It will be the first time the U.S. space program has launched a rocket from Australia since 1995 and its first-ever launch from a commercial launchpad on foreign soil. Seventy-five NASA personnel will travel to Australia to oversee the launches, which will be used to study heliophysics, as...
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.-When the total solar eclipse passes over North America on April 8, the sights of theMoonand the Sun will not be the only features flying high above Earth - NASA is planning to launch a series of rockets to study the impacts the event will have on the atmosphere. T...
Put your rocket over the end of a straw and use the force of your breath to launch it! How far does it go? Try making longer and shorter rockets. What happens if you change the shape or number of fins? Record your flight lengths. What does this teach you? Paper rockets demonstrate h...
NASA waits for clear skies to launch rockets from Wallops IslandMartin Weil
rockets we use to launch from Earth because Mars’s gravity is lower and the samples will have such a small amount of mass. The total mass of the rocket will be just over 1,000 pounds, so it’s feasible for a mechanism in the lander to push it into the air before its engines ...
NASA will launch three Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets into the moon's shadow during the April 8 total solar eclipse to study the Earth's ionosphere.
The U.S. space agency on Friday night announced it will work with the Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) to launch four rockets from the Arnhem Space Center in Northern Territory, 700 km east of Darwin, in 2020. "This is the single most important event to date in putting the Australian sp...
Scientists at NASA will be sending rockets into the path of Monday's total eclipse in an effort to help unravel the mysteries of the solar system. NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen joined CBS News to discuss some of the scientific aspects of the eclipse.
The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission are thrilled, to say the least, to be on the crew that will send the first humans to the moon in more than 50 years.You can read our full story here. Set to launch on a Space Launch System megarocket in 2024, NASA astronauts Reid Wi...
Mars Sample Return:The current plan is for NASA to launch a rocket containing a new Mars lander in 2026. Inside the lander will be a small rocket developed by NASA (the Mars Ascent Vehicle, or MAV) and a rover developed by ESA (the Sample Fetch Rover). ...