Aug 03 Watch Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover ‘Curiosity’ Touchdown Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown… Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 24 Watch Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists… Continue watching
Jul 24 Watch Sally Ride in 1983: Chose Flowers Over Handshakes, Left at O Historic NewsHour video of Sally Ride's departure from NASA. Continue watching
Jun 06 Venus Transit as Revealed in Space By Jenny Marder For those Earthlings lucky enough to be under cloudless skies during Tuesday's Venus transit, it took the form of a pea-sized dot gliding across the Sun's northern hemisphere. For more perspective, NASA has collected a stunning sampling of images both… Continue reading
May 03 Watch SpaceX Boldly Looks to Blast ‘Millions of People to Mars’ With the space shuttle era now over and U.S. space flight on the verge of going private for the near future, the company behind the so-called SpaceX project has ambitious plans to make space flight cheaper for cargo and for… Continue watching
Apr 17 Watch Space Shuttle Discovery Draws Eyes to Sky for Final Flight NASA's space shuttle Discovery captivated people in and around the nation's capital Tuesday as it flew piggy-back on a 747 over the Capitol en route on its last landing at Dulles International Airport. Gwen Ifill and Valerie Neal, a curator… Continue watching
Apr 17 Watch Miles O’Brien Reflects on Shuttle Program Shortcomings Miles O'Brien on Discovery's Final Flight, Shuttle Program Shortcomings. Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch 50 Years Later, Astronaut John Glenn Recounts His Historic Mission in Space 50 Years Later, Astronaut John Glenn Recounts His Historic Mission in Space… Continue watching
Dec 15 Asteroid Vesta Revealed By Jenny Marder On December 12, Dawn maneuvered into its closest orbit yet around giant asteroid Vesta. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta at an altitude of about 130 miles. Since NASA's spacecraft dawn snapped into orbit around the object, it has been… Continue reading