Firefly’s Blue Ghost Nears Lunar Touchdown With 10 Game-Changing NASA Instruments
NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith ...
The many firsts of the near-Mir mission
The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...
Space shuttle Discovery successfully launches Sunday in dusk light show
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...
TECHNOBABBLE: Do we really need to leave Earth?
Just over 110 years ago, the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time. Just over 45 years ago, people walked on the moon. It took just over 60 years for us to go from the first powered ...
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...
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The Insane Engineering of the Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...
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Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander ...
NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and China, Is the U.S. Falling Behind?
Rumors of a space nuke made geopolitical tensions extend into orbit. Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and ...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mimics the moon's gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos' rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home.