NASA Announces the 2025 Human Lander Challenge
One of NASA’s core mission objectives, though not explicitly stated in its charter, is to educate Americans about space exploration, especially students. As part of that mission, NASA hosts a…
NASA Decides to Play it Safe. Wilmore and Williams are Coming Home on a Crew Dragon in February
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain on board the International Space Station until February, returning to Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon. NASA announced its decision over the…
NASA Seeks Input for Astrobee Free-flying Space Robots
4 Min Read NASA Seeks Input for Astrobee Free-flying Space Robots iss069e010815 (May 16, 2023) — UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi observes a…
SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts will conduct high-flying research in Earth orbit
Polaris Dawn has lots of science on board. The SpaceX mission will fly high in Earth orbit to investigate how the human body changes under the extreme conditions of space.
NASA Develops Pod to Help Autonomous Aircraft Operators
The NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE) sensor pod is attached to the base of a NASA helicopter at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,…
JAXA Officially Wraps Up its SLIM Lander Mission
On January 20th, 2024, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) made a soft landing on the Moon, becoming the first…
U.S. military space domain awareness lags behind expectations
Experts say the military has to transition from basic cataloging of space objects to predictive tracking of orbital threats The post U.S. military space domain awareness lags behind expectations appeared…
Blue Origin’s next space tourism flight will launch on Aug. 29
Blue Origin is targeting Thursday (Aug. 29) for the launch of its eighth suborbital crewed mission, a flight called NS-26.
La NASA decide traer de vuelta la nave Starliner a la Tierra sin tripulación
El administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, y altos directivos participan en una rueda de prensa en directo el sábado 24 de agosto de 2024, en el Centro Espacial Johnson…
Station Science Top News: August 23, 2024
Researchers successfully produced cellulose from bacteria cultured on the International Space Station for four weeks. The bacteria used in the experiment, K. hansenii, is known to produce the highest amount…