Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.
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Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to practice … Read the rest “Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer”
More Chinese astronauts for China’s space station.
Reuters reports that a couple of days ago, the Shenzhou-16, or “Divine Vessel-16,” a spaceship mounted on a Long March-2F rocket, sent a new crew of three astronauts to the … Read the rest “More Chinese astronauts for China’s space station.”
Voyager 2 gets a slight reprieve – until 2026, at least.
NPR reports on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory finding a way to keep the plucky space probe going in the outer limits of the solar system for another few years by tapping some reserve… Read the rest “Voyager 2 gets a slight reprieve – until 2026, at least.”
Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.
PhysOrg reports on NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed home for researchers ready to spend a year simulating a mission on Mars:
… Read the rest “Here’s a Mars habitat, ready for a year’s occupancy.”The facility, created for three planned experiments
Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida.
As described in NASA’s image… Read the rest “Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023”
Martian soil is nice for rice.
Science News reports on a presentation at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by researcher Abhilash Ramachandran, who found that rice – one of our planet’s… Read the rest “Martian soil is nice for rice.”
Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. The shuttle had been docked … Read the rest “Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.”
NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.
Ars Technica reports on a long-awaited milestone. After many not-quite-that-long missions, a NASA astronaut is on the way to finally spend more than a full year living in space:
… Read the rest “NASA astronaut finally ready to spend more than a year in space.”When Mark
Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly to be made of metal. But inside…… Read the rest “Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011”
Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022
This is a NASA-released image of a very important piece of space technology. That small, color-corrected orange thing is a tiny plush Snoopy doll used to measure relative weightlessness… Read the rest “Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022”
Science Art: Space Colony Interior by Rick Guidice, c. 1975.
This is part of a presentation created by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill – one of three “summer studies” he carried out in the 1970s on potential space colony designs… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Colony Interior by Rick Guidice, c. 1975.”
Science Art: Lunar Lander, Surveyor
This is one of the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. We sent machines there before we sent people.
From the Smithsonian Open Access Collection description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Lunar Lander, Surveyor”The Surveyor series
NASA moved an asteroid.
NASA reports that the DART mission was a success. For the first time ever, human beings have changed the course of a celestial object:
… Read the rest “NASA moved an asteroid.”Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s
Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.
Here’s a picture of a distinctive bit of geography. There are hobbits down there, and members of Split Enz and The Chills, and some of Taika Waititi’s relatives too. Here’s… Read the rest “Science Art: New Zealand’s South Island, by Samantha Cristoforetti, 2022.”