NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 14: Deep Space Testing Continues
Artemis I launched on November 16, with the powerful Space Launch System rocket carrying Orion lifting off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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NASA Assesses Launch Pad for Damage After Launch of the World’s Most Powerful Rocket
Following the successful Artemis I liftoff of the world’s most powerful rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams carefully assessed the mobile launcher…
History-Making Event: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance – 268,563 Miles From Earth
NASA Artemis I — Flight Day 13: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance Just after 3 p.m. CST on Monday, November 28, NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft…
Astronauts on Space Station Open Dragon and Unpack New Bone, Skin Healing Experiments
Launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on November 26, the Dragon resupply ship is now docked to the International Space Station (ISS) and open…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 12: Orion Tests Star Trackers and Reaction Control Thrusters
As Orion continued along a distant retrograde orbit of the Moon on the 12th day of the Artemis I mission, team members conducted another planned…
SpaceX Cargo Dragon Docks to Space Station With Solar Arrays and Science Experiments
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 7:39 a.m. EST this morning, while…
See the Far Side of the Moon: Incredibly Detailed Pictures From Artemis I Orion Close Lunar Flyby
The Earth is seen setting from the far side of the Moon just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this video taken on the sixth day…
Liftoff! SpaceX Falcon 9 Soars Into the Sky With Space Station Supplies
T-0, ignition, and liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at 2:20 p.m. EST, setting off on the company’s 26th mission to…
NASA Artemis I – Orion Spacecraft Surpasses Apollo 13 Record Distance From Earth
On day 11 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continues its journey beyond the Moon after entering a distant retrograde orbit on Friday, November 25,…
Black Holes More Powerful Than Thought – Magnetic Fields Reach Deeper Into Galaxies
Magnetic Fields Help Black Holes Reach Deeper Into Galaxies Black holes potentially have an even larger influence on the galaxies around them than we thought….
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 10: Orion Spacecraft Enters Distant Retrograde Orbit
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Flight Controllers in the White Flight Control Room successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant…
Today’s Spacewalk Thwarted by Spacesuit Problem
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were scheduled to conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today. However, an issue with the…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes First Flight With New Navigation Software
Compared to some of the other flights this past year, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Flight 34 might not stand out. Wednesday’s successful 18-second flight was even…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day Nine: Orion Spacecraft One Day Away from Distant Retrograde Insertion
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is now about one day away from entering into a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The orbit is “distant” in the…
NASA Artemis I – Flight Day Eight: Orion Spacecraft Exits Lunar Sphere Of Influence
On the eighth day of the Artemis I mission, NASA’s Orion spacecraft continues to travel farther away from the Moon as it prepares to enter…
Space Station Crew Goes Into Thanksgiving With Spacewalk and SpaceX Dragon Preps
On Thanksgiving day, four Expedition 68 astronauts will relax as three cosmonauts continue preparing for a spacewalk on Friday. The residents onboard the International Space…
Astrophysicists Solve 40-Year-Old Black Hole Jet Mystery With NASA’s IXPE
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the cosmos. They are composed of a supermassive black hole feeding off material swirling around it in…
Artemis I Mission: Unexpected Loss of Communication With Orion Spacecraft
Today, NASA’s Mission Control Center at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston unexpectedly lost data to and from the Orion spacecraft at 12:09 a.m….
