Suit Up – 50 Years of Spacewalks
This NASA documentary celebrates 50 years of extravehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalks that began with the first two EVAs conducted by Russian Alexey Leonov in March 1965 and American astronaut […]
Language: English
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Suit Up – 50 Years of Spacewalks
Countdown to T-Zero: How Do We Prepare a Spacecraft for Launch – TESS Mission?
Revisit the April 18, 2018, launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS is already scanning the skies, identifying planet candidates that may […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: How Do We Prepare a Spacecraft for Launch – TESS Mission?
Photon Jump
Pho, a plucky bright green photon of light, must travel from a NASA spacecraft down to Earth and back again to help complete a crucial science mission in this educational […]
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Photon Jump
Artemis I: We Are Capable
Twin solid rocket boosters that will produce a combined 7.2 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, a towering core stage, and the only human-rated spacecraft in the world capable of […]
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Artemis I: We Are Capable
Artemis I: We Are Ready
The journey of half a million miles – the first flight of the Artemis Generation – is about to begin. The uncrewed Artemis I mission will jump-start humanity’s return to […]
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Artemis I: We Are Ready
Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
Landsat is not the only satellite orbiting Earth and sending back data. It takes a team of data sets to get the full picture of what’s happening down on the […]
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Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
Why Bennu?
The goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. But just how did the OSIRIS-REx team choose Bennu from […]
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Why Bennu?
Space Place in a Snap: What Is a Nebula?
Nebulae are far away from Earth. We know what they look like because scientists use powerful telescopes to capture images of them. A nebula can take many different forms and […]
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Space Place in a Snap: What Is a Nebula?
What Is A CubeSat?
Learn the basics of CubeSats, the small spacecraft that schools, universities and institutions are designing and building to perform missions previously requiring massive, expensive satellites.
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What Is A CubeSat?
Space Place in a Snap: What Causes Sea Level Rise?
People have been measuring local sea level at certain locations along the coasts for hundreds of years. And NASA has been measuring the global sea level for almost three decades. […]
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Space Place in a Snap: What Causes Sea Level Rise?
Space Place in a Snap: What is a Black Hole?
In this episode, find out how what a black hole is, how they can form, and why they are so cool!
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Space Place in a Snap: What is a Black Hole?
The Space Shuttle (Narrated by William Shatner)
An idea born in unsettled times becomes a feat of engineering excellence. The most complex machine ever built to bring humans to and from space and eventually construct the next […]
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