Tag: Nasa
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After challenging docking, Boeing Starliner crew arrives at I.S.S.
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…
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First 'intense' solar storm in 20 years brings spectacular aurora lights
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…
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Boeing Starliner crew mission postponed until May 17
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…
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NASA promotes space research in anti-cancer fight
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…
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America returns spacecraft to the moon, this is the first private sector
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…
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NASA helicopter’s mission to Mars ends after three years
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”…
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Russia and NASA extend joint ISS flight agreement until 2025
“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…
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Scientists discover interior structure of mysterious dwarf planet Eris
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…
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Astronaut Borman of the first moon mission passes away
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.…
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Scientists have detected oxygen in the harmful atmosphere of Venus
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…
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Selfie with Asteroid Bennu: Exploring Earth’s Origins at the Smithsonian in Washington
In a quiet room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a small piece of rock, no bigger than a piece of gravel. The fragment may seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu, which scientists are studying in the hopes of finding out whether the asteroid…
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After a record-setting 371 days in space, US astronaut Frank Rubio got used to Earth
So as a precaution, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, returned the ship to Earth. It sent another, empty one – which meant there would be room for Rubio and company to return, but they would have to pick up the mission assigned to the crew that was originally supposed to be on that other ship.…
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Asteroid sample return mission successful for NASA
Asteroids are composed of the original materials of the Solar System, which are about 4.5 billion years old, and have remained relatively intact. “They can give us clues about how the solar system formed and evolved,” said Melissa Morris, OSIRIS-Rex program executive. “This is our own origin story.” “We believe that asteroids and comets that…
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One Giant Step: The Race to the Moon Has Heated
The launch of Luna-25 on 11 August was the first such Russian mission in nearly 50 years and marked the beginning of Moscow’s new lunar project.The lander was successfully placed in lunar orbit on August 16, but on Sunday, the space agency Roscosmos announced that it “ceased to exist after a collision with the lunar…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds first evidence of wet-dry climate on Mars, which probably supported life
While climbing the slope of a sedimentary mountain in 2021, Curiosity found salt deposits forming a hexagonal pattern in the soil from about four billion years ago. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the rover’s instruments identified patterns in the form of cracks in the dry soil. “When the lake dries up…