Our next step is deep space,where NASA will send a robotic mission to catch and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon.Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s,returning to Earth with samples.This experience in human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit will...
past seven months, including a fire, a collision, computer failures and leaks.Charles Harlan, safety director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said NASA senior managers "should have the guts" to admit enough is enough and stop sending personnel to Mir if the mishaps continue to mount....
Last year,a new theory emerged on YouTubethat the last moon landing, one from Apollo 17, was staged, despite insurmountable evidence to the contrary. A user claimed in a video that a reflection of a stagehand was visible on the helmet of one of the astronauts, which drew ...
Homer Hickam, author of many books, is best known for his # 1 New York Times best-selling memoir Rocket Boys which was adapted into the movie October Sky.
This altitude—some 20 miles above sea level—is well below the internationally-recognized line at 62 miles considered to be the boundary to space, or even the 50-mile limit at which NASA and the United States Air Force issue astronaut wings to pilots and flight crew. Nonetheless, the low ...
International Space Station — On July 27, 2020, NASA mission control asked astronaut Major Karen Mumpsimus to perform a spacewalk to repair one of the International Space Station's solar panels. However, the astronaut refused to wear a spacesuit during her excursion outside the station based on...