space

Tour of the International Space Station

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18

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The Overview Effect

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space

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Felix Baumgartner’s Supersonic Freefall

After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space

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Seven Minutes of Terror

Team members share the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.

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Another Earth in Outer Space?

Astronomers using NASA’s space-based Kepler Telescope may be close to finding the first Earth-like planets in outer space

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Jumping from the Edge of Space

In August 16th 1960, military pilot Colonel Joseph W Kittinger took a giant 200ft diameter helium balloon to the edge of space in a NASA mission known as Excelsior III.

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What Is a Leap Year?

Why do some years have an extra leap day and what is it for?

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Most Important Image Ever Taken

A photo of utter blackness taken in “a patch of sky no bigger than a grain of sand held out out arm’s length.”

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EARTH: The Pale Blue Dot

Readings from Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”

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