Thomas Zurbuchen

The missions will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.

Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, announced that an Alabama built Atlas V rocket has launched the Solar Orbiter. “Big news! Last night, NASA’s Solar Orbiter was successfully launched atop United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rocket,” Rep. Brooks said. “The Atlas V is built at ULA’s Decatur manufacturing facility and last night’s launch was ULA’s 135th … Continued

Monday, NASA announced that it has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission. The site was selected after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet were scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary … Continued

Tuesday, October 30 NASA announced in a statement that after nine years in deep space discovering thousands of alien planets NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired from further science operations. Kepler’s nine-year mission collected data that indicates that our sky is filled with billions of hidden planets, more … Continued