The sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. The first is Earth-directed. A second non-Earth-directed CME was released…
NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, enclosed in its payload fairing, passes through the Launch Complex 39 area at…
Enclosed in its payload fairing, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, passes through the Launch Complex 39 area at…
The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. These layers protect our planet by absorbing…
The Heliosphere is the outer atmosphere of the Sun and marks the edge of the Sun’s magnetic influence in space.
The inner magnetosphere is composed of three populations of charged particles that are trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field.
The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
On Jan. 27, 1967, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee (left-to-right) were preparing…
JSC2013-E-007020 (18 Jan. 2013) — Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata (left), Expedition 38 flight engineer and Expedition…
The gas generator from an F-1 engine is test-fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Jan.…