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Friday, October 23, 2015
News

Watch: NASA Satellite Captures Record-Breaking Hurricane Form Over Eastern Pacific

  At 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center reported Patricia became the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on record with

October 23, 2015
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
NASA Satellites Capture Three Hurricanes Marching Across Pacific
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NASA Satellites Capture Three Hurricanes Marching Across Pacific

NASA satellites this week captured images of three simultaneous hurricanes over the Pacific Over near Hawaii, the first time in recorded history that three

September 1, 2015
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
News

Ship Photo of the Day – Ships in Suez Canal Seen from Space

Today’s ship photo comes to us from NASA astronaut Scott Kelly who snapped this photo of ships in line through the Suez Canal from the International

August 13, 2015
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
Shipping News

NASA Tests New Oil Spill Detection Equipment During Live Drill Off Norway

  Scientists from NASA joined in on Norway’s annual oil spill cleanup exercise in the North Sea this year to test out some new oil detection

June 18, 2015
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Engineering News

Ship of The Week – Space Ships – NASA’s (former) Space Rocket Booster Recovery Ship M/V Liberty Star

Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted and updated from gCaptain’s archives. When one thinks of a NASA ship,

May 4, 2015
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
News

NASA’s Orion Crew Module Recovery [PHOTOS]

Following last Friday’s historic first test flight of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft, U.S. Navy sailors were on-hand to recover the Orion Crew Module

December 9, 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
Video: How The International Space Station Helped Rescue a Mariner In Distress
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Video: How The International Space Station Helped Rescue a Mariner In Distress

Since 2010, the International Space Station has been equipped with a space-based Vessel ID System receiver that allows it to track ships at sea by way of a

August 28, 2014
Total Views: 76

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Interesting

Scientists Tracking One of World’s Largest Known Icebergs

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – Scientists are monitoring an iceberg roughly six times the size of Manhattan – one of the largest

April 23, 2014
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Offshore

Statoil and NASA Form Research Partnership

A new partnership between Norwegian oil major Statoil and NASA is looking to explore how space technologies and knowledge can be applied to oil and gas

November 22, 2013
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Blog

Ship Photos Of The Day – Recovery Test of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

The U.S. Navy on Thursday took part in the first recovery test of the NASA Orion spacecraft at Naval Station Norfolk as part of a partnership to develop

August 15, 2013
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Blog

Even Astronauts in Space Read gCaptain

It’s simply amazing what website analytics will tell you these days… Update: …someone here needs to check their calendar.    

March 31, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Blog

Ship Photos of The Day – Fishing for the SpaceX Dragon

On Tuesday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule detached from the International Space Station at 3:56am PT and splashed down safely almost 6 hours later about 200

March 26, 2013
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Blog

Amazon Founder Raises Apollo 11 F-1 Engines from Atlantic Ocean

On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the historic Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, which of course ended

March 20, 2013
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Uncategorized

Brown Water Shipping On Mars?

Is this photo proof that Mars once had an intertwined inland waterway system? NASA scientists say that photos taken recently by the Curiosity Rover reveal

September 27, 2012
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Looking to NASA’s Curiosity Rover For Fresh Ideas
Offshore

Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Looking to NASA’s Curiosity Rover For Fresh Ideas

It has been said that the technology used to drill ultra-deepwater oil and gas wells rivals that of NASA.  Sometimes those comparisons are more literal than

September 7, 2012
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Uncategorized

Arctic Sea Ice Melts Past Record Low

(Bloomberg) — The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has shrunk to the smallest size ever observed in the three decades NASA has monitored it, according

August 30, 2012
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Ship Photos of The Day – Space Shuttle Enterprise Hits the Water… and a Bridge [UPDATE]
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Ship Photos of The Day – Space Shuttle Enterprise Hits the Water… and a Bridge [UPDATE]

Today’s ship photos come to us via New York City where the Space Shuttle Enterprise began its journey over the weekend from JFK International Airport to

June 5, 2012
Total Views: 332

Friday, March 30, 2012
Perpetual Ocean: An Artistic Look at the World’s Ocean Currents
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Perpetual Ocean: An Artistic Look at the World’s Ocean Currents

Following yesterdays amazing visualization showing us for the first time what wind over the United States actually looks like, now we take a look at what ocean

March 30, 2012
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Antarctica About to Calve Massive Iceberg – Photos and Video
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Antarctica About to Calve Massive Iceberg – Photos and Video

In recognition of the start of the 2012 Ice Season, which typically runs from February through July, we bring you this photo showing a massive crack across the

February 2, 2012
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
solid rocket booster recovery at sea
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Solid Rocket Booster Recovery At Sea – HD Video

This is the first ever up-close, high-definition video of Kennedy Space Center’s solid rocket booster (SRB) recovery ships retrieving SRB segments from

March 20, 2011
Total Views: 110
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