NASA


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


NASA Tips Their Hat To Cosmos With A Gorgeous Space Gallery

While Cosmos may not have lived up to Fox’s ratings expectations, it was still a humbling primer on our vast, …

10 years ago

SpaceX To Launch Missions for the U.S. Military

SpaceX seems to be taking the world—make that the universe—by storm. The private contractor hauls cargo to the ISS, and …

10 years ago

nasa gravity

Gravity Gets Congratulations From ISS And Lookalike Imagery From NASA

This past Sunday saw the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences giving sciencey fiction its just rewards by granting …

10 years ago

2010

NASA Starts Planning Robotic Mission To Europa

One of my favorite films, Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me is partly a cautionary tale about what happens when curiosity …

10 years ago

nasa exoplanets

NASA Finds 715 New Exoplanets Beneath The Universe’s Couch Cushions

Much like an over-the-hill cinematic boxer, everyone had pretty much given up on the Kepler Telescope once its instruments started …

10 years ago

MythBusters’ Adam Savage Shows Off His Gorgeous Mercury Spacesuit Replica

Adam Savage’s life is just frankly unfair. It’s bad enough that he gets paid to blow things up, put Hollywood’s …

10 years ago

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PLATO

ESA’s Cosmic Vision Includes New Planet-Hunting Mission

NASA likes to boast about its planet-hunting capabilities thanks to both the Kepler and the Hubble telescopes. But NASA’s not …

10 years ago

Dying Stars Slosh Around When They Go Supernova

As Carl Sagan always said, “We’re made of star-stuff.” That’s because dying stars explode, expelling stardust — which scientists now …

10 years ago

ISS Cold Atom Lab Will Be The Most Frigid Place In The Universe

The ISS has its share of haters. There are many people who believe the station is a colossal waste of …

10 years ago

mystery rock site

Opportunity Rover Solves Rock Mystery

A few weeks ago, the Opportunity Rover’s cameras picked up a mystery rock on Mars. The rock, which was compared …

10 years ago

water on Mars

There Might Be Water Flowing On Mars Right Now

Earlier in the Curiosity Rover‘s travels around the Red Planet it gleaned a bunch of information about the water-soaked soil, …

10 years ago

NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate

NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …

10 years ago

Meet Dream Chaser, America’s Next Space Shuttle

As you probably know, President Obama announced his decision to end NASA’s space shuttle program Constellation back in 2010. Since …

10 years ago

Why You Have NASA To Thank For The Super Bowl

In a few hours, an absurd number of people will watch the spectacle that is the Super Bowl. And they’ll …

10 years ago

Opportunity Rover

Happy Tenth Anniversary, Opportunity

Ten years might not seem old, but for a rover that was only meant to conduct a three-month-long mission, a …

10 years ago

Mars rock

Mystery Rock Appears On Mars

Meteorite? Rover antics? Elvis? All of these theories are on the table when it comes to the mysterious rock that …

10 years ago

New Horizons

NASA’s Only A Year Away From Pluto

Pluto may not be a full-fledged planet anymore, but that doesn’t mean we’re not interested in checking it out, even …

10 years ago

ISS

ISS Gets A Four-Year Extension

I’m not sure if you knew that the International Space Station had a pre-planned death date. Maybe that’s being melodramatic. …

10 years ago

apollo 13

Apollo 13 Disaster Unfolds In Real Time In These Archival Videos

There’s a very good chance you’re familiar with the nearly tragic events surrounding NASA’s famed Apollo 13 mission, and a …

10 years ago

ganymede

Russia Plans To Send Probe To Ganymede

Jupiter is set to give Mars and Saturn a run for their money when it comes to being the most …

10 years ago

NASA JACO

NASA Scientists Control Robotic Arm With Kinect And Oculus Rift

Robots in space — two great tastes that taste great together. They might go to Mars ahead of the humans …

10 years ago

The Day the Earth Smiled

Cassini Offers A New Glimpse Of The Pale Blue Dot

Given my fascination with the universe, my love for Carl Sagan, and my hopes that the reboot of Cosmos will …

10 years ago

DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists

DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …

10 years ago

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Merry Christmas! Astronauts Conduct Emergency Repairs On ISS Cooling System

Unless his flying reindeer are truly amazing, like Falcor, Santa probably doesn’t make it to space. Or maybe he does, …

10 years ago

NEOWISE image

Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft NEOWISE Is Back In Business

Forget diamonds — asteroids are the hottest rocks out there. And unlike most objects, celestial or otherwise, asteroids have a …

10 years ago

Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot

We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …

10 years ago

ILIAD

Want To Help Scientists Discover New Antibiotics?

NASA has proven adept at crowdsourcing — it leverages the exuberance and talents of students to build nanosatellites or to …

10 years ago

bullet time

Ex-NASA Engineer Creates Matrix-Style Bullet-Time Effect

If you’ve ever seen the Matrix (and honestly, who among you hasn’t?), you’ve likely marveled at the special effects, particularly …

10 years ago

Hexagon Saturn

Saturn’s Hexagonal Hurricane In The Spotlight In New Cassini Footage

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. The photos it provides us of Saturn, the most picturesque …

10 years ago