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“Great works and great folly may be indistinguishable from the outset.” Wisdom from NASA’s Adam Steltzner, lead engineer at the Mars Science Laboratory and mastermind of the Curiosity rover landing system, at The New Yorker’s Big Story event.
Or, as Bertrand Russell famously put it, “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Because you’ve always wondered: If you cry in space, do your tears fall? NASA commander Chris Hadfield offers an empirical answer.
Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across the Agency, including all education and public outreach efforts conducted by programs and projects…
In this heartbreaking internal memo, NASA sets out to “implement a number of new cost-saving measures” at the expense of education and public outreach. What would Neil deGrasse Tyson say?
How To Get To Mars – breathtaking, chill-inducing NASA HD film. Do yourself a favor and watch in full-screen.
Complement with the “overview effect” explaining the psychology of cosmic awe and this 1971 discussion on Mars exploration featuring Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke.
Apollo 15 map and image gallery from NASA. Those were the glory days of space exploration, the future of which now hangs in precarious balance.
What’s it like to be an astronaut? An animated first-hand account by NASA’s Jerry Carr, who tells his fascinating life story.
Complement with Sally Ride’s first-hand account of what it’s like to take off on a Space Shuttle, and this illustrated chronology of the Space Age.
62 years of climate change in 13 seconds – remarkable, chilling timelapse of NASA meteorological data on global temperature rises.
Patent drawing for the Fisher Anti-Gravity Pen, a.k.a. the NASA “space pen” that popular legend says the Russians outsmarted with a mere pencil.
Wonderful short film about NASA’s Dawn mission, narrated by Leonard Nimoy.
NASA celebrates 50 years of space photography with some astounding images. Complement with the breathtaking visual legacy of the Hubble space telescope.
NASA’s new Buzz-Lightyear-inspired spacesuit. Complement with the fascinating design history of the first Apollo spacesuit.
Earth as Art – fantastic new free 160-page ebook and iPad app of satellite and aerial photography from NASA.
