NASA Space Center Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michael Duncan discusses the assistance the space center will bring to the trapped Chilean miners catastrophe during the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
Alfred McEwen, the scientist responsible for the HiRISE camera, remembers the successful landing of NASA's Phoenix spacecraft photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on May 25, 2008 and discusses some of the images they received from the MRO. Continue reading
Yuri Gargarin, the first person in space, cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, and others discuss the day he was sent into orbit. Continue reading
Alan Shepard, the first American to go to outer-space, talks about the space race with Gagarin with Shepard during the Cold War. Continue reading
Dr. Joe Liske and ESA (European Space Agency) discusses the amazing data that the Hubble Space Telescope has given science and researchers. Continue reading
Dr. Ed Weiler, considered by many as the face of the Hubble Space Telescope, discusses the Hubble’s history and the ups and down of his scientific achievement. Continue reading
Author: Ben Nussbaum It was a cold morning at Cape Canaveral on January 28, 1986. Crews had worked the night before clearing ice from the launch tower that held the Challenger Space Shuttle. Inside the Shuttle, five men and two women waited to lift off. They would spend six days … Continue reading
Former astronauts discuss what it what like working with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Continue reading
NASA Astronaut James 'Jim' Lovell was the Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot. Lovell discusses the importance of going to the moon in 1968 and remembers what it was like to be in orbit on Christmas Eve. Continue reading
CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield experiments with surface tension in space using a wet washcloth. Continue reading
