including losing much of its attitude gas in attempts to lock on to Canopus. NASA continually had to make changes to Mariner 10's mission to get the most science out of the spacecraft's passes by the closest planet. But it showed us quite a bit despite its problems. ...
The craft has an unusual design, comprising a "stacked aircraft" carrying two orbiters—one European, the other Japanese—which will separate on arrival to go into different, but complementary orbits around Mercury. BepiColombo aims to "follow up on many of the intriguing results of NASA's Mess...
Although this is the first European mission to explore Mercury, NASA has already sent three spacecraft to the planet. The first American mission was launched in the 1970s, a "flyby" project that sent probes to Mercury for around an hour at a time. "Most of our knowledge of Mercury comes...
Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaSecrecy regarding UFOs during our early space programs takes center stage in this film. Researchers present the facts with expansive UFO evidence presented on each space mission from X-15, Project Mercury to the final Gemini Missions. ...
13 to send the Psyche spacecraft on an unprecedented mission to explore a planetary body made mostly of metal. NASA and other space agencies have robotically explored rock, ice and gas worlds, from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. Now, the Psyche spacecraft, built by Maxar in partnership with ...
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the deconstruction of NASA's first Mission Control building, the Mercury Control Center (MCC) began April 28, 2010. The original structure, erected between 1956 and 1958, was last modified in 1963. According to NASA, the MCC succumbed "to the...
The first NASA astronauts to launch from the United States in almost a decade will also be the first American crew in 55 years to lift off wearing spacesuits that lack a mission patch. It is not that they do not have a design; in fact, the DM-2 crew has
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the Sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is planned for launch no later than 2018. The small, car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the Sun's atmosphere approximately 6.4 million km...
Mariner 10 was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to study Mercury and Venus. It was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner program and the first spacecraft to visit Mercury. The mission was managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Cal...
NASA announced, Tuesday, that InSight lander's domed wind and thermal shield picked up a gentle rumble, believed to be the first marsquake ever detected. NASA's InSight Mars lander has reached a major milestone in its mission. It recorded a likely tremor on the Red Planet for the first ti...