Today was the day we kissed our childhood dreams goodbye and witnessed the launch of NASA's last space shuttle. But we have the balm to soothe the bitter shuttle sadness. Transfer your love for the button-nosed white whale of the skies to our selection of space-flavoured opportunities, some...
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...
Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator: It’s great to be here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where since September 25, when the OSIRIS-REx samples arrived, we have been systematically and methodically getting into the science canister and ultimately to the sample collectio...
Evolving technology can help to shorten the flight. NASA'sSpace Launch System(SLS) will be the new workhorse for carrying upcoming missions, and potentially humans, to the red planet. SLS is currently being constructed and tested, with NASA now targeting a launch in March or April 2022 for i...
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...
during its highly elliptical orbit aroundthe sunevery 33 years. The Leonids are considered some of the fastest meteors, zipping through the sky at 44 miles (71 kilometers) per second,according to NASA. They can also result in impressive fireballs producing long, bright and colorful meteor ...
Some 49 years later, we are approaching the launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission. Artemis is the latest in a long series of projectsover many decadesto attempt a human return to the Moon. It’s by far the closest one to being realized, with the earliest launch attempts currently sc...
Karim has a Master of science Degree from E.N.S.A.E (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering) in Toulouse, France and worked as Aerospace Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, before moving on to finance in 1993. Tony Bremness is the Founding Partner and CIO of...
How to watch NASA’s first press conference on SpaceX Crew-9 return How to watch the homecoming of NASA’s two ‘stuck’ astronauts SpaceX just launched two major NASA missions at once — watch the highlights The space station is too darn clean, research suggests ...
“But with no foreign contracts, our country was too small to support such an advanced technology. We were shooting for the stars, which is ironic because a lot of Avro engineers later went down to NASA and helped with the Apollo program.” ...