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NASA astronauts won’t say which one of them got sick after almost eight months in space (Image Credit: Phys.org) The SpaceX crew of the Dragon spacecraft, from left, cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, pilot Michael Barratt, commander Matthew Dominick and mission specialist Jeanette Epps gather for a photo after arriving at the Kennedy Space […]
An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd ‘imminent impactor’ of 2024 (Image Credit: Space.com) Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth’s atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However, on the bright side, […]
China planning to build its own version of SpaceX’s Starship (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX continues to be a font of inspiration for Chinese aerospace engineers. At least one Chinese company is already working to create its own version of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9, which has launched more than 100 orbital missions this […]
4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened (Image Credit: Space.com) What does the discovery of a binary pulsar in 1974, the discovery of the first exoplanets, and the most powerful message humans have ever sent out into space all have in common? They all happened at […]
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet sets new speed record during 7th test flight (Image Credit: Space.com) Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft set a new speed record during its latest test flight. The Colorado company is working through a flight test program of the XB-1 supersonic demonstrator aircraft, which completed its most recent test flight […]
NASA still mum about SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut’s medical issue (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA is not yet ready to tell us why one of its astronauts was hospitalized shortly after returning to Earth last month. That astronaut was one of the four members of SpaceX‘s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Conducts First ISS Boost Test, Pushing NASA Closer to Final Deorbit Mission (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) At 12:50 p.m. ET today (November 8), NASA and SpaceX monitored the Dragon spacecraft as it successfully demonstrated its ability to reboost the International Space Station, according to an agency press release. Dragon, using its […]
NASA Remains Stubbornly Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) A press conference held earlier today was an opportunity for NASA to explain why four Crew-8 astronauts were sent to a hospital after splashing down on Earth on October 25, but the agency and its astronauts […]
Image: Astronaut captures photo of Earth from the International Space Station (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: NASA/Don Pettit Earth’s city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow of Earth’s atmosphere is also visible on the horizon. Since the station became […]
Proba-3 will constantly measure Sun’s energy output (Image Credit: Phys.org) Proba-3 orbit. Credit: European Space Agency Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft observe the sun’s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing Occulter spacecraft must block out the […]
