为猎户座的第二次返回做准备

为猎户座的第二次返回做准备

The Crew Module Test Article (CMTA), a full-scale mockup of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, is seen in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on July 26, 2023, during the first in a series of tests conducted by NASA and the Department of Defense to demonstrate and evaluate the processes, procedures, and hardware for recovery operations for crewed Artemis missions. This test is the first specifically in support of the Artemis II mission and allowed the team to practice what it will be like to recover astronauts and get them back to the recovery ship safely. Image Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux 在NASA正在进行的回收测试10 (URT-10)期间,机组人员模块测试文章(CMTA)出现在太平洋水域。CMTA是猎户座飞船的全尺寸模型,由NASA及其国防部合作伙伴使用它来练习阿尔忒弥斯载人任务的回收程序。URT-10是第一次专门支持阿尔忒弥斯2号任务的测试,让团队练习如何回收宇航员,并将他们安全地带回回收船。 影像来源:NASA/Frank Michaux

哈勃望远镜窥视宁静星系

哈勃望远镜窥视宁静星系

The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies around 192 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces and is almost face-on when viewed from Earth, displaying a bright central bar and tightly wound spiral arms. Despite its tranquil appearance, UGC 12295 played host to a catastrophically violent explosion – a supernova – detected in 2015. Supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars and are responsible for forging many of the elements found here on Earth. Two different teams of astronomers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to observe UGC 12295 and sift through the wreckage of this vast stellar explosion. The first team examined the supernova’s detritus to better understand the evolution…

实习生展翅高飞

实习生展翅高飞

NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) interns Dorothy Sue Grimmer and Victoria Tran pose for a photo in front of the Dynamic Aviation B200 ahead of their morning research flight on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. SARP is an eight-week summer internship program for rising senior undergraduate students to acquire hands-on research experience in all aspects of a scientific campaign using one or more NASA Airborne Science Program flying science laboratories. Learn more about the wealth of internships offered at NASA. Text credit: Evan T. Flatt Image credit: NASA/Angelique Herring 2023年6月13日,星期二,NASA学生飞行研究计划(SARP)实习生多萝西·苏·格里默和维多利亚·特朗在上午的研究飞行前在动力航空B200前合影。 SARP是一个为期八周的暑期实习项目,面向即将升入高年级的本科生,通过一个或多个NASA机载科学项目的飞行科学实验室,获得科学活动各个方面的实践研究经验。 了解更多关于NASA提供的丰富实习机会。 文稿来源: Evan T. Flatt 图片来源: NASA/Angelique Herring

绿湖的蓝绿色水域

绿湖的蓝绿色水域

Woody Hoburg took this photo of Laguna Verde’s inviting waters as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles (425 km) over South America on July 7, 2023. Laguna Verde, which has an altitude of over 14,000 feet (4,300 meters), is located in the Andes mountains of Chile. Even taller landmarks surround the high-altitude lake, including Ojos del Salado—the tallest peak in Chile and the highest volcano on Earth. See more photos of Earth taken by astronauts on the space station. Image Credit: NASA/Woody Hoburg 2023年7月7日,国际空间站在南美洲上空绕轨道飞行264英里(425公里)时,伍迪·霍伯格拍摄了这张绿湖迷人水域的照片。绿湖位于智利的安第斯山脉,海拔超过14,000英尺(4,300米)。高海拔湖泊周围甚至还有更高的地标,包括智利最高峰和地球上最高的火山——奥霍斯·德尔·萨拉多火山。 查看更多由宇航员在空间站拍摄的地球照片。 图片来源: NASA/Woody Hoburg

NASA,行业合作伙伴公布混合动力电动飞机涂装方案

NASA,行业合作伙伴公布混合动力电动飞机涂装方案

GE Aerospace and magniX have revealed the paint schemes of the hybrid electric aircraft they will fly as part of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EFPD) project. Under EPFD, GE Aerospace is developing a megawatt-class hybrid electric powertrain for ground and flight tests in the middle of this decade. Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences are partnering with GE Aerospace to support the flight tests using a modified Saab 340B aircraft. The flight test campaigns will be based out of Aurora Flight Sciences’ facilities, including in Manassas, Virginia. For its demonstration, magniX is partnering with AeroTEC and Air Tindi to test its hybrid powertrain installed on a modified DeHavilland “Dash 7” aircraft. The flight test campaigns will be based out of the AeroTEC Flight…

一朵野花的特写

一朵野花的特写

Elaborate Passiflora incarnata, or purple passionflower, sit pretty in a field at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 13, 2023. Kennedy and the National Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge share a border and are home to more than 330 native and migratory bird species, 65 amphibian and reptile species, and more than 1,000 different types of plants including the purple passionflower. Kennedy is responsible for more protected species than any other federal property in the continental United States, and there are diverse and varied efforts to protect and preserve ecological systems at the center while simultaneously supporting the NASA mission. Image credit: NASA/Frank Michaux 2023年6月13日,在佛罗里达州的NASA肯尼迪航天中心,精致的西番莲,或紫色西番莲漂亮地坐落在田野里。肯尼迪航天中心和国家梅里特岛野生动物保护区接壤,共有330多种本土和候鸟、65种两栖动物和爬行动物,以及包括紫色西番莲在内的1,000多种不同类型植物的家园。肯尼迪航天中心负责的受保护物种比美国大陆上任何其他联邦财产都要多,在支持NASA任务的同时,该中心有各种各样的努力来保护和维护中心的生态系统。 图片来源: NASA/Frank Michaux

OSIRIS-REx任务在犹他沙漠彩排

OSIRIS-REx任务在犹他沙漠彩排

In preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, recovery teams tour the projected landing ellipse in the Utah desert on July 17, 2023. The sample, collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, will return to Earth on September 24, 2023. The rocks and dust collected from the asteroid will offer scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago. The team has rehearsed portions of the recovery operation many times this year, but this was the most realistic rehearsal yet. See highlights from the rehearsal on the OSIRIS-REx blog. Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber 2023年7月17日,为了准备从NASA的OSIRIS-REx任务中取回样本回收舱,回收团队在犹他州沙漠的预计着陆椭圆中巡视。该样本于2020年10月由NASA的OSIRIS-REx航天器从小行星贝努上采集,将于2023年9月24日返回地球。从小行星上收集到的岩石和尘埃将为科学家们提供一扇了解大约45亿年前太阳和行星形成的窗口。 该团队今年已经多次排练了部分恢复操作,但这是迄今为止最真实的一次排练。在OSIRIS-REx博客上查看彩排集锦。 影像来源:NASA/Keegan Barber

54年前:阿波罗11号宇航员在月球上行走

54年前:阿波罗11号宇航员在月球上行走

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during a walk on the lunar surface. The lunar module is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, mission commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. Image Credit: NASA 首次登月任务阿波罗11号的登月舱飞行员、宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林在月球表面行走时,在展开的美国国旗旁摆出姿势拍照。登月舱在左边,宇航员的脚印在月球的土壤中清晰可见。任务指挥官、宇航员尼尔·A·阿姆斯特朗用70毫米的哈苏月球表面相机拍摄了这张照片。 影像来源:NASA

星城卫星发射升空

星城卫星发射升空

On July 17, 2023, NASA’s four Starling CubeSats successfully deployed after having launched aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket, shown in this image. NASA sent the team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to see if they’re able to cooperate on their own, without real-time updates from mission control. The four CubeSats will fly in two different formations to test several technologies paving the way towards a future where swarms of satellites can cooperate to do science in deep space. The Starling mission will last at least six months, positioning the spacecraft about 355 miles above Earth and spaced about 40 miles apart. See more photos from the launch on Flickr and get the latest on Starling on the Small Satellite Missions blog….

北非上空云层密布

北非上空云层密布

As the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above North Africa, swirls of clouds covered the sky. To the bottom right of the image, one of the station’s roll-out solar arrays peeks through. Astronauts aboard the space station see 16 sunrises and sunsets per day due to their high orbital velocity—17,500 miles per hour. In the more than 20 years that people have been living aboard the station, it has circumnavigated Earth tens of thousands of times. Image Credit: NASA 当国际空间站在北非上空259英里的轨道上运行时,天空布满了漩涡状的云。在图像的右下方,空间站的太阳能电池阵列隐约可见。由于轨道速度很高(17500英里/小时),空间站上的宇航员每天能看到16次日出和日落。在人们居住在空间站的20多年里,它已经绕地球飞行了数万次。 影像来源:NASA