“There are a lot of photos, a lot of stories, and oh my God, I haven’t even started the process we’ve gone through. We still have two days to go, and it’s too deep to ride a fireball through the atmosphere.” Glover and fellow NASA astronauts Reed Wiseman and Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy […]
“Reed, Victor, Christina and Jeremy, you will take with you on this historic mission the heart of this Artemis team, the courageous spirit of the American people and our partners around the world, and the hopes and dreams of a new generation,” said Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson. “Good luck, Divine Speed, Artemis II. Let’s go,” […]
Starliner is the sixth US-built spacecraft to fly NASA astronauts, followed by the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs in the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011 and SpaceX's Crew Dragon since 2020. Between 2011 and 2020, the United States relied on Russian Soyuz rockets to get to the ISS. Boeing's program […]
Photographer Sean O'Riordan uses social media platforms Authorities informed satellite operators, airlines and power grids to take precautionary measures for possible disruptions caused by changes in the Earth's magnetic field. Elon Musk, whose Starlink satellite internet operator has about 5,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, described the solar storm as “the biggest in a long […]
United Launch Alliance, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture responsible for the rocket, initially said the launch would be delayed to at least May 10. But further analysis revealed that the valve was too worn and needed to be replaced. The rocket will be taken back to its hangar for repairs. “NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test […]
Biden launched the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative in 2016 when he was vice president, echoing a speech by John F. Kennedy nearly 60 years ago that outlined the bold goal of sending an American to the moon. According to the White House, the goal of the “moonshot” is to halve the cancer death rate over the […]
The remaining merchandise was sent on behalf of Intuitive Machines' private customers, and includes 125 stainless steel Mini Moons created by artist Jeff Koons. The cargo can last for seven days before lunar night falls, rendering Odysseus inactive. NASA paid Intuitive Machines US$118 million to ship its hardware under a new initiative called Commercial Lunar […]
Teddy Zanetos, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told reporters Thursday that the broken blade appeared to have hit the surface of Mars during landing, severing “the last 25 percent of the length” of the appendage. . “We lost a large portion of our thrust capacity,” he explained, adding, “we will never know” […]
“An agreement was reached on continuing the cross-flight until 2025,” Roscosmos said in a press release. It said the decision was taken “solely to maintain the reliability of the ISS”. Its purpose is to “guarantee the presence of at least one representative of Roscosmos on the Russian segment and at least one representative of NASA […]
Eris’ interior appears to be rocky beneath an ice shell, researchers said Wednesday. Pluto’s exterior is icy and rocky below, but it has a higher ice content and is thought to have an underground liquid ocean. “We already knew that Eris is more rock-rich than Pluto, but we didn’t know whether Eris had rock separated […]
NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday. He died on November 7 in Billings, Montana. “Today we remember one of NASA’s finest,” agency Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. […]
Oxygen was found to be concentrated at an altitude of about 60 miles (100 km) between those two crustal layers. Oxygen temperatures on the planet ranged from minus 184 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 120 degrees Celsius) during the day to minus 256 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 degrees Celsius) at night. Methods previously used to detect daytime […]