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NASA | Explore@Goddard Day 2011
On Saturday, May 14, NASA Goddard invited the community for a day full of family fun, music, food, and science.
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NASA | Webb Space Telescope Integrated Science Instrument Module Begins Final Cryogenic Test
Engineers place the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope into the Space Environment Simulator, a giant thermal vacuum and cryogenic testing chamber, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. You can find out more...
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NASA | Vision. Hope. Triumph
During the STS-125 pre-launch press conference Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its...
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Webb's Heart Endures its Last Cryogenic Test Before Installation Into the Telescope
Engineers lift the James Webb Space Telescopes cameras and spectrographs out of the Space Environment Simulator at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These vital parts of the Webb Space Telescope endured their last...
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Avengers Campus and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge! | Disneyland and California Adventure | Maddie Moate
Greg and I were visiting LA for work last Christmas but we couldn't resist a quick day in the Disney parks! I hope you enjoy exploring Disney's California Adventure and Disneyland as much as we did! Let me know in the comments what your...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-P Readied For Launch
GOES-P, set to launch in March of 2010, is the last in the N-O-P series of weather satellites and will continue providing critical data for predicting Earth and space weather. This video takes you on a tour of some of the critical...
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NASA | Hubble Memorable Moments: Powering Down
In this first video of NASA's Hubble Memorable Moments series celebrating Hubble's 25 years, the telescope must be completely powered off to replace Hubble's heart. In 1999, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discovered that...
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NASA | Earth Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 Years Old
On March 1, the Earth-observing Landsat 5 satellite celebrated 25 years in orbit. Twenty-two years beyond its primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 is still going strong, making it a keystone of the 37-year Landsat Program. Among Landsat...
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Goddard Team Reflects on 20 Years of Cassini
The people behind Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) reflect on their years-long experience working with their team - relationships formed, children born, challenges conquered, and their feelings as the Cassini mission...
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Introducing NASA Explorers: Apollo, an Audio Series
Coming soon, NASA Explorers: Apollo is an audio series that tells stories of the Moon and the people who explore it. During the Apollo program, the Moon became a part of the human domain. Twelve astronauts walked on the lunar surface,...
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Conversations with Goddard: Jody Davis
Jody Davis, deputy payload systems engineer for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), inspires and uplifts the world. Davis supports the design, development, build and test of the WFIRST payload including collaborating with...
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Environmental Engineer - Tamar Losleben
Tamar Losleben is an environmental engineer passionate about balancing urban grown with environmental protection and preservation. She works on a number of projects where she has the opportunity to work in the office and outdoors in the...
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NASA's Hubble Memorable Moments: Comet Impact
In July 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope was poised to use its newly fixed optics to observe one of the most impressive astronomical events of the century - the 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. But these...
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NASA | SDO: Commissioning and Handover
In order to provide the clearest scientific data for its entire 5 year mission, SDO had to undergo a rigorous, 2 month testing phase. After giving it an all-clear, the team of people who designed, built and tested the satellite now have...
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NASA | Hubble Memorable Moments: Brute Force
In this second video of NASA's Hubble Memorable Moments series celebrating Hubble's 25 years, the team scrambles to work out an unusual solution to a problem encountered during an instrument repair. The Space Telescope Imaging...
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NASA’s Webb Is Sound After Completing Critical Milestones
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical testing milestones on its march to the launch pad. In recent acoustic and sine vibration tests, technicians and engineers exposed Webb’s spacecraft...
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NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
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5 Things: Space Servicing
Just as cars need maintenance on Earth, sometimes spacecraft need fixing, too. 🛠️ When astronauts work on spacecraft in orbit, it's called space servicing. Want to know more about space servicing? Leave your questions in the comments...
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Lucy’s Journey: Episode 1 – 'Launch'
Episode 1: Launch. Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter. Music is "Fizzy and Witty" by Fabien Langard and Philippe Villar and...
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Planning for a Spacecraft Launch: Lucy Goes to Space
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This third episode features Project Manager Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, who discusses the preparation involved in getting the Lucy...
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NASA | SDO Engineers Create What Never Was
Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center talk about what it is like to build, assemble, integrate, and test a custom-made spacecraft like the soon to be launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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NASA | Goddard Space Flight Center (1976)
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Goddard Space Flight Center has seen a lot of changes over its first five decades. Yet despite the time that has passed, the core values and mission of the center has changed little. This vintage...
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NASA | Goddard Interns 2013
Every year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. recruits hundreds of interns to spend the summer working on revolutionary missions featuring state-of-the-art technology. This orientation video introduces interns to NASA...
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NASA | Building the Nation's Newest Weather Satellite
Say you need a new weather satellite. Is it as simple as selecting options and clicking to order? Not quite. Building a vital national asset like the GOES-R spacecraft takes teams of meteorologists and engineers working together to...