Space Contents Archive

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II flying untethered above Earth in the Manned Maneuvering Unit, 320 feet (98 meters) away from space shuttle Challenger during STS-41B on February 7, 1984. #OTD

People often ask me why I want to become an engineer, I just show them this.

Astronaut Nicole Mann installs hardware outside the International Space Station during last week's six-hour, 41-minute spacewalk

Recycle a poor quality telescope?

I searched across the forum, and Google too of course, but can find no relevant information to my question: How can I responsibly recycle a garbage telescope? I have a Jason brand from my childhood, but it has always been rather terrible. I cannot even find bright stars in it half the time, etc etc. Most here agree it is a junk brand. So... besides putting it into a landfill, how can I responsibly dispose of it? Thank you

It’ll be pretty cool to know if what I believe I’m looking at is Jupiter and Neptune?

My first attempt at photographing a deep sky object (Orion nebula)

NASA really wants to visit our Moon’s volcanic Gruithuisen Domes

About 70,000 years ago, a binary stellar system called ‘Scholz’s star’ passed within only 52,000 astronomical units (AU) of the Sun. (Credit: José A. Peñas / SINC.)

Curiosity Rover on Mars [9385 x 12595]

A Comet and Two Dippers

The Waxing Gibbous Moon

Andromeda Galaxy (3200x2000)

Rocket launch trackers?

I missed ANOTHER rocket launch. And I'm kinda mad about it. I've missed every launch I was excited to see. I've missed every launch EVER. I'm tired of the replays man, I just wanna see one live. Is there a place that tracks rocket launches and/or gives gives updates and notifications about it? Not just for nasa but any space ports, seeing Chinese rockets live would be cool too.

Surface shot of the moon

Aurora's Captured by Hubble Telescope on Jupiter [2224 x 2216]