A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom launches the Crew-4 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2022. Aubrey Gemignani |...
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Private Astronauts Splash Down After Space Station Visit
Topline The first all-private astronaut crew to visit the International Space Station (ISS) splashed down at 1:06 p.m. ET Monday, concluding a 17-day excursion marking NASA’s first collaboration with ...
Do You Know Your Carbon Dioxide Birth Number?
I was talking with a group of students recently and asked what their carbon dioxide birth number was. In this article, I am posing the same question to you. The question was actually inspired by Toby ...
A Houston Hypersonic Transport Startup Promises Passenger Flights From L.A. To Tokyo In An Hour
An aeroplane flying high across a blue sky producing a striking contrail cloud behind it over … [+] Folkestone, United Kingdom. photo by Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images) In Pictu...
NASA Again Interrupts Crucial Test Of 5-Million-Pound ‘Mega Moon Rocket’ Artemis I
Topline Monday, NASA interrupted a critical “wet dress rehearsal” of Artemis I, the 5.75-million-pound “mega Moon rocket” whose launch preparations have been beset by miscellaneous technical difficult...
MIT Students Building Tiny Self-Assembling Robots For Space
If a few MIT grad students get their way, programmable matter is the future. Think thousands or hundreds of thousands of nanobots assembling and disassembling on command to form the most efficient sha...
NASA and space partnerships with Russia face Ukraine challenge
ISS Expedition 64 crew member, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov takes part in a training session at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Zvyozdny Gorodok [Star City], Moscow Region. Anton No...
Astra stock drops 26% after NASA mission fails mid-launch
Shares of rocket builder Astra fell sharply Thursday, after the company’s latest mission failed to reach orbit. Astra’s stock fell 26% to close at $3.91 a share. The company confirmed ther...
Watch rocket builder Astra launch first Florida mission for NASA
[The company’s webcast began at 12:00 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] Small rocket builder Astra is attempting to launch its first mission from Florid...
NASA will not approve any merchandising proposals that incorporate NFTs to the moon
Despite a consensus among degen apes that NFTs are on their way to the moon, NASA has declared that it would not provide permission for the use of its material and logo for takeoff. NASA declared in r...
NASA’S $10 Billon Webb Telescope Arrives
Topline The James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its final destination Monday afternoon – after traveling 1 million miles through outer space – where it will collect data and capture images of the ea...