https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107910/12/1079101273_0:-1:1920:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_2856336df6a6e0aa28d5bc50ef43ab32.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010171080803468-asteroid-the-size-of-big-ben-approaching-earth-says-nasa/ At the end of the 20th century NASA launched the Near-Earth Object Programme, aimed at finding and tracking the movement of celestial objects whose orbits could bring them into close proximity to our planet. The space agency so far has found an estimated 25,000 NEOs to date. Ladies and Gentlemen, don’t get too comfortable, because 2020 isn’t […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/business/202010161080796517-intuitive-machines-company-wins-order-to-search-for-ice-at-moons-south-pole-nasa-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A Texas high tech company has won a $47-million contract to search for frozen water resources at the South Pole of the Moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a press release. “NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the […]
After taking precautions against a fifth approaching hurricane, the Space Launch System (SLS) Green Run test team is back on site in the B-2 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to continue preparations for the final two critical tests of the year-long campaign on the first Core Stage. Prime contractor Boeing is conducting Stage Green Run test operations, completing the sixth of eight test […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0d/1080761974_0:231:3072:1959_1200x675_80_0_0_03b7bdb1555f0f1cfa785f7f0a490e25.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202010131080761876-us-remains-hopeful-russia-will-join-artemis-space-coalition-to-moon-nasa-administrator-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States remains hopeful that Russia will join its Artemis program to return humans to the surface of the Moon by 2024, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a virtual press conference on Tuesday. Seven states participating in US lunar exploration efforts have joined the United States in signing the “Artemis […]
After a lengthy ten-month lull in flights following the previous test of Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard launch system, the company is ready to return to action with another test launch and landing of the fully reusable booster and capsule duo. Following a weather-related and technical issue during a window late in September, the flight is scheduled to take place from the company’s West Texas facility […]
NASA is warning of yet another five asteroids headed our way in the first half of this week, as the agency’s leading asteroid expert claims to have solved the mystery of the ‘minimoon’ set to enter earth’s orbit. Amid a flurry of asteroidal activity as we enter the final few months of 2020, NASA’s asteroid hunters have flagged five more space rocks en route ranging in […]
The Sun is both creator and destroyer. The one that can foster life one second and eliminate it the next. Most people are familiar with the harmful and hazardous effects the Sun can have to life on Earth if solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, and their associated radiation, are delivered in just the right way and at high enough intensities. But those same sets of […]
The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) expressed its concern about the integrated computer testing capabilities across the three separate programs under the Exploration Systems Development (ESD) division of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. The Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), Orion, and Space Launch System (SLS) programs under ESD are working together to accomplish upcoming Artemis lunar missions, but have been independently funded and managed throughout […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105433/39/1054333950_0:254:4928:3026_1200x675_80_0_0_59a6fcc7d7c1cdb93db8608da5200675.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202009301080616088-nasa-launches-cygnus-cargo-spacecraft-to-iss/ A private cargo spacecraft is set to lift off from Virginia on Tuesday carrying fresh supplies to the International Space Station. The mission is known as Cygnus NG-14, this is the 14th flight for Northrop Grumman’s robotic Cygnus spacecraft. The mission should deliver 7,624 lbs (3,458 kilograms) of cargo to the ISS. Cygnus launches atop an Antares rocket. Source […]
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen during Soyuz qualification exams on Wednesday at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow. Rubins plans to cast her next vote from space – more than 200 miles above Earth.× Andrey Shelepin/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrey Shelepin/AP NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen during Soyuz qualification exams on Wednesday at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow. […]
After a lengthy nine-month lull in flights following the previous test of Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard launch system, the company is ready to return to action with another test launch and landing of the fully reusable booster and capsule duo. The flight is currently scheduled to take place from Blue Origin’s West Texas facility — near Van Horn, Texas — on Thursday morning at 10:00 […]
Launched in 2016, The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently mapping the surface of Bennu, the so-called ‘doomsday asteroid’, formed from fragments of an ancient planetoid destroyed during the formation of the solar system. NASA has announced the striking discovery of fragments of the solar system’s second-largest asteroid on the surface of another asteroid. On Monday, the US space agency published images captured in 2019 by the OSIRIS-REx […]
Student teams from around the country have partnered with NASA to test prototype tools for upcoming Artemis missions. This week, students remotely directed divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab to test their designs, which addressed a variety of NASA’s needs through the Micro-g NExT program. This year’s testing was impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic, delaying the test week from June to September. The student teams […]
A potential planet… where no planet should be. An international team of astronomers utilizing NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and data obtained from the now-retired Spitzer space telescope have reported an astounding potential discovery of a surviving planet closely orbiting a white dwarf. So what’s the big deal? Scientists have found many exoplanets in close orbits of their parent stars. Here’s the confusing part: The way […]
It might seem strange to some that Glen Zipper, the Oscar-winning documentarian who created Netflix’s adorable docu-series Dogs, chose to tackle the Challenger explosion as his second project for the streaming giant. But in an interview with The Daily Beast, he said both have been passion projects for him—even if their subjects are different as can be. Challenger: The Final Flight, which Zipper executive produced, debuts […]
WASHINGTON, September 15 (Sputnik) – The search for extraterrestrial life suddenly shifted away from longtime target Mars with word that Earth-bound scientists had discovered signs of a alien microbe high in the toxic atmosphere of Venus, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. “Life on Venus? The discovery of phosphine, a byproduct of anaerobic biology, is the most significant development yet in building the case for life off […]
Currently, NASA has a program to contract companies, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp and Lockheed Martin to fly science experiments and cargo to the moon ahead of a human landing. NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine, announced on Thursday that the company is looking for a private company to get to the Moon and obtain dust and rock samples from its surface as part of a […]
What is it about space? The black, starry void is a singularly vexing backdrop; it evokes endless possibility and terrifying nothingness all at once. We love to watch celebrities scream in space, contemplate fictional long-lost loved ones in space, and, of course, mull the very real existential doom that faces our planet in space. Enter Netflix’s Away—a gripping drama that embraces this galaxy of thematic potential […]
Northrop Grumman’s Propulsion Systems Division has completed the first of a series of Flight Support Booster (FSB) tests of the NASA Space Launch System’s solid rocket motors, a series that will last as long as the SLS program exists. The FSB-1 booster will help NASA and Northrop Grumman evaluate new materials for use in future boosters and new manufacturing processes as well as current manufacturing quality, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104933/22/1049332266_55:0:1255:675_1200x675_80_0_0_836df1024285b0535470adc2cc47aa98.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008311080331930-photo-nasa-begins-assembly-of-asteroid-exploring-lucy-spacecraft/ The US space agency NASA announced on Friday it had begun assembly of the Lucy spacecraft, which will visit the mysterious Trojan asteroids near Jupiter that are believed to harbor water. In a recent news release, NASA announced the Lucy mission had passed a key milestone, which marks the transition from development to assembly for the spaceship. “During this […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107869/93/1078699307_0:105:1201:780_1200x675_80_0_0_91ed5a2df4bcb5ae41f197d4c7d67957.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202008311080330811-lakes-help-protect-oceans-from-climate-change-by-holding-50-more-water-nasa-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Shrinking glaciers due to climate change have increased the volume of water stored in glacier-fed lakes by about half since 1990, buffering an anticipated rise in sea-levels from glacial melt, NASA reported in a press release on Monday. “In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have found that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107927/25/1079272579_0:-1:3640:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_f75025a179a1e0a7f79e73484e526e20.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008301080317060-asteroid-over-70-feet-in-diameter-to-fly-by-earth-on-tuesday-nasa-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – An asteroid that is between 22 and 49 meters (72 and 160 feet) in diameter will fly relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) informs. “Will #asteroid 2011 ES4 hit Earth? No! 2011 ES4’s close approach is ‘close’ on an astronomical scale but poses no danger of actually hitting […]
Scientists at England’s University of Warwick recently announced they had discovered 50 new exoplanets by using a machine learning program to sift through mountains of data collected by satellite observatories. According to a group of scientists at the University of Warwick and London’s Alan Turing Institute, artificial intelligence designed by them has found dozens of new exoplanets previously missed by human astronomers. Their results have recently […]
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A Texas A&M University professor and NASA researcher has been charged with conspiracy and accused of collaborating with several Chinese entities, while his grant explicitly prohibited him from doing so. Zhengdong Cheng, a professor in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M who also worked on projects for NASA, was arrested by the FBI over the weekend, the Department of Justice said Monday. Cheng has led […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A Texas A&M University professor working on projects for NASA has been arrested and will be charged for allegedly hiding his affiliations with Chinese state-owned academic and commercial institutions, the US Justice Department said in a statement on Monday. “Texas A&M University (TAMU) Professor Zhengdong Cheng is expected to make his initial appearance before US Magistrate Judge Sam Sheldon today at 2 p.m. […]
The Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter for NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 29 on the agency’s Pegasus barge at the end of a delivery trip from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The cone-shaped interstage connector was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building, where NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program and prime Test and […]
NASA is sounding the alarm over several incoming space rocks, one of which is due to pass within a third of the distance between the Earth and the moon. To kick things off amid yet another rocky month for Earth and its asteroid hunters, on Tuesday, asteroid 2009 PQ1, measuring 110 meters in diameter, will come within 4.1 million kilometers of Earth. This will be followed […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/04/1080059785_0:-1:2491:1401_1200x675_80_0_0_cb448931cf24de3ac1b791203c443da8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008041080059713-nasa-astronauts-hold-press-conference-after-space-x-crew-dragon-return/ The Space X Dragon capsule was launched on 30 May to the International Space Station and marked the first time astronauts were sent to space from US soil since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. On Tuesday, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley held a press conference on Tuesday in Houston after returning to the planet on board […]
The SpaceX capsule sits aboard a recovery ship in the Gulf of Mexico. NASA/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption NASA/Screenshot by NPR The SpaceX capsule sits aboard a recovery ship in the Gulf of Mexico. NASA/Screenshot by NPR Updated at 6:40 p.m. ET Two NASA astronauts are back on Earth after their space capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107218/32/1072183284_0:67:1280:787_1200x675_80_0_0_19408cb17f806568eac85df98ca4a69b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008021080039271-two-nasa-astronauts-return-to-earth-on-space-x-crew-dragon-video/ The mission marked the first time people were sent to space from the US soil since the Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011. Watch a live broadcast as two NASA astronauts are expected to return to the Earth aboard a Space X Crew Dragon capsule on Sunday. The splashdown is scheduled for 18:42 GMT. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug […]
NASA and SpaceX are ready for a Sunday, 2 August 2020 deorbit and splashdown of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour. The return to Earth will bring an end to the historic first private-company spaceflight of humans to Earth orbit and the commencement of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico is expected at 2:48 pm EDT […]
The call comes 11 days ahead of the space agency launching the Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover. With this mission, NASA wants to unravel some of the mysteries that have been surrounding the red planet for decades. US scientist Charity Phillips-Lander from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas wants NASA to explore lava tubes on Mars as the astrobiologist and her team suspect that […]
The first joint US-Soviet space mission took place in July 1975. It involved the docking of the American Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft. The event was a historical milestone and marked the beginning of international cooperation in space. NASA astronauts were shocked when they saw the toilet on the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz, two-time Hero of the USSR, pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov shared at a solemn event […]
It is the second planet from the Sun and is similar in size and structure to our planet. It even appeared at the same time as the Earth, however for reasons scientists can’t explain Venus went took a different direction and is a completely different world, where humans will be burnt and flattened like a pancake. NASA has spoken about the details of its VERITAS mission […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0b/1079856873_0:-1:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_9952ac0fedb04e9208339493dbb0bed2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007111079856861-amateur-astronomers-helped-nasa-scientists-discover-gigantic-brown-dwarfs/ NASA scientists assume that there is a hidden population of brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are too big to be called planets, but at the same time too small to be called stars, floating around our Solar system. To find them and other celestial bodies the agency has launched a project for scientists and members of the public […]
The deep-space robotic equipment dubbed “Psyche” is due to be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late summer 2022. It will whizz past Mars and then set about measuring a nearby asteroid’s features. NASA is preparing to finally send an overwhelmingly advanced space robot to a 140-mile wide asteroid believed to be worth more than our global economy in line with the space agency’s […]
A joint NASA and Boeing team has completed their “high visibility close call” review into anomalies experienced during the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission. Boeing is now in the process of implementing fixes and upgrades for the Starliner spacecraft in preparation for a second OFT, a crewed flight test (CFT), and operational crew transport missions. (Lead image via NASA) The first orbital spaceflight of Boeing’s Starliner […]
NASA’s asteroid watchers have given a heads-up about five asteroids headed toward Earth in the coming days, while the agency’s automated Sentry system has identified the space rock which has the highest chance of impact. Over this weekend, two asteroids – 2020 MU1 (120ft diameter or half the wingspan of a 747 jet) and 2020 ML (73ft diameter, roughly half the height of the Arc de […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/97/1079799772_0:0:3148:1771_1200x675_80_0_0_fb28235dfde4741797a7495284169a9d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202007051079799752-soviet-era-space-junk-forced-iss-orbit-lifting-nasa-says/ Throughout its use the ISS has undergone 25 manoeuvres (with the exception of the most recent) in order to prevent potentially damaging collisions with space junk floating in orbit. The International Space Station (ISS) has lifted its orbit by 900 metres in order to evade a piece of a booster stage from a Proton-K (western designation SL-12) […]
NASA has initialized plans via a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for 12 additional Solid Rocket Boosters, or SRBs, for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket — a pending contract with a potential value of $49.5 million USD. In the letter contract, the agency will “provide initial funding and authorization” to Northrop Grumman to begin ordering components, including long-lead items, for the 12 additional SRBs […]
Just one day after World Asteroid Day, NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has warned of two space rocks due to soar through the Earth’s backyard, as planetary defense preparations start to ramp up. The first of the incoming objects is the 69-foot wide 2019 AC3, an Apollo-class asteroid travelling at roughly 8,000 miles per hour and due to fly past at a safe distance […]
Astronomers say the new research, which was published on 24 June in the journal Nature, will allow them to study how planets interact with their stars as well as provide more understanding about how planets form and evolve. An international team of scientists have discovered an exoplanet that is 8 percent larger than Neptune, the fourth-largest planet in our Solar System. It is located in the […]
The agency will name its Washington, D.C., headquarters after the pioneering scientist whose Space Race-era contributions gained recognition in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. (Image credit: Robert Nye/NASA via AP) Source link
NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test flight to reduce overall mission risks to the subsequent Artemis 3 lunar landing from first-time operations. The Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) is working with its Artemis Programs to evaluate some of the trade-offs from a range of options for an early rendezvous test for the spacecraft on its […]
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a selection of photographs revealing the reverse view of the annual ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse and showing the resulting shadow passing over our planet. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy shared his astounding shots from space on Twitter on Sunday and commented that flying above the Earth was a “pretty neat way” to wake up on Father’s Day. […]
Researchers reviewing images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope recently came upon quite the stunning find when they uncovered a trove of images offering a detailed look at the splitting of two planetary nebulas. A planetary nebula is the result of a star shedding its outermost layers once it has run out of fuel to burn, often taking either a ring-shaped or bubble-like form after the […]
Water is central to the ongoing search for life and potentially habitable worlds within the Milky Way. According to NASA planetary scientist Lynnae Quick, there could well be far more such ‘waterworlds’ than we previously thought. Typically, when examining potential candidates for study, and potential colonization, astrophysicists and astrobiologists will seek out worlds located in the ‘Goldilocks’ zones of their stars – just right for liquid […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/77/1079647718_0:195:1921:1275_1200x675_80_0_0_6dad3c7dc98c6a2c754367c4356343b5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Oleg Burunov. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202006181079647968-nasa-reveals-what-could-be-source-of-elevated-benzene-level-on-iss/ The International Space Station is currently manned by Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, as well as American astronauts Christopher Cassidy, Douglas Hurley, and Robert Behnken. An increased level of toxic benzene inside the International Space Station (ISS) could be caused by the air filters installed in one of the American modules on board the space […]
Two intrepid spacecraft are dancing with the Sun and making great progress toward the goal of learning more about our star. After NASA announced that Parker Solar Probe (PSP) had sent the “Status A” beacon after its fifth close flyby of the Sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Solar Orbiter has completed its first Perihelion. PSP is the first spacecraft that can […]
Astrobotic of Pittsburgh, PA has been selected to deliver NASA’s future Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, to the Moon. The Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will provide NASA a “rapid acquisition” of commercial Lunar abilities, which will further the agency’s capability of science and commercial development of the moon. The first CLP contracts to commercial companies were announced by NASA in 2018. In 2019, five […]
Titan, which is the second-largest moon in the Solar system, is a unique celestial body. It is the only known moon in our Solar System to have a considerable amount of atmosphere and except for the Earth it is the only body that is known to have liquid rivers and seas on its surface. An international team of scientists says Titan is drifting away from Saturn […]
Health Editor’s Note: The George Floyd issues with all the news coverage and subsequent protests has taken prime light in the news world, even over developing events of this pandemic. During this time we had an important event take place, totally unrelated to COVID-19 and police brutality. Here is an informative look at the new way NASA will go into space….Carol Redefining How NASA Gets into […]
US 23:06 GMT 07.06.2020Get short URL The sudden resignation of the former associate administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Doug Loverro, which startled the space community, took place just a week before the historic Space X launch. A former high-ranking NASA official is being investigated over allegedly giving improper guidance to Boeing Co. in relation to an agency competition for one of NASA’s […]
The next Atlas V to launch a mission to Mars is at the launch site, as United Launch Alliance (ULA) moved through “Launch Vehicle on Stand (LVOS)” operations for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The preparations are being conducted at Space Launch Complex-41 or SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The pad flow has begun not long after the rocket had arrived in Florida. The […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into space as a Falcon rocket with two people aboard blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22pm local time. At 3:35pm the Crew Dragon capsule, carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, separated from its second stage booster and […]
The Dragon crew capsule sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday as distant storms roll by. NASA and SpaceX cannot launch unless the weather is perfect. Bill Ingalls/NASA hide caption toggle caption Bill Ingalls/NASA The Dragon crew capsule sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday as distant storms roll by. NASA and SpaceX cannot launch unless the weather is perfect. Bill Ingalls/NASA Updated at […]
Roshel Defence Solutions CEO Roman Shimonov talks about his company’s armored vehicles spotted at the NASA historic mission to International Space Station (ISS) and Roshel’s innovative approach to the industry Roshel Defence Solutions is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and it specializes in design and manufacturing of a wide range of armored vehicles equipped with intergraded security solutions and innovative defence technologies. Roshel is a privately-held […]
Tech 19:19 GMT 27.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107943/17/1079431738_0:0:2943:1657_1200x675_80_0_0_2f659099e43442a796f95f12b797a6ec.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202005271079431890-space-x-launches-first-crewed-mission-to-the-iss—video/ This is going to be the first launch of NASA astronauts from the US since the end of the space shuttle programme in 2011. Sputnik invites you to watch a live broadcast of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Crew Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley […]
As the transition from government-owned crew launch rockets to commercial providers arrives, NASA launch integration is in a very different position than it has been with other human spaceflight programs like Apollo and Shuttle. With all launches, hundreds of thousands of things have to align perfectly for a rocket to lift off. And many of those things aren’t on the rocket but are nonetheless vital, like […]
Today I received this lovely turd of disinfo from a helpful troll called Sheldon via email: by Dane Wigington, October 5th, 2016 The photo images shown below were captured from NASA satellite sources and they are truly alarming. These images provide shocking and undeniable proof of the ongoing global climate engineering/geoengineering/solar radiation management assault on our planet and its life support systems. Highly toxic heavy metals […]
On Wednesday (May 27), astronauts will take off from American soil for the first time since 2011, riding aboard a SpaceX capsule in a historic test flight to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts haven’t launched from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, relying instead on Russian rockets as commercial companies like SpaceX and Boeing developed their vehicles. NASA during […]
NASA has laid out plans for their future utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) over the next decade, including upgrades scheduled to be conducted on the outpost in the near term, its future use as an analog for human exploration missions beyond Earth Orbit, and the commercial expansion to the orbital outpost. During the NASA Advisory Council meeting, Kirk Shireman, NASA’s head of the ISS […]
Tech 21:49 GMT 17.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107886/42/1078864280_0:-1:1281:720_1200x675_80_0_0_a5fca16d17d2b4e1f9750c2d658a75d1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202005171079334808-nasa-reveals-principles-for-safe-and-peaceful-moon-exploration-/ Together with the European Space Agency and other partners, NASA plans to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024 as part of the Artemis program. Although the US space agency plays a leading role in the program, it expects its partners to develop it further, including by […]
US 22:08 GMT 13.05.2020(updated 22:09 GMT 13.05.2020) Get short URL The FBI has arrested a researcher for NASA who reportedly did not disclose his connections to the Chinese government and other Chinese entities. According to the US Justice Department (DoJ), Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a 63-year-old Arkansas professor, was arrested Friday and charged with wire fraud. “In the one-count complaint, Ang was charged with one count of […]
NASA has inked a deal with Russia’s space agency Roscosmos to allow a US astronaut to travel into space aboard a Soyuz rocket in the fall, even as SpaceX gears up for its first manned launch later this month. “A contract was signed today on providing a seat for a US astronaut onboard a Soyuz MS manned spaceship to be launched to the ISS in the […]