Some 17 years after slinging its Spirit and Opportunity rovers towards the Red Planet, NASA is making final preparations ahead of its Mars 2020 mission launch. NASA’s Perseverance rover is all packed away and ready to launch to Mars on Thursday, July 30. NASA will livestream the event as the car-sized rover takes off from […]
It was 50 years ago Monday (April 13) that the Apollo 13 crew famously told NASA: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” You can celebrate the “successful failure” with a NASA documentary and other activities online. On April 13, 1970, three astronauts on their way to the moon experienced an explosion in the service module of […]
NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver supplies to the planned Gateway mini-space station in lunar orbit using a new version of the Dragon cargo vehicle launched atop Falcon Heavy rockets. SpaceX is guaranteed a minimum of two supply missions under the Gateway Logistics Services contract. The cost of each SpaceX cargo mission was not disclosed […]
NASA is enlisting whatever help it can get to make sure its crewed Moon and Mars missions go smoothly, and that might include help from schools. The agency is running a new round of its Moon to Mars Exploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge that encourages university students to study and develop spacefaring tech. […]
SpaceX has won the launch contract for NASA’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid known as Psyche, the space agency announced, including launch services and other mission-related costs valued at $117 million remarkably low for a mission of this scale. The Psyche mission will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, which will launch from Launch […]
NASA’s “InSight” lander touched down on the surface of Mars, with the goal of examining the Red Planet’s interior. InSight has been in operation for around three months, and it’s already turned up some interesting results. According to reports, InSight has detected hundreds of “marsquakes”; planetary tremors that behave similarly to the ground-shaking natural phenomena […]
The SpaceX Crew Dragon, which is to be the first spacecraft to carry humans to orbit from American soil since 2011, has arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch site. NASA and SpaceX are already preparing the vehicle for its first flight manned test and will put it through final testing and prelaunch processing over the […]
The US National Security Agency (NSA) discovered a serious flaw in Windows 10 that could expose users to surveillance or serious data breaches, according to the Washington Post. The bug is a problem for environments that rely on digital certificates to validate the software that machines run, a potentially far-reaching security issue if left unpatched. […]
Boeing’s spacecraft landed safely at New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range at 7:58AM Eastern, making it the first US-made, crew-ready capsule to touch down on solid ground. Previous capsules from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs all landed in the sea. This capsule didn’t have any humans aboard just test dummies, but this is still […]
The Amazon Rainforest often referred to as the “planet’s lungs,” the Amazon rainforest has been subject to a series of devastating fires that the National Institute for Space Research says amounts to more than 75,000 incidents this year alone. Many are calling these fires a deliberate act on the part of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, […]
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 news about the country’s next trip to the Moon has been giving. Both Lockheed Martin and NASA have confirmed completion of the Orion crew capsule that will play a key role in Artemis 1, the uncrewed mission that will fly past the Moon while verifying Orion, the Space Launch […]