# nasa - Friday 13 May, 2022
# Houston We Have A Plant
# Houston We Have A Plant
The ground-breaking experiment has given researchers hope that it may be possible to one day grow plants directly on the moon.
# nasa - Wednesday 27 April, 2022
# Liftoff
# Liftoff
The crew, including Jessica Watkins, the first black woman making a long-term spaceflight, will spend five months at the orbiting lab.
# nasa - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# We Have A Problem
# We Have A Problem
Liquid hydrogen is extremely hazardous, with officials noting that the systems had been checked for leaks prior to the test.
# nasa - Friday 8 April, 2022
# Liftoff
# Liftoff
It is SpaceX’s first private charter flight to the orbiting lab after two years of carrying astronauts there for Nasa.
# nasa - Saturday 18 December, 2021
# Space Jam
# Space Jam
Multiple problems forced delays and a tripling of the telescope’s original budget with a final price tag of nearly $10 billion.
# nasa - Sunday 12 December, 2021
# Meteor Shower
# Meteor Shower
Geminids are very bright, moderately fast, and are unusual in being multi-coloured.
# nasa - Friday 10 December, 2021
# Discovery
# Discovery
Scientists said the observatory will unveil the most dramatic and extreme parts of the universe as never before.
# nasa - Wednesday 24 November, 2021
# Disaster Prep
# Disaster Prep
The asteroids in question pose no threat to our planet.
# nasa - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Don't Want To Miss A Thing
# Don't Want To Miss A Thing
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to determine whether this is an effective way to deflect the course of an asteroid.
# nasa - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
# Perseverance
# Perseverance
The word has been looked up on its website more than 243,000 times globally during 2021.
# nasa - Friday 12 November, 2021
# Women In Science
# Women In Science
Dr Niamh Shaw says it took her Mars simulation training for her to realise just how precious life on Earth really is.
# nasa - Saturday 16 October, 2021
# Lucy In The Sky
# Lucy In The Sky
Lucy is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia nearly half a century ago.
# nasa - Thursday 2 September, 2021
# Perserverance
# Perserverance
An attempt by the rover to collect a sample last month had failed.
# nasa - Thursday 15 July, 2021
# Moon Wobble
# Moon Wobble
Flooding will affect almost all US mainland coastlines, sometimes in clusters that could last over a month.
# nasa - Monday 28 June, 2021
# THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
# THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
The concentration of water vapour in the clouds may be enough to sustain life.
# nasa - Thursday 3 June, 2021
# Venus
# Venus
Earth’s closest neighbour is also the solar system’s hottest planet.
# nasa - Saturday 15 May, 2021
# The Red Planet
# The Red Planet
A rover will join an American craft which arrived at the red planet in February.
# nasa - Sunday 2 May, 2021
# International Space Station
# International Space Station
The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company.
# nasa - Monday 19 April, 2021
# Mars
# Mars
The helicopter beamed images of the feat back to Earth this morning.
# nasa - Saturday 17 April, 2021
# Space
# Space
A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
# nasa - Friday 9 April, 2021
# Astronauts
# Astronauts
The trio launched successfully from Russia’s leased Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.
# nasa - Sunday 4 April, 2021
# Flight On Mars?
# Flight On Mars?
The ultra-light aircraft was on board the Perseverance rover when it landed on Mars in February.
# nasa - Saturday 6 March, 2021
# Perseverance
# Perseverance
The Perseverance rover completed a drive lasting more than half an hour.
# nasa - Friday 5 March, 2021
The equipment will support the first set of improved solar panels, due to arrive in June.
# nasa - Sunday 28 February, 2021
# NASA
# NASA
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
# nasa - Wednesday 24 February, 2021
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said.
# nasa - Monday 22 February, 2021
# The Red Planet
# The Red Planet
The agency also released new images the rover took on the Martian surface.
# nasa - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Perseverance
# Perseverance
The rover – a scientific laboratory the size of a car – is on a mission to search for signs of ancient life.
# nasa - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
The rover landed on the red planet in the Jezero Crater at 8:55 Irish time.
# Red Planet
# Red Planet
Perseverance is the largest and most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to Mars.
# nasa - Sunday 7 February, 2021
# Mars Or Bust
# Mars Or Bust
Both the UAE and China are newcomers to Mars, where more than half of Earth’s emissaries have failed.
# nasa - Thursday 14 January, 2021
# Dig Deep
# Dig Deep
The digger was supposed to dig 16ft into Mars but only drilled down a couple of feet.
# nasa - Thursday 24 December, 2020
# Look Up
# Look Up
We’re starting another rotation around the sun. Here’s what to watch out for in the skies.
# nasa - Friday 4 December, 2020
# Space Talk
# Space Talk
Last Friday, Adam spoke about his love of space and his ambition to work for NASA .
# nasa - Sunday 29 November, 2020
# Amazing Adam
# Amazing Adam
Adam, whose wish is to work with NASA when he’s older, appeared on the Late Late Toy Show on Friday night.
# nasa - Monday 26 October, 2020
# NASA
# NASA
The findings may have implications for future missions to the moon.
# nasa - Sunday 25 October, 2020
# NASA
# NASA
NASA is to announce “new science results” about the Moon tomorrow.
# nasa - Saturday 24 October, 2020
# Bennu Asteroid
# Bennu Asteroid
The probe is thought to have collected some 400 grams of fragments, far more than the minimum of 60 grams needed.
# nasa - Wednesday 21 October, 2020
# Bennu
# Bennu
Only Japan has previously collected asteroid samples.
# nasa - Sunday 2 August, 2020
# Back To Earth
# Back To Earth
The capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at the expected time of 7.48pm.
Mostly cloudy, a shower in the afternoon
Max: 18 °C
Min: 9 °C
Variable clouds with a stray t-shower
Max: 14 °C
Min: 6 °C
