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Video: Sleek SpaceX suit to make its runway debut on Polaris Dawn mission
May 06, 2024Bridging fashion and functionality, SpaceX has revealed what its astronauts will be wearing on the first-ever private spacewalk in 2024. In a new video, the company details the features of the suit that will be space-tested on the Polaris Dawn mission. -
Video: Ill-fated Boeing Starliner launch scrubbed due to faulty valve
May 06, 2024Boeing's attempt to put two astronauts into orbit has been scrapped. At 8:33 pm EDT, the launch of the Starliner spacecraft was called off due to engineering problems with the oxygen release valve of the Centaur second stage of the Atlas V rocket. -
Deep-space lasers smash data speed records over interplanetary distances
May 06, 2024NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, farther away than the Sun, has sent data through a laser over a record-breaking distance, and done so even faster than expected. The breakthrough could help establish high-speed communications with human colonies on Mars. -
How to watch today's Boeing Starliner launch
May 02, 2024Boeing's controversial Starliner crewed spacecraft is due to lift off on Monday, May 6 from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:34 EDT. Here's how you can watch all the drama unfold live. -
Boeing's crewed Starliner launches Monday. Here's why it's a big deal
April 29, 2024The embattled Boeing spacecraft Starliner is scheduled to launch next week, after more than a decade of delays and development. Given the history of the craft and the company's recent scandals, it's a nail-biter – so let's recap CST-100 Starliner. -
Nearby asteroid's birthplace traced to specific crater on the Moon
April 26, 2024Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, scientists now claim to have traced the origins of an asteroid back to the specific crater it was birthed from. -
NASA just hacked a 1977 computer on a spacecraft way out past Pluto
April 23, 2024We have to cut the 47-year-old space veteran some slack – it's faring much better than our 2019 laptops – but Voyager 1's five months of communicating nonsense to Earth may be over, thanks to Mission Control's 15-billion-mile remote IT fix. -
World's most advanced solar sail rockets into space
April 23, 2024The world's most advanced solar sail spacecraft began its epic odyssey as it lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron launcher from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. It was one of two payloads on the Beginning Of The Swarm mission. -
Dragonfly rotorcraft given green light for mission to Titan
April 17, 2024NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns. -
Space junk that tore through Florida home was from ISS, confirms NASA
April 16, 2024NASA has completed the analysis of a chunk of metal that crashed into the roof of a house in Naples, Florida, a few weeks ago. The agency says it came from a pallet of trash released from the International Space Station three years ago. -
NASA's electrodynamic dust shield will repel clingy, abrasive Moon grit
April 15, 2024Future Moon bases may be a bit tidier thanks to an electric shield that protects equipment from destructive lunar dust. NASA's Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) technology promises to tame the destructive dust that clings to equipment. -
Japan to build NASA a pressurized Moon campervan for 30-day trips
April 14, 2024When NASA returns to the Moon, its astronauts will enjoy tooling around in a pressurized camper van courtesy of JAXA and Toyota. The two-person vehicle is part of a US/Japan agreement that includes putting the first Japanese astronauts on the Moon. -
Advanced solar sail mission prepares to catch the wind in the void of space
April 12, 2024NASA is gearing up to launch an advanced solar sail spacecraft later this month. Using a new boom made of lightweight polymer composites, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is scheduled to lift off on April 24. -
Musk plans 1,000-ship fleets to colonize Mars
April 11, 2024Elon Musk has given an update on Mars colonization plans, noting how the advances in SpaceX's Starship combined with plummeting launch costs could one day see thousands of ships heading for the Red Planet to support a colony of a million people. -
Faulty chip may be clue to Voyager 1 computer fix
April 09, 2024NASA engineers have narrowed down the problem with the Voyager 1 deep space probe to a single faulty chip. It may now be possible to work around the corrupted memory and return the 47-year old interstellar spacecraft to an operational condition.
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