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The Ocean Worlds Exploration Program (OWEP) is a NASA program [1] to explore ocean worlds in the outer Solar System that could possess subsurface oceans to assess their habitability and to seek biosignatures of simple extraterrestrial life. Prime targets include moons that harbor hidden oceans beneath a shell of ice: Europa, Enceladus, and ...
In January 2016, NASA approved the addition of a lander, [51] [52] but this was canceled in 2017 because it was deemed too risky. [53] In May 2016, the Ocean Worlds Exploration Program was approved, [54] of which the Europa mission is part. [55] In February 2017, the mission moved from Phase A to Phase B (the preliminary design phase). [56]
USA (NASA) Pioneer 5: 19 August 1960: First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit. USSR Sputnik 5: 25 September 1960 First rocket engine fired in space. USA (NASA) Pioneer P-30 [10] 31 January 1961: First hominidae in space (chimpanzee Ham). First tasks performed in space. USA (NASA) M-R 2: 12 February 1961
A security guard examines the new sign near the entrance to the Lewis Research Center one day after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was officially established. NASA came into being on October 1, 1958, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory became the NASA Lewis ...
11 July 2022: JWST has completed its commissioning activities and is ready to begin full scientific operations. 12 July 2022: JWST's first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...
They’ve explored the furthest reaches of the planet, from polar ice to tropical reefs, as part of a mission to document the ocean’s mesophotic, or “twilight,” zone, an area that lies ...
For NASA, the Aquarius habitat and its surroundings provide a convincing analog for space exploration. [2] Much like space, the undersea world is a hostile, alien place for humans to live. NEEMO crew members experience some of the same challenges there that they would on a distant asteroid, planet (i.e. Mars) or Moon. During NEEMO missions, the ...