There have been billions of people that have walked the face of the Earth throughout history, but only 12 of have ever walked on the surface of the Moon. For the select few that have ever walked on Earth’s natural satellite, one adjective gets repeated over and over — magnificent. “I’d sum it up with […]
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You Go Girl!: U.S. Astronaut to Set Women’s Record for Longest Time in Space…
A NASA astronaut will set the women’s record for the longest time spent in space with the announced extension of her current trip. NASA said astronaut Christina Koch will be on board a current flight, set to return in February, for about 11 months, according to The Associated Press. Koch launched last month knowing she […]
Melting Greenland Glacier Appears to Be Growing Again…
A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two […]
NASA Is About to Turn Off the Kepler Spacecraft, and it Will Drift Away…
After more than nine years in operation, the Kepler Space Telescope has run out of hydrazine fuel. Mission managers will now send a command to the spacecraft, which is presently trailing Earth in a heliocentric orbit about 150 million kilometers away, to turn off the spacecraft’s transmitters. It will be cast adrift into the silent […]
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Just Visited the Farthest Object Ever Explored…
As Earthlings marked the start of a new year, one of the most distant spacecraft successfully explored the farthest — 4 billion miles from Earth — and most primitive objects that humans have ever seen. NASA received confirmation Tuesday that its New Horizons probe survived its 12:33 a.m. eastern encounter with Ultima Thule, a rocky […]
NASA Spacecraft Lands on Red Planet After Six-Month Journey…
A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300 million-mile journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere. After waiting in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation to arrive from space, flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, leaped out […]
Soyuz Rocket Failure: Booster Separation Was to Blame for Botched Launch…
Russia says that a problem with the separation of first and second stage booster rockets was to blame for Thursday’s failed Soyuz launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin made a dramatic escape shortly after Thursday’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Sergei Krikalyov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos’ […]