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Goddard Space Flight Center Virtual Tour
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of the few space organizations that can manage a mission from beginning to end: imagine it, build it, test it, launch it and reap the scientific benefits. Come take a...
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The Geocenter of the Earth Is Changing (And Why That Matters)
At the foundation of virtually all airborne, space-based and ground-based Earth observations is the TRF, or Terrestrial Reference Frame. The TRF relies on an accurate calculation of the geocenter of the Earth (the center mass of the...
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NASA’s Near Space Network: Overview
NASA’s Near Space Network fulfills the essential needs of user missions, empowering them with mission-critical communications and navigation services and enabling the transmission of science and exploration data to and from space. As a...
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NASA | We Did All That in 50 Years!
Humans have always looked up at the sky. They used astronomy to track time, orient their cities, decide when to plant their crops, and even based their religious practices on their celestial world. But there was much more to learn.
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Exploring Our Solar System with Dr. Amy Simon
Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and she eventually found...
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NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
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NASA’s plans for Gateway space station
NASA has released images of its Lunar Gateway space station ahead of its proposed launch of two modules in 2024.
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NASA | Goddard's Innovation
For more than half a century, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been at the forefront of discovery, creating new instruments and managing high-profile missions that have expanded our understanding of the world around us. Perhaps...
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NASA | MAVEN MOI Live Shot with Jim Garvin
Jim Garvin gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 4/6)
Part 4 of Dr. Garvin's talk includes a hypothetical trip to a near-Earth object, a look at NASA's explorations of our own place in the solar system, planet Earth, and an introduction to what makes Mars such a fascinating place to study....
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Gravity Assist: Goodbye Saturn, Hello Earth, with Janelle Wellons
Janelle Wellons likes to say that she operates “fancy space cameras.” At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she creates commands that allow spacecraft to take valuable scientific data in our solar system and here at planet Earth.
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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NASA Earth Expeditions: An Animated Tour
NASA takes you on a world tour with this animation as we kick off major new field campaigns to study regions of critical change from land, sea and air. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu
OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx launched in...
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Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing
Scientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called "ring rain." Learn more about this...
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NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) Overview
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will fly as a hosted payload aboard a Department of Defense spacecraft as part of the Space Test Program (STP-3) mission. LCRD will continue NASA's exploration of laser communications...
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China to break launch record and finish its space station in 2022
Last year, Beijing sent 55 missions into space, compared to America’s 43 missions, which consisted mostly of SpaceX launches.
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Atlas of the United States: Nevada
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
The March of Time
1943: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CAMPAIGN: KISKA BOMBING: VS Flying over Kiska island, United States Army Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomb bay doors opening, pilots aiming, artillery bombs dropping away, clouds. WWII, World War II, Pacific Front, Alaska
MOT 1943: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS CAMPAIGN: KISKA BOMBING: VS Flying over Kiska island, United States Army Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomb bay doors opening, pilots aiming, artillery bombs dropping away, clouds. WWII, World War II, Pacific...
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NASA's 5 Newest Earth Expeditions Ready for Takeoff
NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies off the coast of...
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NASA | TDRS: Communicating Critical Data
As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation fulfills NASA's broadest communication demands. Now into it's fourth operational decade, the TDRS legacy continues to be...
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Two New Satellites Set to Study One of Earth's Most Critically Changing Regions
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns. GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use radically...
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard - (short cut)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...