Tag: NASA
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Nerd Nite meets NASA, sparking memories for an astronaut with deep Northwest roots
NASA astronaut Anne McClain takes the stage at Nerd Nite Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Chelsey Ballarte) The High Dive is known for drawing crowds into the local music scene, but this week, music wasn’t what drew nearly 200 people to the venue – it was NASA. Nerd Nite Seattle is a monthly gathering at the…
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NASA spacewalkers triumph over fussy bolt to finish quick space station repair job
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer waves to the camera during a repair spacewalk. (NASA TV) NASA spacewalkers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer replaced a faulty computer relay box on the International Space Station today, but not before dealing with a problem all too familiar to home fixer-uppers. The box, about the size of a microwave oven,…
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President Trump’s budget plan gets a bad review from the science community
President Donald Trump is calling for significant cuts in science spending. (Flickr / Gage Skidmore) President Donald Trump sent his budget request for the next fiscal year to Congress today, giving the science community a glimpse of what may be to come – and many don’t like what they see. The budget proposal cuts funding for most research…
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NASA decides against putting crew on first SLS rocket launch, now delayed to 2019
An artist’s view shows NASA’s Space Launch System launching an Orion capsule. (NASA Illustration) NASA has broken the news to the White House and the world that speeding up the first crewed flight of its exploration launch system wouldn’t be worth the added cost and risk. That means the first launch of NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch…
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Google film ‘Dot of Light’ features pioneering female astronauts and dramatic views from space
Three female pioneers of space exploration are the subjects of a new short film from Google. And the experiences the women had and how they describe it all has led the tech giant to offer new Google Artworks Live Case designs for Pixel and Nexus smartphones. The 10-minute film, called “Dot of Light,” mixes historic footage…
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Cassini orbiter survives first dive inside Saturn’s rings: 21 to go, and then the end
This unprocessed image of Saturn’s atmosphere was captured by the Cassini probe during its dive inside the planet’s rings. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Image) NASA’s Cassini orbiter zoomed inside Saturn’s rings overnight for the first time in its 20-year-long flight – and lived to tell about it. Signals received by the Deep Space Network’s…
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In video call to space station, President Donald Trump calls for speeding up trips to Mars
President Donald Trump chats with astronauts on the International Space Station from his desk in the White House’s Oval Office, flanked by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on the left and Ivanka Trump on the right. (White House via YouTube) Humans on Mars by 2024? President Donald Trump set that time frame today, almost certainly in…
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U.S.-Russian duo joins space station crew, six hours after launch from Kazakhstan
Today there are 67 percent more people working in space than there were the day before, now that NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin have arrived at the International Space Station. The two spacefliers were launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early today and took a six-hour ride aboard a Russian…
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NASA puts $50M into creating fusion thrusters, space robots and more
An artist’s conception shows a fusion-driven rocket powering a probe toward Mars. (MSNW / University of Washington Illustration) Fusion-driven rockets, remote control systems for space robots, and satellites that build themselves up in orbit are among the made-in-Washington projects getting a share of $49.9 million in NASA grants. Seven businesses in Washington state will benefit…
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Liftoff sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station, but 360-degree video falls short
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket flashes to life on its Cape Canaveral launch pad, sending Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo capsule on the first leg of its journey to the International Space Station. (NASA TV) Today’s launch of a robotic Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station was totally successful. But the first-ever live…