Down to Earth: Homecoming
In the final episode featuring astronaut Victor Glover and his daughter, Corinne, they discuss the excitement of returning to Earth from an extended mission on the International Space Station.
Language: English
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Down to Earth: Homecoming
Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S – Ready to Roll
NOAA’s GOES-S is encapsulated in its payload fairing inside Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, and transported to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S – Ready to Roll
Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: T-0
NASA’s Launch Services Program, or LSP, and United Launch Alliance work together to move the Atlas V rocket – payload and all – to the launch pad and launch! Years […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: T-0
Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Launch Fever
NOAA’s GOES-S spacecraft, the next in a series of advanced weather satellites, arrives at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a U.S. Air Force C-5 Super Galaxy aircraft. The satellite’s arrival […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Launch Fever
Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Special Delivery
NOAA’s GOES-S spacecraft is one step closer in the final journey to T-zero, as the booster and Centaur upper stage arrive for inspection. These components will be used to stack […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Special Delivery
Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Rocket Science
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket reaches another major milestone on the road to T-Zero, as NOAA’s GOES-S spacecraft prepares for launch. Stacking the rocket begins with the booster […]
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Countdown to T-Zero: GOES-S: Rocket Science
Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
We look back on this bold undertaking, which featured helicopters, floating drifters plunging into holes in the ice, and all-night shifts operating a sonic boogie board under endless daylight.
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Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Designing Webb
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made – and the most complex one yet designed. Did you know that the telescope’s history stretches back […]
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Designing Webb
Down to Earth: The Astronaut’s Perspective
NASA’s astronauts will take you on a journey to the International Space Station, exploring the life-changing experience of an orbital perspective.
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Down to Earth: The Astronaut’s Perspective
Down to Earth: Changing Your Perspective
In this episode of Down to Earth, veteran astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams sits down with environmental studies student, Adrien Prouty, to discuss her previous missions, and what it was like […]
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