First Chinese Woman Astronaut returns today.

China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft  returned to Earth with its three crew members following a 13-day mission today including China’s first female Astronaut Liu Yang, State television showed images of the capsule…

New NASA Game Lets Players Build and Launch a Virtual Rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With NASA’s Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to launch a spacecraft….

Thruster Tests Complete for NASA Partner Boeing’s Crew Capsule

CANOGA PARK, Calif. — Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne has successfully completed a series of tests on a thruster destined for Boeing’s Commercial Space Transportation spacecraft, designated CST-100. Boeing is one…

Design your own satellite with this free program!

NASA – If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to build a satellite to peer into a black hole and uncover its secrets, now you can find out…

How will Mars Curiosity land – Video

Click to see video of how Mars Curiosity will decend. The new Mars rover has a complex and challenging sequence of events that must happen properly in the 7 minutes…

Voyager 1 nearing exit of the solar systems helosphere

NASA – For nearly 35 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling toward the edge of the solar system, flying through the dark void on a mission unlike anything…

Asteroid That Flew By Is Larger Then We Thought.

The Asteroid we talked about last week, 2012 LZ1, came within 3.3 million miles of the earth on June 14. The flyby did allow astronomers to train the planetary radar system at the Arecibo Observatory on…

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NuSTAR Black Hole Space Telescope Unfolds 33-Foot Mast in Orbit

The NuSTAR black hole telescope unfolded its giant mast in orbit on Thursday, June 21. This is one of the final steps before it begins to look into deep space….