by Emily Carney | Jul 17, 2016 | Russian space program, Space Science, This Space Available
NASA image: “Mariner 4 image, the first close-up image ever taken of Mars. This shows an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from limb to bottom of frame, centered at 37 N, 187 W. The area is near the boundary of Elysium Planitia to the west and Arcadia Planitia...
by Emily Carney | Jul 10, 2016 | Space Science, This Space Available
Viking 1 surveys the “Big Joe” rock at Chryse Planitia. NASA image. You should go there, it is so nice, Mars.You should be there, it’s out of sight, Mars.You should see it, it ain’t so high, Mars.You should be there, up in the sky, Mars.- Title...
by Emily Carney | Jul 3, 2016 | Space Science, This Space Available
From NASA: “Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. It was taken on July 20, 1976.” Image Credit: NASA “Time and time again I repeat, ‘It’s...
by Emily Carney | Jun 5, 2016 | Apollo, Astronauts, Skylab Space Station, Space Science, This Space Available
From NASA: “This photograph of the sun, taken on Dec. 19, 1973, during the third and final manned Skylab mission (Skylab 4), shows one of the most spectacular solar flares ever recorded, spanning more than 588,000 kilometers (365,000 miles) across the solar...
by Emily Carney | Mar 27, 2016 | Space Science, This Space Available
From NASA: “On August 20, 1975, Viking 1 was launched by a Titan/Centaur rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:22 p.m. EDT to begin a half-billion mile, 11-month journey through space to explore Mars. The 4-ton...
by Jim Plaxco | Nov 3, 2014 | Education, Event, Space Exploration, Space Science
NSS Enterprise in Space Orbiter Design Contest The NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise never made it to orbit. While that was the original intent, subsequent redesigns undertaken during the Enterprise testing phase made this impractical. Most tragically, another Enterprise...
by David Brandt-Erichsen | Dec 10, 2012 | Space, Space Science
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get...
by Emily Carney | Dec 6, 2012 | Astronauts, Commercial Space, Space Science, This Space Available
2012 was the year we conquered Mars again. JPL/NASA photo, taken from the Curiosity Rover. Despite the absence of the space shuttle, space in 2012 was far from uneventful. Here are some of the events and happenings that made this year a particularly memorable one...
