Scott Kidd-Poteet is the mission's pilot, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and test pilot.斯科特·基德-波蒂特 (Scott Kidd-Poteet) 是此次任务的飞行员，他是一名退役空军中校和试飞员。You've been wanting to go to space your whole life.你一辈子都想去太空。You call me old?你说我老？I...
SpaceX launched NASA's planetary defense mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday. The mission is an attempt to understand how to deflect an asteroid off a collision course toward Ea...
Late in the countdown, Launch Weather Officer Mike McAleenan with the U.S. Air Force 45thWeather Squadron reported conditions were “go.” The remaining countdown milestones ticked by quickly, and at 3:22 p.m. EDT, the Falcon 9’s nine Merlin engines ignited. NASA’...
And so NASA said goodbye to the building where engineers designed the Saturn V rocket that carried the first humans to the Moon, 因此,NASA告别了工程师们设计土星5号火箭、将首批人类送上月球的大楼, Building 4200 went out with a bang at a cont...
"To optimize our workforce, and in compliance with an Executive Order, NASA is beginning its phased approach to a reduction in force, known as a RIF."When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA...
Mr. Trump’s administration has elevated aspects of space policy in his White House, re-establishing a National Space Council led by Vice President Pence, and adding a Space Force to the Department of Defense. He has a...
Hague is a 1998 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering. About two-thirds of NASA astronauts have served in the military, the Space Force said. “Being a part of this mission is a unique honor, but it’s truly a ...
the SenateAppropriationCommittee introduced abillthat would direct NASA to pick a second company to develop a lunar lander for Artemis. However, the most recent budget bill that was signed for 2022 did not force NASA to do that, but it did give the space agency the full $1.195 billion it ...
Houston, Texas. Cygnus launched on Aug. 4 from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following a deorbit engine firing on March 30, Cygnus will begin a destructive re-entry in which the spacecraft, filled with trash, will burn up in Earth’s ...
“The FAA is aware an anomaly occurred during the SpaceX NASA Crew-9 mission that launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on September 28,” the agency said Monday following Crew-9’s successful docking. “The incident involved the Falcon 9 second stage lan...