earth orbit on the spacecraft Friendship 7. Glenn orbited the earth three times and re-entered the earths atmosphere 4 hours, 55 min, 23 seconds later, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean about 800 miles south east of Bermuda. Friendship 7, [...]
America’s First Spacecraft
“Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using its Jupiter C rocket developed under the direction [...]
A New Chapter on the Red Planet
Now a Stationary Research Platform, NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit Starts a New Chapter in Red Planet Scientific Studies “After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during [...]
Great Images: from the Kepler Launch to a Rare Venus Transit
This week we have nine new galleries which means about 500 new images, Including this beautiful ASTER image of Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona: ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) is an imaging instrument flying on Terra, a satellite launched in December 1999 as part of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS). [...]
Thousands of New Images and Video
As promised last week, we have loads of new content! We have nearly 4,000 new images and video in the following collections: -Ames Research Center image library -Dryden Flight Research Center -NASA’s Featured Image Collection -Goddard Space Flight Center -Ares I-X Rocket
