Spacewalkers Shane Kimbrough of NASA (left) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency worked to install new roll out solar arrays on the International Space Station’s P-6 truss structure. This latest spacewalk took place on Sunday, June 20, 2021. During the eighth spacewalk of the year, […]
NASA Expedition 65 astronaut Shane Kimbrough is pictured during the Friday, June 18, 2021, spacewalk to install new roll out solar arrays on the International Space Station’s P-6 truss structure. Image Credit: NASA 2021年6月18日星期五，NASA第65号远征队宇航员肖恩·金布罗在太空行走，为国际空间站的P-6桁架结构安装新的太阳能阵列。 图片来源:NASA
On Monday, June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom. That day of liberation became known as Juneteenth, when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by Union troops in Galveston, Texas. On Thursday, June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law legislation
In a series of flights between June 1-6, 2021, Stratodynamics Inc. launched its HiDRON stratospheric glider from a high-altitude balloon at Spaceport America in New Mexico. HiDRON carried technology supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program for the first time. The uncrewed HiDRON stratospheri
When NASA’s Orion spacecraft launches aboard the powerful Space Launch System rocket for the spacecraft’s first mission around the Moon later this year, a suited manikin will be aboard outfitted with sensors to provide data on what crew members may experience in flight. As part of the uncrewed Artem
Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs lower the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage – the largest part of the rocket – onto the mobile launcher, in between the twin solid rocket boosters, inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
June 14 of each year is celebrated as Flag Day in the U.S. According to the Library of Congress’s online site, “on May 30, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14. The day commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Str
The beauty of our home planet is shown in this long exposure photograph. Taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean, it reveals Earth’s atmospheric glow and star trails. Image Credit: NASA 这张长时间曝光的照片展示了我们星球的美丽。这张照片是由国际空间站在印度洋上空267英里的轨道上拍摄的，它显示了地球的
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the Sun rises behind the United States Capitol Building, Thursday, June 10, 2021, as seen from Arlington, Virginia. The annular or “ring of fire” solar eclipse is only completely visible in Greenland, Northern Russia, and Canada. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 202
One definition for goulash, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is a mixture of heterogeneous elements, or jumble. This 2017 image of galaxy Arp 299 is just that. Arp 299 is a system located about 140 million light-years from Earth, containing two galaxies that are merging, which has create
