NASA has been planning to launch its Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission, in which a spacecraft containing two orbiters will study the planet's real-time response tospace weather. It was due to launch atopBlue Origin'sNew Glennrocket in October 2024 ...
DARPApartneredwith NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate on the DRACO project, as both agencies will benefit from this leading edge technology. “This is a prime technology that can be used to transport humans and materials to the Moon,” said Kirk Shireman, vice presid...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft–the crew module and European-built service module—is being lifted, Dec. 1, 2019, into a thermal cage and readied for its move into the vacuum chamber at NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio.NASA Going to Mars and back will log more than a bi...
“Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving compared to the previous plan,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “These samples have the potential to change the way we understand Mars, our ...
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NASA, as usual, was keen to share what they were working on with the wider public. The PRE was no exception. In a 1979 booklet titled "NASA Facts," they spoke with confidence about the upcoming Space Shuttle program, and how it "... will turn formidable and costly space missions into...
Meanwhile, NASA is working on returning its astronauts to lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program. If all goes according to plan, that will happen with the Artemis 3 mission in late 2026. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions,...
The EMIT instrument was developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California. Launched to the International Space Station in July 2022, EMIT is on an extended three-year mission in which it’s supporting a range of research...
Starliner will perform its orbital insertion burn to begin its daylong trip to the space station. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock to the space station at 1:37 p.m. Wednesday, August 4. Launch and docking coverage will air live on NASA Television, theNASA app, and the ag...
This doughnut, or torus blocks all the optical light produced near the black hole, so astronomers refer to this type of source as a hidden or buried black hole. The optical light seen in the image is from the stars in the galaxy,” NASA explains in its release with the image....