Long March-5 Y7 rocket carrying a communications technology experimental satellite launched from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern China’s Hainan Province, February 23, 2024. Credit – Xinhua News Agency via Getty; 2024 Xinhua News Agency R.There are approximately 6,800 miles between humanity’s past and future on the lunar surface. This is the approximate distance between… Read More »
Andreas Mogensen He was impressed with how smooth the landing was. The first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut (and the first non-American) to pilot a U.S. commercial crewed spacecraft, Mogensen and the SpaceX Crew-7 crew returned to Earth after a 197-day stay aboard the International Space Station. (ISS) on March 12. Speaking at his crew’s… Read More »
NASA Allegation: A NASA astronaut once surprised his teammates by wearing a gorilla costume on the International Space Station. Evaluation: Rating: True Context: Former astronaut twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly staged a gorilla costume show on the International Space Station that crew members knew about in advance. However, contrary to some social posts, the… Read More »
Two days later rare last second startup abortA Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched Saturday to fly to the International Space Station, carrying two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut who will be on a six-month tour of duty. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson roared away… Read More »
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each have big plans for the moon and beyond through their respective companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin.NASA/JPL/USGS; Lisa O’Connor/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images; Business Content Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and their space businesses are racing to the moon. Several agreements have set norms for space exploration among countries, but… Read More »
Orbital Reef is one of several space stations that NASA hopes to replace the ISS after retirement.Blue Origin NASA awarded $172 million to Blue Origin to develop a space station for both astronauts and tourists. The space station, called Orbital Reef, will need to be able to support human life. Recently, Blue Origin passed four… Read More »
Annoyed Jack Hathaway He had one last hurdle to overcome before becoming a NASA astronaut candidate: finding time to hear the news. Hathaway was expecting a call from NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, then chief of the astronaut office, in 2021 to see if she, too, could join the agency. But Hathaway was aboard the carrier… Read More »
After a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, a three-person female crew returned to Earth early Tuesday, hurtling like a blazing meteor through America’s heartland as their Crew Dragon capsule touched down in the Gulf of Mexico. vault. Suspended under four large parachutes, Crew Dragon “Endurance” touched down at a jogging pace south of… Read More »
A SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship carrying four long-term crew members departed the International Space Station on Monday, setting the stage for reentry and landing early Tuesday to complete a 199-day mission. NASA commander Jasmine MoghbeliEuropean Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensenjapanese pilot Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov The two spacecraft departed the upper… Read More »