Space and Earth

A NASA capsule carrying pieces of an asteroid successfully landed in Utah on Sept. 24. It will be flown to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Texas for study. Read more: https://wapo.st/3Rz0n66. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

Tracking a mission’s historic return to Earth, a year of science onboard the space station, and the safe arrival of the station’s newest resident astronaut … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets and frozen over several times. Not to mention being ruled by all kinds of crazy lifeforms. 00:00 Earth's Evolution in 10 Minutes 00:37 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO 02:25 3.8 BILLION YEARS AGO 03:16 3.3 BILLION YEARS AGO 03:47 2.4 BILLION YEARS AGO 04:29 1.1 BILLION YEARS AGO 06:22 250 MILLION YEARS AGO 07:33 66 MILLION YEARS AGO 08:03 6 MILLION YEARS AGO

NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program nurtures visionary ideas from America's innovators and entrepreneurs that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of radically better or entirely new aerospace concepts. NIAC projects study innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts to turn science fiction to science fact.