Winter training at the Russian Space Center
Russian Cosmonauts and NASA astronauts take part in a three-day winter training in a forest at Russian Space Training Center in Star City, outside Moscow, Russia.
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Russian Cosmonauts and NASA astronauts take part in a three-day winter training in a forest at Russian Space Training Center in Star City, outside Moscow, Russia.
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On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 crew members Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a flash fire while rehearsing the launch.
After keeping the command module locked up for 50 years, NASA put the burned capsule on public display at the Kennedy Space Center as a tribute to the astronauts.
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NASA and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory this week released “Visions of the Future” posters, which its website called “images of imaginative travel destinations.” All photos are courtesy of NASA.
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The day in photos from around the world.
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Tuesday, mankind visits its first unexplored world since 1989 – and its last for a long time, if not ever.
The NASA spacecraft was scheduled to be 7,750 miles from the dwarf planet’s surface at precisely 7:49:59 a.m., the pinnacle of a 9 1/2-year, 3 billion-mile journey for the spacecraft designed, built and managed by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel.
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NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
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The day in photos from around the world.
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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who was born and raised in the Baltimore area, recently completed a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). From May to November 2014, he literally had a window on the world as the space station circled in low orbit around Earth.
Now Wiseman is back visiting several locations in the region, including the Maryland Science Center, where he is displaying some of his amazing videos and pictures that he took during his stay on board the ISS.
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The Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft explodes after launch at Wallops Island, VA at 6:22 p.m. ET. It was set to carry some 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.