NASA


NASA
  • Formed: July 29, 1958
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center
  • Related: Space Force
  • Status: Active


What’s Better Than Nachos? Nachos In Space.

In my opinion, you can improve pretty much any concept by adding “in space” to the end of it. Birthdays…in …

11 years ago

Leonard Nimoy Is Our Guide In This Short Film About NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Mission

We here at GFR are automatically predisposed to be fascinated by any new foray into space exploration…that’s kind of our …

11 years ago

NASA Astronaut Takes You On A Guided Tour Of The ISS

I want to go to there.

11 years ago

Deep Space Travel May Hasten Alzheimer’s Disease

With as much as there is to do on this planet, one might think it would be enough to satisfy …

11 years ago

Listen To What The International Space Station Sounds Like

Sometimes when I make a point to notice how quiet it is around me, I’ll find that it isn’t quiet …

11 years ago

NASA’s New Mars Rovers Look Like Medieval Weapons

NASA goes medieval! Over the past few years, NASA has made their rovers to look friendly and acceptable to human …

11 years ago

Walt Disney Among Nine Artists Immortalized In Craters Named for Them

For the past ninety years, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has been naming all of the celestial bodies found in …

11 years ago

NASA’s New Spacesuit Prototype Will Take You To Infinity And Beyond

There’s been an ongoing back-and-forth conversation between real-life science and science fiction for decades. Star Trek gave us communicators, and …

11 years ago

NASA Releases Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday Video

It was a good run while it lasted. According to some conspiracy theorists, the world will come to an end …

11 years ago

Mysterious Gullies On Asteroid Vesta May Have Been Formed By Fluids

When I was a kid, a gully was something behind someone’s house that filled up with water when it rained, …

11 years ago

Gorgeous New HD Earth at Night Images Brighten Up Your Life

The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” is sometimes applicable, while other times, a broad overstatement. A sailboat …

11 years ago

NASA Stalwart Rover Opportunity Has Completed Matijevic Hill Observations

I can’t tell you how many things I’ve owned that didn’t last nine years without malfunctioning in at least one …

11 years ago

James Cameron, Mars, And Climate Change Form The Bulk Of AGU’s 2012 Conference

Pop culture fanatics have Comic-Con and SXSW. Geo-scientists have the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The conference, …

11 years ago

NASA’s MESSENGER Probe Discovers Ice On Mercury’s Poles

For most of us amateur science followers, Mercury is probably the very last place we would think to look for …

11 years ago

NASA Teases Major Mars Announcement

One of the main mission goals of NASA’s Curiosity rover is to search for evidence of life on Mars — …

11 years ago

Re-Enter The Dragon: SpaceX’s Craft Returns From ISS Supply Run

When you have more money than some small governments, you can make amazing things happen. Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has …

11 years ago

Space Shuttle Endeavor’s Beautiful Time-Lapsed Final Voyage

And you think traffic is bad where you live. Consider having to drive behind the retired Space Shuttle Endeavor as …

11 years ago

Stunning Retro Drawings Of The Space Shuttles

The Space Shuttle Endeavour completed its final journey last week, one that didn’t include breaking the bonds of Earth’s gravity …

12 years ago

NASA Unveils New Plan To Send Astronauts Beyond The Moon, But Will The White House Bite?

When NASA lays out a plan for human spaceflight, it usually revolves around a presidential mandate that outlines the course …

12 years ago

Curiosity Captures A Martian Solar Eclipse

In the latest “Holy crap, look at this awesome picture Curiosity took” news, the rover has managed to capture a …

12 years ago

Mars Rover Finds Mysterious Spheres, Confounds Scientists

With all the press surrounding Curiosity, you may have forgotten that we already have a working rover on the surface …

12 years ago

NASA’s Space Launch System: One Year Later

One year ago today, hot on the heels of retiring the space shuttle program, NASA announced its next step in …

12 years ago

Be The First To See Unreleased Pics Of Vesta While You Help NASA Map Its Surface

Even though NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has already departed Vesta and is on its way to its next target, there is …

12 years ago

Today Is The 50th Anniversary Of JFK’s Moon Speech

Fifty years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy stood behind a podium at Rice University and dared us to put …

12 years ago

Funny NASA Mission Posters

I imagine being an astronaut is a high-stress occupation. Despite being quite literally a dream job for many at NASA, …

12 years ago

Curiosity’s Tracks As Viewed From Space

One of the coolest aspects about the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars has to be its close cooperation with one …

12 years ago

NASA Gives $100,000 To Develop Radical Supersonic Jet Design

You’ve got to appreciate NASA’s willingness to try something new when it comes to aerospace design. Sure, they might have …

12 years ago