CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is grappling with how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station after Boeing repeatedly delayed their return to its troubled capsule. Will they take a chance and send them home soon with Boeing’s Starliner? Or will they wait and bring them back next year… Read More »
While NASA discusses Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft safety After multiple helium leaks and thruster problems, the agency is getting “more serious” about a backup plan to bring the ship’s two crew members back on board Return to Earth Officials said they were inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon on Wednesday. In this case – and no final… Read More »
NASA is considering keeping the two astronauts who carried the Boeing capsule to the International Space Station there until February because of problems the spacecraft experienced during flight. The agency said Wednesday that it was still evaluating options for returning NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams safely to Earth and that no plans had… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Main) Earth’s faithful lunar companion, the Moon (inset) An illustration of the composition of the “wonder material” graphene. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA Scientists have discovered naturally occurring graphene flakes in lunar soil samples, and the discovery… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Two U.S. cents seen being packed for flight are now the last cents sent into space on NASA missions. | Source: NASA/collectSPACE.com It’s been said that a penny doesn’t go a long way these days, and NASA has now… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. The new Lego Technic NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle-LRV set creates a detailed replica of the historic moon buggy. | Source: collectSPACE.com There’s a moment when building Lego’s latest NASA-inspired set when the assembly transforms from a random collection… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A flywheel design for the Artemis 2 mission is tested during the microgravity phase of a Falcon 20 parabolic flight near Montreal, Canada. The person operating the device is Yannick Laflamme, a Canadian Space Agency exercise specialist at the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows an asteroid breaking up into meteoroid fragments near the moon. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA It’s easy to imagine the Moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting Earth. But despite lacking breathable air,… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Canadarm2 releases the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft from the International Space Station. | Source: NASA The Canadian robotic arm on the International Space Station is days away from reaching a major milestone. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced today… Read More »
NASA management is engaged in deep discussions this week about whether the agency should send its astronauts back to Boeing’s crippled Starliner capsule or use a SpaceX spacecraft to rescue the crew. The agency’s concern about the Starliner, which carried NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station in early June,… Read More »