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A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish (Image Credit: Space.com) There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs along with three-quarters of Earth’s plant and animal species around 66 million years ago. Now, […]
NASA’s solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom in Earth orbit (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects of solar sailing, a next-gen propulsion strategy NASA thinks could greatly […]
NASA Astronaut Hospitalized Immediately After Returning to Earth (Image Credit: futurism-com) Mysterious Circumstances After landing back on Earth, a NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an unidentified health issue — and there’s still a lot we don’t know about the situation. In an update, NASA said that all four members of SpaceX’s Crew-8 […]
NASA’s retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space, on Thursday (Oct. 24). The two-armed, two-legged robotic testbed launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Discovery’s final mission in 2011. […]
SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut hospitalized in Pensacola after Dragon splashdown, in ‘stable condition’ (Image Credit: Space.com) The astronauts of Crew-8 were taken to a Florida hospital as a precaution, shortly after their successful splashdown on Friday (Oct. 25), NASA said. The SpaceX Crew-8 group of four astronauts was evaluated at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, a hospital […]
China launches new set of classified Yaogan spy satellites (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] China has added a new batch of three spacecraft to a classified series of orbiting Yaogan satellites. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 9:09 p.m. EDT on Oct. 22 (0109 GMT and 9:09 […]
Here’s what China launched to orbit on its retrievable satellite last month (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] China has revealed the payloads it sent to space recently on the two-week-long Shijian-19 retrievable satellite mission.Shijian-19 launched on a Long March 2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Sept. 27 and landed Oct. 11 at […]
Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] Four space station crewmates are safely back on Earth after an extended mission and a long wait for the weather to cooperate. SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps all with NASA and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander […]
Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching space tourists in 2027 (Image Credit: Space.com) The Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace is getting into the space tourism business. Deep Blue, which is based in the eastern province of Jiangsu, announced on Wednesday (Oct. 23) that it plans to start launching paying customers to suborbital […]
Blue Origin conducts first flight of second human-rated New Shepard (Image Credit: Space News) WASHINGTON — Blue Origin carried out the first flight of a new model of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Oct. 23, a mission the company called “nominal and on target” despite going to a slightly lower altitude than past flights. The […]
