Video: Be Sure to Download the NASA+ App

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If you are trying to learn more about the space programs at NASA, you can download the recently updated NASA+ app, which has a variety of videos and astronomy series to please anyone’s curiosity. For instance, check out the videos under “Scientific Wonders” to learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kepler Space Telescope, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return, and much more.

This free app can bring you up to speed on the earlier space programs as well as provide updates on the latest missions. For example, you can watch the video showing yesterday’s docking of the SpaceX CRS-29 Cargo Dragon Resupply Craft with the International Space Program.

You cannot go wrong with this free app. You can read more about the updated NASA+ app here.

RIP: Frank Borman, Apollo Astronaut

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Image (Credit): Former NASA astronaut Col. (ret.) Frank Borman. (NASA)

Earlier this week, former astronaut Frank Borman, age 95, passed away at his home in Billings, Montana. He was most famous for his role as Commander of the 1968 Apollo 8 Mission, which was the first manned mission to circle the Moon.

He was NASA’s oldest living astronaut.

Here is one of Mr. Borman’s observations that was never answered years ago, nor can it be answered today:

When you’re finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you’re going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people?

You can read more on Mr. Borman’s life and career at these sites:

Rest in peace.

Another Mission to Resupply the ISS Underway

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Image (Credit): The launch of the CRS-19 resupply mission to the ISS on Thursday, November 9. (NASA)

Yesterday, NASA sent another resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. It will not rendezvous with the ISS until early Saturday morning (no sleeping in for the crew).

This mission, CRS-29, will be SpaceX’s 29th supply mission to the ISS. The next most frequent resupplier is Northrop Grumman, which has sent 19 resupply missions to the ISS.

If you are interested in the material being brought to the station, NASA discusses some of the contents here.

You can also follow the progress of the latest mission here.

Pic of the Week: The Horsehead Nebula

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Image (Credit): The Horsehead Nebula courtesy of the Euclid mission. (ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

This week’s image is from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope. It is the famous Horsehead Nebula in all its beauty.

Here is a little more about the image from ESA:

Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. In Euclid’s new observation of this stellar nursery, scientists hope to find many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.