Posts tagged with NASA

Last Updated: Jun. 12, 2018 · 7:39 p.m.

The bronze statue of John "Jack" Swigert at Denver International Airport. (Courtesy Denver International Airport)

Jack Swigert, the astronaut commemorated at DIA, did an amazing thing 47 years ago today

Being an astronaut from Denver may not be enough to get a bronze statue of oneself installed at Denver International Airport.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) field questions from reporters in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mockup March 31 during the second of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Expedition 51. (Rob Navias/NASA)

OPINION: You are not sufficiently awed by the process of shooting a man from Colorado into space

This is going to be Colorado native Col. Jack D. Fischer's first time in space. Please clap.

An artist's rendition of the Lucy spacecraft. (Courtesy of the Southwest Research Institute)

NASA selects Lockheed Martin and the Southwest Research Institute for next Discovery Program mission

NASA has released the details of its upcoming Discovery Program missions — two asteroid reconnaissance missions intended to launch in 2021 and 2023.

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NOAA's GOES-East satellite is providing continuous coverage of the major winter storm affecting the U.S. East Coast on January 21, 2014. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr)

NASA selected ULA competitor SpaceX for a groundbreaking mission to map water movement

NASA selected ULA's launch competitor SpaceX for a new mission to study previously unmapped water patterns.

Taylor Fleury, Nick Flannigan and Derek Sweatt pose in front of the GOES-S weather satellite. (Chloe Aiello/Denverite)

GOES-R weather satellite launched from Cape Canaveral Saturday, here’s what’s next for ULA

After GOES-R weather satellites successful launch Saturday, United Launch Alliance turns to future launches. Weather monitoring updates will come after GOES-R's six month calibration.

LOOK: Behind the scenes at Lockheed Martin for the GOES-R launch

Lockheed Martin opened the doors of its Littleton facility for an exclusive peek at weather satellite GOES-S, before the Saturday launch of GOES-R.

Prototype of the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager in 2013. (Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center )

NOAA’s GOES-R weather satellite launch date set, according to NASA

The long-awaited launch will introduced the first major updates to the weather monitoring since the 1980s.

Orbital Sciences Corporation launched its Antares rocket from the Wallops Island launch site in 2013. (NASA Goddard Space Flight/2013)

2 years after explosion, Orbital ATK collaborating with Centennial company for new rocket

ULA postpones WorldView-4 launch, again

United Launch Alliance is experiencing historic delays on its WorldView-4 mission launch.

An Atlas V rocket ready for launch at Cape Canaveral. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr)

Where to watch the OSIRIS-REx launch tonight

If you can't make it to Florida, NASA will be hosting a live feed of the mission launch that you can stream at home.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers rotate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for testing. (NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis)

OSIRIS-REx briefing tidbits: Ruling out “Andromeda Strain,” “Armageddon”

Together with United Launch Alliance and a host of national and international collaborators, NASA will send the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx into space Thursday.

OSIRIS-REx launch nears, rocket has moved to its launch site

A parachute for the Mars InSight mission is tested in a tunnel. (Charly W. Karl/Flickr)

Mars InSight mission date set for 2018

A vacuum leak in one of the instruments onboard postponed the mission, but NASA has officially set the window for May 5, 2018.

A ULA rocket is ready to do its part in NASA’s first-ever asteroid return mission

A United Launch Alliance-made rocket is good to go for a seven-year mission into space. The objective this time: collect ancient space rocks.

Grab the tissues and listen to Curiosity rover sing “Happy Birthday” to itself on Mars

Sun peeking over the International Space Station. (Courtesy of NASA)

Watch CU Boulder launch more technology into space

CU flexed its aerospace engineering muscles again as its high-tech hardware boarded the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station Monday.

Engineers prepare to install the Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) propellent tank at Lockheed Martin in Denver. (Courtesy of Lockheed Martin/Flickr)

Lockheed Martin selected by NASA for more Mars mission research

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