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VideoCassini survives daring flight through plumes of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft radioed home Wednesday after a high-speed dash through the wispy fountains of Saturn's moon Enceladus, sampling particles that hold telltale hints whether alien life could survive somewhere in the depths of a vast global ocean hidden beneath a crust of rumpled ice.
VideoRecord-breaking Hurricane Patricia viewed from orbit
Astronauts on the International Space Station and a fleet of Earth-watching satellites caught views of Hurricane Patricia, the most powerful cyclone on record in the Western Hemisphere, after the storm exploded in strength to become a monster Category 5 hurricane Friday.
VideoOTD…Oct. 23 and STS-120
#OTD in 2007...Discovery launched Harmony as the gateway to future international science laboratories
VideoOTD…Oct. 20 and STS-73
#OTD in 1995...Columbia launched on a microgravity science Spacelab flight
VideoNASA to post new ‘blue marble’ pictures every day
Your daily dose of planet Earth is now just a click away, thanks to a new NASA website hosting photos looking back at the world from a small satellite stationed almost a million miles away, realizing a dream of former Vice President Al Gore nearly two decades ago.
VideoImagery from Friday’s fiery Proton rocket launch
Turkey's newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft's Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds.
VideoOrbcomm first in Falcon 9’s return-to-flight launch queue
Going with a philosophy that favors incremental testing of an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX officials said Friday that eleven mini-satellites for Orbcomm's data relay business will fly on the company's first mission since a launch failure in June.
VideoOTD…Oct. 18 and STS-34 and STS-58
#OTD in 1989...Atlantis launched the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter and in 1993...Columbia launched on a life sciences Spacelab flight