Origins: 65 years of NASA – an astrophysicist reflects on the agency’s legacy
Astrophysicist STEPHEN G ALEXANDER pays tribute, in an article first published on The Conversation, to NASA’s 65 year legacy…
NASA sees moon lunar mining trial within the next decade
Brisbane, Australia Reuters NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already taken steps toward excavating moon soil in 2032, a scientist said on Wednesday. The US space agency plans to return Americans to the moon as […]
NASA UFO panel in first public meeting says better data needed
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Washington DC, USReuters The first public meeting of a NASA panel studying what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly known as UFOs, kicked off on Wednesday to discuss findings since its formation last year. The 16-member body, assembling experts from fields ranging from physics to astrobiology, was formed last June to examine […]
NASA names woman, Black astronauts to Artemis II crew in lunar first
Los Angeles, USReuters NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly on what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years. Christina Koch, 44, an engineer […]
SpaceX capsule delivers latest four-member crew to International Space Station
Reuters A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived safely at the International Space Station after a brief delay early on Friday, carrying two US astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut on a six-month science mission. The autonomously flying spacecraft dubbed Endeavour docked with the space station shortly after 1:40am EST on Friday, […]
Essay: New results from NASA’s DART planetary defence mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids
ELEANOR K SANSOM, of Curtin University in Australia, looks at what the results of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have revealed…
SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously […]
Russia to rescue ISS crew on backup rocket after capsule leak
Reuters Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a US astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month. The leak came from a tiny puncture – less than one millimetre wide – […]
NASA formally retires Mars InSight lander after four-year mission
Los Angeles, USReuters NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles […]
Micrometeoroid strike could be cause of Russian spacecraft leak – official
Reuters A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike, a senior Russian space official said Thursday. NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said no astronauts were endangered by the leak, which […]