Over 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and a giant leap for mankind. Most of humanity’s knowledge about foreign worlds comes from robotic exploration through various orbiters, rovers, and landers. They have been extensively used to study numerous celestial bodies including the Sun, Moon,…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first…
View More NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ HistoryBlue Origin to Begin Space Tourism Ticket Sales Wednesday
Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, is poised to open up ticket sales on Wednesday for suborbital sightseeing trips on its New Shepard spacecraft,…
View More Blue Origin to Begin Space Tourism Ticket Sales WednesdayNASA Perseverance Rover to Hunt for Past Life on Mars
Perseverance, also nicknamed “Percy”, is a Jet Propulsion Laboratory manufactured latest in the line of rovers for the NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It was launched…
View More NASA Perseverance Rover to Hunt for Past Life on MarsNASA shuts down its planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9-1/2-year mission in which it detected thousands…
View More NASA shuts down its planet hunter, the Kepler space telescopeNASA, ULA Launch Mission to Track Earth’s Changing Ice
WASHINGTON, – NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. EDT Saturday, embarking on its mission to measure…
View More NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Track Earth’s Changing IceNASA Television to Air Launch, Capture of Japanese Cargo Ship to Space Station
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2018 / – A Japanese cargo ship loaded with more than five tons of supplies, water, spare parts and experiments is scheduled to launch to…
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