Three astronauts of the International Space Station Expedition 41 crew will conduct two spacewalks outside the…
Month: September 2014
Rocket Boosters Prepared For Orion Spacecraft’s First Flight
Engineers took another step forward in preparations for the first test flight of NASA’s new Orion…
200 wounded, ill and injured service members competing in Colorado Springs, Colorado
The 2014 Warrior Games officially opened today at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado,…
NASA Expands Commercial Space Program, Requests Proposals for Second Round of Cargo Resupply Contracts for International Space Station
On the heels of awarding groundbreaking contracts to U.S. commercial space companies to ferry American astronauts…
Thomas Pesquet participates in a training session
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet participates in an advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) training session…
Landing site J in Rosetta’s NavCam – 21 September
Rosetta's navigation camera (NAVCAM) took this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September, from a distance…
Attica peninsula, Greece
Greece’s Attica peninsula, with the capital and largest city of Athens appearing bright white near the…
Comet on 21 September – NavCam
Single frame (and cropped) NAVCAM image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 21 September 2014. Read more about…
Comet on 24 September – NavCam
Four-image NAVCAM mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using images taken on 24 September 2014 when Rosetta was…
Spacewalk training
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Expedition 42/43 flight engineer, dons a training version of her Extravehicular Mobility…