NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, is hoisted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41. The move and hoisting operations mark...
During the crew's 16 days in space, NASA investigated a foam strike that took place during launch. About 82 seconds after Columbia left the ground, a piece of foam fell from a "bipod ramp" that was part of a structure that attached the external tank to the shuttle. Video from the laun...
SpaceX, along with Boeing Co., also has a contract with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the “Commercial Crew” program, with the first crucial test flight slated for the second quarter. SpaceX competes for military launches with United ...
NASA's launch, slated for October, will send Clipper to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. "We discovered in '90s that there is a giant ocean below the crust. Now, for a long time, the question has haunted us, could there be life in the solar system beyond Earth?...
In Platoff's report, she points out that NASA engineers were challenged by the prospect of Apollo astronauts raising a flag on the moon. "They designed a flagpole with a horizontal bar allowing the flag to 'fly' without the benefit of wind to overcome the effects of the moon's lack of...
"Their plan is that they're going to do a few test flights there" in South Texas, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said. "Once they have the confidence, they will bring the missions to the Cape." How can I watch the Starship launch?
However, Starship's hull is stainless steel, which makes it more durable than other rockets but also extremely heavy. At 5,000 tons, it has twice the dry mass of the SLS. NASA's rocket can make it all the way to the moon in one launch, but Starship will have to refuel in orbit....
Launch (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground. NASA launched several unmanned rockets before launching any of the Mercury astronauts. Steamer (horse racing) A racehorse the odds of which are becoming shorter (that ...
SpaceX’s monster Starship spacecraft blew up after its first-ever test launch on Thursday. Just three days after a launch attempt was cancelled due to a frozen pressurant valve, the craft successfully launched, but didn’t make it to stage separation. Despite the craft’s “rapid unschedule...
And something else unprecedented happened: small projectiles launched from the planet escaped the biosphere. Some were propelled into orbits around the Earth; some journeyed to the moon and planets.If they understood astrophysics, the aliens could confidently predict that the biosphere would face doom ...