Neil Armstrong Remembered for 'Grace and Humility'
Apollo astronauts, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and others honored Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong at the Washington National Cathedral Thursday, recalling that "in Neil's mind, it was never about Neil."
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ISS Crew Members Prep for Departure
To prepare for their upcoming departure, Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba participated in a session of Soyuz descent training and gathered and packed items for return to Earth.
They are scheduled to undock from the station in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft at 7:09 p.m. EDT Sunday, landing a few hours later in the steppe of Kazakhstan at 10:53 p.m. EDT
Space Shuttle Endeavour Preps for Ferry Flight
At 5:04 a.m. EDT on Friday, space shuttle Endeavour began moving out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A multi-day ferry flight is scheduled to begin Monday at about 7:15 a.m., targeting delivery of Endeavour to Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, Sept. 20. In October, Endeavour will move to the California Science Center to begin a new mission inspiring future explorers.
Curiosity's 32 Meters of Open Martian Road
Sol 38 (Sept. 13, 2012) was destined to be a driving day for NASA's latest edition to the Martian landscape. Curiosity perambulated over 105 feet (32 meters) of unpaved Gale Crater during yesterday's drive. The rover's odometer now clocks in at 466 feet (142 meters) covered since the landing on Aug. 5.
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Listen to the 'Sound of Space'
Audio of the phenomenon known as 'chorus' radio waves within Earth’s magnetosphere that are audible to the human ear, as recorded on Sept. 5, 2012, by RBSP’s Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS). Five six-second 'events' are captured in this sample, and they are played end-to-end, one right after the other, without gaps.