/r/nasa
r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
Welcome to r/NASA
/r/NASA is for anything related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the latest news, events, current and future missions, and more.
Note: r/nasa is an unofficial forum and not representative of NASA or the US government
Please try to keep everything posted relevant to NASA.
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Rule #1: All submissions must be related to NASA
The focus of r/NASA is primarily around NASA itself and the work it does. Submissions and comments should reflect that focus.
Rule #2: Only images with content directly related to NASA are allowed
Drawings/artwork, astrophotography (not from NASA), pictures of Legos, memes, screenshots, image macros, etc. are generally not permitted. Images should be direct links to the original NASA image whenever possible, otherwise a source for the image must be provided in the comments. Submitted images with requests for identification ("what is this?") will be removed.
Certain exceptions are made on Creative Sunday, please see the wiki page for details.
Rule #3: Video submissions must come from an official NASA or related account.
Video submissions must come from an official source (ie.. NASA or ESA). Other content may be approved at the discretion of moderators. Links to the "NASA live stream - Earth From Space LIVE Feed | Incredible ISS live stream of earth from space" or similar videos (including UFO videos, etc.) will be removed and posters subject to a ban.
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Low-effort posts will be removed. Examples of low-effort posts are those which can be easily found with an Internet search (e.g., “When did Apollo 11 launch?”).
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- Former NASA flight surgeon D.K. Broadwell, MD, MPH
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See Also
Current NASA Missions:
- /r/APOD
- /r/CuriosityRover
- /r/HiRISE
- /r/InSightLander
- /r/ISS
- /r/JamesWebb (JWST)
- /r/JunoMission
- /r/LucyMission
- /r/PerseveranceRover/
- /r/OSIRIS-REx
- /r/SpaceLaunchSystem
Past NASA Missions:
Other Space Agencies/Companies:
- /r/AndoyaSpace
- /r/BlueOrigin
- /r/ESA (Europe)
- /r/ISRO (India)
- /r/JAXA (Japan)
- r/NorthropGrumman/
- /r/Roscosmos/
- /r/SpaceX
- /r/ULA (United Launch Alliance)
- /r/VirginGalactic/
Topical subreddits:
/r/nasa
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Frequent Flyer Program
Did NASA get rid of their Frequent Flyer Program login page? I remember signing up for the Perseverance Rover mission, allowing you to have your name on the rover and you got a little "boarding pass" you could print. To login, you just had to put in your first & last name and you could see your miles boarding passes and badges from the missions you signed up for. But now I can't find the page to log into. Anyone else have this issue? I lost my printed boarding pass and just wanted to download another so I'm gonna be pretty bummed if they fully got rid of it. Lol
Besides that I only found the Artemis and Viper ones that I regrettably didn't sign up for, and they're closed. So can't login. And I think those require a pin, which wasn't needed for the Frequent Flyer Program if I recall.
11:53 UTC
A curious sandhill crane on the grounds of NASA's Kennedy Space Center
19:45 UTC
i have a question about the people in space right now
there are ten people in space across four different ships, are they all able to interact with each other? or are they confined to their own ships? is there any crossover? this is a serious question i would like to know the answer to, i cant find any answers when i google. thank you! i hope the astronauts are not too lonely out there.
04:07 UTC
When will the astronauts for next Artemis missions be picked?
By what year do you think the astronauts will be selected?
22:23 UTC
Scientists at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are developing a prototype that uses plasma to recycle water and gas in space
22:00 UTC
Spin Gravity on the ISS
(bear with me as I just thought of this this hour and haven't gotten around to calculations yet)
Ok, so. From my understandings, to generate spin gravity on the ISS, you could separate the station in 2 down the middle between the solar panels. Then get a module with the ring on it, put gears in the spin module and in the 2 separated modules of the space station. Then, set the thing to spin at a set speed using shielded plutonium for power, and the gears prevent the entire station from spinning. You could just turn it off to oil the gears and stuff, then turn it back on. If it could work, then yay! If not, then I will accept my mistake with grace. If any NASA engineer or physics professor could look at this, it would be great. See ya for now!
03:47 UTC
Does Mike Leinbach still give Launch Director Tours at KSC?
I've been told that the best way to experience the KSC is the rare Launch Director Tour, which is given by Mike Leinbach. Looking online, it doesn't seem like it's happened since May 2023.
Does anyone know if Mike Leinbach (or any other launch director) is still doing tours once a year or so? If not, is there any other tour experience that comes close to this? I'm hoping to visit some time this year, but I can pretty much do any time of year if there's a good reason.
02:15 UTC
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:11am ET on Wednesday, Jan. 15
22:34 UTC
LGBTQ History of NASA
Hi, I'm researching the LGBTQ history of NASA, much of which is untold. Does anyone have any stories to share? Feel free to share via a Google Form as well: https://forms.gle/HdBxUbmKcTB69kvM8
17:02 UTC
"Nasa" Solder
Has anyone heard of this? I saw a piece of circuit board from Rockwell International labeled as such. Looked like an employee award.
11:39 UTC
Original golden record audio hunt
Does anyone know of somewhere i can listen to the full origional unedited golden record. I found a youtube video saying golden record full audio but the video is 5 hours long, to my knowledge the origional record only held approximately 1 hour 50 minutes of audio.
11:00 UTC