Patrick Mullane – author of "The Father, Son, and Holy Shuttle: Growing Up an Astronaut's Kid in the Glorious 80s" – emphasizes that becoming an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is so difficult that no one should count on being...
Although NASA is most often associated with sending missions out to observe space, the agency also has a large number of space missions that turn the other way toobserve Earth. The newest mission to observe Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and to provide insight into how these interact with th...
(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) So if you were theoretically able to hitch a ride on the Parker Solar Probe and take it on a detour from its sun-focused mission to travel in a straight line from Earth to Mars, traveling at the speeds the probe reaches during its ...
On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately owned aircraft to enter space. Test pilot Michael Melvill took SpaceShipOne to the altitude of 62.5 miles (100 km) above the Earth's surface. Flying to this altitude officially makes Melvill an astronaut. SpaceShipOne and White Knight too...
While NASA has sent two probes out past our heliosphere—Voyager 1 and 2—there’s still a lot we don’t know about the protective shield around the Solar System. A proposed Interstellar Probe Mission could send a spacecraft to investigate these long-standing mysteries, and a new study ana...
How to watch SpaceX’s Crew-9 launch to the ISS on Saturday [UPDATE: SpaceX has called off Thursday's launch attempt due to an approaching storm. It's now targeting 1:17 p.m. ET on Saturday, September 28.] SpaceX and NASA are gearing up for the Crew-9 launch that will carry an...
Air Force portion of the military space plane in 1998, NASA has continued development of the space plane for non-military reasons. If the Air Force were to rejoin the development of the space plane at a later date, it could use the vehicle to control space both offensively and defensively....
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Photo courtesy NASA The main engines provide the remainder of the thrust (29 percent) to lift the shuttle off the pad and into orbit. The engines burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which are stored in the external fuel tank (ET), at a ratio of 6:1. They draw liquid hydrogen and...
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