Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket soars into space on maiden flight Despite losing its booster during a landing attempt, the upper stage reached orbit as planned. Jan 16 2 privately built moon landers carried into space by SpaceX rocket ...
s space shuttle programmanager, said earlier this month that while extending shuttle flightsthrough 2015 may not delay plans for Ares I launches, it would likely delayAres V rocket development that would support new manned missions to the moon....
If no problems are found, the rocket will launch an uncrewed capsule to loop around the Moon in the coming months. And if that goes well, astronauts will then start flying on a succession of SLS vehicles. 如果没有发现问题,火箭将在未来几个月内发射一个无人太空舱,围绕月球飞行。如果进展顺利,...
The plan is for NASA and the European Space Agency to launch a dune buggy in 2026 to fetch the rock samples, along with a rocket ship that will put the specimens into orbit around Mars. Then another spacecraft will capture the orbiting samples and bring them home. ...
To gently land a rocket ship on the surface of Mars one must overcome the most ornery physics. When a spacecraft returns to Earth, the relatively thick atmosphere helps slow down that speeding bullet. But on Mars, the aerodynamics are not so friendly. The atmosphere is much thinner, with...
Son of the Shuttle: NASA Looks for a Rocket Ship; for the 21st CenturyIT IS THE SCI-FI DREAM THE SPACE SHUTtle promised but never delivered: a rocket that could whisk...By RogersAdam
massive Saturn V rocket. The future lunar vehicle, called Altair, is planned to be launched separately from Orion atop an Ares V booster, while the crew capsule will fly on the smaller Ares I rocket. The two new vehicles will rendezvous in low-Earth orbit and travel on to the moon ...
In a briefing Tuesday, NASA officials went into new detail about concerns linked to the Orion capsule built by Lockheed Martin. First, the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission revealed the heat shield lost some of its material during its fiery re...
A new Amazon documentary pays loving tribute to Spirit and Opportunity — the exploration vehicles that unexpectedly lasted years on the Red Planet — and the scientists who made them Movie Review By K. Austin Collins NASA Rocket Knocked Space Rock Off Rocker Agency confirms its recent inter...
The pair, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, are seasoned Navy test pilots who have each spent six months inspace. They are expected to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, sendingthe new Starliner spacecraftto the International Space Station. ...