NASA has announced its longer term plans for the next generation of SpaceX craft. The company is in the process of developing a human lander for the moon, which NASA intends to use along with a lander from Blue Origin to potentially carry astronauts to the lunar surface as part of the Ar...
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas push a tool cart loaded with lunar tools through the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, Arizona, as they practice moonwalking operations for Artemis III. NASA/Josh Valcarcel Being an astronaut may sound glamorous, but it isn’t all rocke...
Orion is launching soon on its first flight, the pathfinding Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission and sets NASA on the path to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. Watch this cool NASA animation beautifully detailing every key step of Orion's First Launch! Orion is designed to take hu...
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This allowed astronauts to manufacture and create spare parts, tools and other items that are necessary for the maintenance and function of the space station. This research and development allows for missions to be extended for longer as they won't be forced to return to Earth (a 250-mile tr...
“She said, ‘I can’t wear that — that’s for a boy,’” Adams recalls. “I was absolutely floored. If that child, growing up attached to my hip, had absorbed that narrative that astronauts weren’t women, wow. Somehow the girls really are not getting the picture that they have ...
Last year, researchers found that six percent of massive white dwarfs cool even more slowly than the average. In their paper, they found that these white dwarfs have a cooling delay of around 8 billion years compared to other white dwarfs. To explain this, they suggested that when neon-22,...
NASA agrees: the agency has repeatedly used Iceland as a stand-in for the Moon, and it’s doing so again as it prepares astronauts for new missions off-world. “Iceland is an amazing analog for both the Moon and Mars,” says NASA’s Kelsey Young, who researches the exploration of plane...
Making space more accessible is also enticing for kids who dream of being an astronaut or engineer working at NASA, says Melvin. For Melvin, who is one ofonly 14 Black NASA astronauts to ever go to space, becoming an astronaut was not a childhood dream because he “didn’t see someone ...
I hope you enjoy the day–Spring has arrived and the International Day of Astronauts along with it. Leave a Comment Posted in Uncategorized Posted by: drgeophysics | July 22, 2016 Temblor, like it or not, it is a thing. The word temblor associated with reporting of earthquakes seems to...