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55 years after Apollo 1 fire, NASA's lessons live on as Orion aims for the moon

NASA's last moonbound program for astronauts lifted off under the shadow of a fatal incident on the Apollo 1 spacecraft, 55 years ago today (Jan. 27). Apollo 1 was expected to fly to Earth orbit later in 1967 with astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee ...

New NASA video honors fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia

NASA released a new video today (Jan. 27) to remember the three crews and other fallen astronauts who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration. The agency's annual "Day of Remembrance" falls this year on the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 1 ...

European sun probe flew through the tail of Comet Leonard

As Comet Leonard bid farewell to Earth and flew past Venus, a sun-studying spacecraft flew through the comet's long tail, giving humans a new perspective on the icy wanderer. Discovered last January and also known as Comet C/2021 A1, Comet Leonard was ...

Water on Mars may have flowed for a billion years longer than thought

Observations by a long-running Mars mission suggest that liquid water may have flowed on the Red Planet as little as 2 billion years ago, much later than scientists once thought. Scientists charted the presence of chloride salt deposits left behind by ...

SpaceX gives converted Falcon Heavy side booster new life

A converted SpaceX side booster that flew on two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019 will launch again Thursday as the first stage of a single-stick Falcon 9 rocket set to lift off from Cape Canaveral with an Italian radar imaging satellite.

NASA's Lucy asteroid spacecraft still has a wonky solar array as it flies through space

Three months after launch, a new NASA asteroid spacecraft is still getting settled into its life beyond Earth. NASA's Lucy mission launched Oct. 16 with a mission to explore the Trojan asteroids, which orbit the sun ahead of and behind Jupiter.

With the James Webb Space Telescope, Humanity Did the Right Thing

The New York Times

The New York Times

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NASA to name astronauts this year for first Artemis moon mission

Artemis 1 will be the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System, a heavy-lift rocket designed for lunar missions that's been in development for more than a decade. It will also be first trip by NASA's Orion crew capsule to the moon, following a ...

NASA's 'Nuclear Option' May Be Crucial for Getting Humans to Mars

Scientific American

Scientific American

NASA is presently pursuing not one but two classes of atomic-powered rocketry: nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear electric propulsion. Either of these approaches could pair with nuclear surface power—the third key fission technology under study by the ...

SpaceX to launch Italian Earth-observation satellite today. How to watch live.

A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT).