Google Hangout Hosts ISS and Star Trek Into Darkness Crews

(Source NASA) –  Science fiction meets science fact this week as members if the ISS team meet the cast of Star Trek. The director, a writer and some actors in…

How to get a job at NASA – Series Part 2 – The Resume

Having hired literally hundreds of people for both technical and non technical positions I will offer here what I look for in a resume. For the most part I hire…

New Rover Deployed by NASA to a new planet….EARTH!

NASA Rover Prototype Set To Explore Greenland Ice Sheet (Source NASA) – NASA’s newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of…

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FERMI captures record setting Gamma Ray Burst

  (Source NASA) – A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as…

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Photos of Earth from Smartphones in Orbit

PhoneSats take images of Earth Launched aboard an  Antares rocket on April 21, 2013 these pictures were taken by three PhoneSats , or nano-satellites comprised mainly of off the shelf smart phones….

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How to get a job at NASA – Series Part 1 – Motivation

Can I work at NASA? One of the questions that get asked a lot via email here at KnowledgeOrb is “How can I get a job at NASA?” I decided…

NASA Meatball

NASA 1961 goal Man on Moon in decade, 2013 goal Man in Orbit in four years

NASA just signed a deal with Russian for almost one half billion dollars to launch astronauts to the space station, 424 million to be exact. This deal will assure we…

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Great view of CME as it Erupts from edge of Sun May 1, 2013

  On May 1, 2013 SDO captured this video of a coronal mass ejection (CME) as it erupted from the edge of the Sun. The actual time of the video…