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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 2
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescopes science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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NASA | Tracking Space Weather for New Horizons
A few months before New Horizons was due to reach Pluto, a community of scientists came together to determine just what kind of a environment the mission would experience during its historic flyby. While the simulations aren't 100%...
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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 | Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Trailer
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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NASA | LRO/LCROSS Launch Prep Behind the Scenes with Jim Garvin
Jim Garvin, NASA Goddard's Chief Scientist, gives his take on the LRO/LCROSS launch, NASAs first venture back to the moon in a decade. Be prepared for excitement and adventure!
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Earthrise in 4K
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important...
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NASA | MMS Engineering Challenges
It's hard enough to build one spacecraft, but the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is building four. Together, the spacecraft will unlock the mysteries of magnetic reconnection, when magnetic fields explosively connect and...
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NASA | Little SDO: Looking Inside the Sun
Little SDO explains both how he can see inside the sun and how he can tell what you ate for lunch today.
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NASA | Landsat Looks to the Moon
Every full moon, Landsat 8 turns its back on Earth. As the satellite's orbit takes it to the nighttime side of the planet, Landsat 8 pivots to point at the moon. It scans the distant lunar surface multiple times, then flips back around...
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NASA | How Will the 4 MMS Spacecraft Launch and Deploy?
In March of 2015, an unprecedented NASA mission will launch to study a process so mysterious that no one has ever directly measured it in action. To create the first-ever 3-dimensional maps of this process, a process called magnetic...
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NASA | HD STS-125 Launch for Hubble SM4
Atlantis and the STS-125 crew lifted off on a mission on May 11, to upgrade the world's most famous telescope. Goddard plays a major role in the Hubble servicing mission. Astronauts trained with sophisticated Hubble models in Goddard...
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NASA | HD LRO and LCROSS Atlas 5 Launch
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous...
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TDRS Continuing the Fleet
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS, project is building the follow-on and replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s Space Network. The third satellite of the third generation, TDRS-M, is set to launch in...
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 7
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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NASA | Targeting Mars
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft...
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NASA | Siding Spring live shot with Michelle Thaller
Michelle Thaller talks about the close encounter between Mars and Comet Siding Spring at the Oct 17, 2014 liveshot. This is a canned interview.
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NASA | RROxiTT: Another Step Toward Servicing Satellites in Space
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Kennedy Space Center in Florida are joining teams and efforts to test new robotic refueling technologies that could help satellites live longer in space. During the test, a robotic arm...
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NASA | OSIRIS-REx Targets NEO
Near-Earth Objects, or NEO's, cross our planet's orbit on a regular basis, but only a handful are large enough to pose a threat. One of these objects is asteroid 1999 RQ36, a "leftover" from the formation of our solar system...
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NASA | Observing the 2015 Christmastime Full Moon
This year is a rare Christmastime full moon. When you look up at the moon, remember that NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting our moon since its launch in 2009. It's sending back high-resolution images of the moon's...
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NASA | NOAA's GOES-O Ready To Launch
This video shows a quick tour and overview of the facilities where the GOES-O satellite was built and tested prior to launch. GOES-O was integrated by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, CA and then transported to the...
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NASA | LOLA: Defining the Lunar Terrain
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument on board NASA's LRO spacecraft will be responsible for building the highest detail topography available of the lunar terrain. In this video David Smith, LOLA's Principal Investigator,...
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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 | A Tour of the LRO Instrument Suite
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Scientist Rich Vondrak explains the LRO suite of instruments and how each will greatly benefit our understanding of the Moon. Learn more about LRO at:Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | LRO Scouts for Safe Landing Sites
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is NASA's scouting mission to prepare for a return to the moon. One of its primary objectives will be to assess the lunar terrain for areas that would provide safe landing sites for future missions,...