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NASA Releases More Than 8,400 Apollo Moon Mission Photos on Flickr

Mon Oct 5, 2015 06:47 pm Cardinal News

NASA released more than 8,400 Apollo moon mission photos after re-scanning negatives of high-resolution shots by Apollo astronauts using Hasselblad medium format cameras. The “Project Apollo Archive” has just uploaded more than 8,400 astonishing, high-resolution […]

Dwarf Planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt Has Mysterious Bright Spots, Pyramid

Sat Aug 8, 2015 11:25 pm Cardinal News

NASA released a new flyover animation showing the mysterious surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The diameter […]

Pluto Photos Taken by the New Horizons Spacecraft During the First Mission to the Kuiper Belt

Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:27 pm Cardinal News

Using photos taken from the New Horizons spacecraft, NASA has created a virtual “flyby” of Pluto’s surface. NASA on Tuesday morning released one of the first images of Pluto as its New Horizons spacecraft makes […]

SpaceX Unmanned Rocket Explodes Shortly After Takeoff from Complex 40 Cape Canaveral, Florida

Sun Jun 28, 2015 09:40 am Cardinal News

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the American aerospace manufacturer and space transport service […]

NASA Official Flight Video: “Orion Soars on First Flight Test” Launched at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Sat Dec 6, 2014 05:08 pm Cardinal News

NASA official Orion spacecraft launch with video of upper stage in orbit up to 142 miles above the earth’s surface. NASA’s Orion spacecraft launched successfully atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Dec. […]

VIDEO: Orion Spacecraft Successfully Launches from Launch Pad 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Fri Dec 5, 2014 08:51 am Cardinal News

VIDEO: Beautiful liftoff of NASA’s Orion spacecraft with an an uncrewed test flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida. NASA successfully launched its Orion Spacecraft without a crew as planned. The spacecraft launched atop a Delta […]

Launch America: NASA Chooses American Companies to Transport US Astronauts to International Space Station

Wed Sep 17, 2014 03:11 pm Cardinal News

CNN’s Rachel Crane explains NASA’s commercial crew contract competition and what it means for the future of space travel. U.S. astronauts once again will travel to and from the International Space Station from the United […]

NASA Orders Urgent Spacewalk Repairs Could be Underway Saturday through Christmas to Fix Broken Cooling Line

Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:23 pm Cardinal News

NASA Orders Urgent Spacewalk Repairs. NASA has ordered up a series of urgent spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line at the International Space Station, a massive repair job that could stretch to Christmas Day. […]

Happy New Year! Video Earth City Lights Via Rotating Earth

Tue Jan 1, 2013 12:17 am Cardinal News

Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite for nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC. Scientists unveiled on December […]

SpaceX Launches Dragon Capsule Toward International Space Station– First in Series of Supply Runs by Private Company

Mon Oct 8, 2012 07:41 am Cardinal News

A commercial cargo ship rocketed into orbit Sunday from Cape Canaveral in pursuit of the International Space Station, the first of a dozen supply runs under a mega-contract with NASA. It was the second launch […]

Dear President Barack Obama Staff: How About Respecting Neil Armstrong without Picture of POTUS, and with Authentic Space-Related Photo?

Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:38 pm Cardinal News

NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong died Saturday, August 25, 2012. He was the first human being to walk on the surface of the Moon. His first spaceflight was the NASA Gemini 8 mission in 1966, but […]

Solar Flare Video and Photos: Giant Prominence Captured By NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

Wed Apr 18, 2012 09:34 am Cardinal News

VIDEO: Coronal mass ejection captured on April 16, 2012 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. A beautiful prominence eruption producing a coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on […]

NASA’s Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Possible Earth-Like Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

Mon Dec 5, 2011 04:30 pm Cardinal News

Artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region […]

VIDEO: Launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover

Sun Nov 27, 2011 01:22 pm Cardinal News

The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer is on its way to Mars. NASA on Saturday launched the six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover, nicknamed Curiosity. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity was launched November 26, 2011 at 10:02 […]

How Close to Earth Was Asteroid 2005 YU55?

Tue Nov 8, 2011 09:42 pm Cardinal News

On November 8, 2011 at 23:28 UT (5:28 p.m. CST) the asteroid safely passed 0.85 lunar distances (324,600 km or 201,700 miles) from the Earth. November 9, 2011 at 07:13 UT (1:13 a.m. CST) the […]

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