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The countdown is progressing smoothly today for the launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft on top. Weather remains 90 percent “go.” Liftoff is scheduled for 12:52 p.m. EDT from the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport's Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. There is a five minute window for launch. Live coverage of the launch on NASA TV will begin at noon at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv Cygnus is loaded with approximately 3,300 pounds of science investigations, food, supplies and hardware for the space station and its crew. Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani #orb2 #antares #cygnus #orbitalsciences #nasa #space #rocket #launch #rocketlaunch; -
A full moon is seen rising over Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket ready to carry #Orb2 to the #ISS at 12:52pm ET Sunday. The Antares is scheduled to launch with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The #Orb2 mission is Orbital Sciences' second contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani; -
Twas the night before launch... At a Launch Readiness Review Saturday, managers for Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, and NASA gave a “go” to proceed toward the Sunday, July 13, launch of the Orb-2 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Orbital is targeting a 12:52 p.m. EDT launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA Television coverage of the launch will begin at noon EDT online at http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv. There is a 90-percent chance of favorable weather at the time of launch. Seen here is the full Moon setting in the fog behind the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, Saturday, July 12, 2014, launch Pad-0A, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch Sunday, July 13 at 12:52 p.m. EDT with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital-2 mission is Orbital Sciences' second contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #Orb2 #nasa #space #iss #launch #rocketlaunch #rocket; -
The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen during sunrise, Saturday, July 12, 2014, at launch Pad-0A of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital-2 mission is Orbital Sciences' second contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #orb2 #nasa #space #virginia #launch #rocket #orbitalsciences #nasawallops #wallops #iss #rocketlaunch; -
Today marks 5,000 consecutive days of humans living & working aboard the International Space Station. That's almost 14 years going strong. The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 924,739 pounds. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional six-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window. The orbiting outpost has been a platform for hundreds of science experiments. This image shows the ISS in May 2010 from the undocking STS-132 Space Shuttle mission to the orbiting outpost. Image credit: NASA #iss #humansinspace #space #nasa #spacestation #internationalspacestation;
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"Morning sun casts long shadows. I bet the view is equally stunning looking up from below," tweeted astronaut Reid Wiseman today aboard the International Space Station. The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 924,739 pounds. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional six-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #iss #spacestation #exp40 #space #science #earth; -
Station Crew Gears Up for Cygnus Arrival: Expedition 40 crew finished out the week with physics research, maintenance work and preparations for the arrival of the next cargo vehicle now set to launch Sunday. A close-up view of a section of space station solar array panels is provided by this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #exp40 #iss #spacestation #space #science #cygnus #orb2 #antares; -
Galaxy With a Glowing Heart: This view, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1433. At about 32 million light-years from Earth, it is a type of very active galaxy known as a Seyfert galaxy — a classification that accounts for 10% of all galaxies. They have very bright, luminous centers that are comparable in brightness to that of our entire galaxy, the Milky Way. The centers of most galaxy cores, if not all, galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole, surrounded by a disk of in-falling material. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA #nasa #space #astronomy #hubble #hst #esa #galaxy #science; -
Getting Ready to Fly: The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, stands vertically at launch Pad-0A after successfully being raised into position for launch, Thursday, July 10, 2014, at our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital-2 mission is Orbital Sciences' second contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani #nasa #space #spacestation #iss #antares #cygnus #orb2; -
Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility to launch Pad-0A, today at our Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 3,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions. The Orbital-2 mission is Orbital Sciences' second contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for us. Launch to the International Space Station in now scheduled for 1:14 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 12. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls #nasa #space #spacestation #iss #antares #orbitalsciences #cygnus #orb2;
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A Spiral Bridge of Young Stars Linking Two Ancient Galaxies: Our Hubble Space Telescope photographed an unusual structure 100,000 light years long, which resembles a corkscrew-shaped string of pearls and winds around the cores of two colliding galaxies. The unique structure of the star spiral may yield new insights into the formation of stellar superclusters that result from merging galaxies and gas dynamics in this rarely seen process. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #astronomy #space #galaxies #hubble #hst #science; -
Typhoon Neoguri in Moonlight: The storm pounded Okinawa and other Western Pacific islands with torrential rain and damaging winds in mid-July 2014, en route to a likely landfall in Japan. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime image of the storm at 2:07 a.m. Japan Standard Time on July 9, 2014 (17:07 Universal Time on July 8). At the time, Neoguri was a category 2 typhoon moving through the East China Sea. The storm was imaged by a special “day-night band” that detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses light intensification to detect dim signals. The instrument can sense light as much as 100,000 times fainter than conventional visible-light sensors, making it very sensitive to moonlight and city lights. In this case, the cloud tops were lit by the nearly full Moon. Image Credit: NASA #nasa #space #satellite #weather #climate #nhc #typhoonneoguri #typhoon #neoguri; -
Prototype Robot With Smartphone to Test 3-D Mapping, Navigation Inside Space Station: Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus spacecraft will carry 3,293 pounds (1,493.8 kg) of cargo on its upcoming commercial resupply mission to the station, including crew supplies, nanosatellites, student research and this prototype free-flying space robot equipped with a smartphone, known as Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites). We've been testing SPHERES on the space station since 2011. This summer, astronauts will upgrade these existing space robots to use Google’s "Project Tango" smartphone, which features a custom 3-D sensor and multiple cameras. We will then use the Smart SPHERES to test free-flying 3-D mapping and navigation inside the space station. Image Credit: NASA/Ames #nasa #space #spacestation #iss #spheres #orbitalsciences #antares #smartphone; -
A moonrise viewed from the International Space Station, courteous NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who's living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory. Today, 55 days into the Expedition 40 mission aboard the space station, the crew supported a variety of science and technology investigations while preparing for the arrival of a number of visiting vehicles throughout the summer. Image Credit: NASA #iss #space #nasa #spacestation #exp40 #science #moon #earth; -
Saturn's Vortex and Rings The Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn's north polar vortex and hexagon along with its expansive rings. The hexagon, which is wider than two Earths, owes its appearance to the jet stream that forms its perimeter. The jet stream forms a six-lobed, stationary wave which wraps around the north polar regions at a latitude of roughly 77 degrees North. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 37 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on April 2, 2014 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 43 degrees. Image scale is 81 miles (131 kilometers) per pixel. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute #nasa #cassini #saturn #solarsystem #saturnrings #space;
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