Jennifer WhittakerScience How’s the View From a Spinning Star? The New York Times - Randall MunroeThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the spin rate of the pulsar PSR J1748–2446. It is 43,000 miles second,
Jennifer WhittakerTelescopes Watch as NASA's James Webb Telescope deploys its massive, honeycomb-shaped mirror Inverse - Passant Rabie NASA’s James Webb Telescope is designed to peer back in time across the universe, observing distant galaxies that are over 13 billion light years …
Jennifer WhittakerTravel Nasa holds contest to find the best picture of Earth taken from space dailymail.co.uk - By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline The competition is fierce in this public-vote photography contest - because all the entries are out of this world. Nasa's Earth Observatory has opened …
Jennifer WhittakerNASA WATCH | This is Nasa's highest-resolution picture of Mars traveller24.com Captured by the Nasa's Curiosity rover in 2019, the panoramic photo consists of 1.8 billion pixels of the Glen Torridon region.
Jennifer WhittakerSpaceX SpaceX stacks third Starship prototype ahead of testing (photos) space.com - Mike Wall The latest test version of the Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft, called the SN3, has been stacked at SpaceX's South Texas facilities, new photos …
Jennifer WhittakerInSight Lander NASA fixes Mars lander by hitting it with a shovel CNN - By Jack Guy, CNN(CNN) — NASA may have a multi-billion dollar budget and some of the most advanced technology in the world, but when the Mars InSight lander got into a spot of bother, scientists came up with a charmingly
Jennifer WhittakerAsteroids What scientists learned after firing a small cannonball into a near-Earth asteroid CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a copper cannonball a little bigger than a tennis ball into a near-Earth asteroid named Ryugu to learn about its composition.
Jennifer WhittakerGear & Gadgets At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars Popular Science - Charlie WoodNASA unsticks its Martian digging probe by whacking it with a shovel. Every day, the InSight lander’s suite of instruments sends back data proving that the Red Planet isn’t really dead. Marsquakes rumble
Jennifer WhittakerplayFalcon 9 Distract yourself from coronavirus and watch SpaceX launch the same rocket for the fifth time The Verge - Loren GrushUpdate March 18th, 10:35AM ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off on time and deployed all 60 satellites into their intended orbit. However, the rocket failed to land as intended on the company’s
Jennifer Whittaker NASA Recreated What Apollo 13 Astronauts Saw While Circling the Moon in a Glorious 4K Visualization Gizmodo - Andrew Liszewski Despite not actually getting to walk on its surface, the Apollo 13 astronauts were still able to visit the moon from a distance of around 158 miles …
Jennifer Whittaker This is the scariest, most counterintuitive thing astronauts had to do in space Fast Company - Charles FishmanFlying in space to rendezvous with another craft is so hard that the first U.S. astronaut to try it completely failed. This is the 41st in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until
Jennifer WhittakerplayTechnology NASA’s amazing space telescope will peer 13.5 billion years into the past Fast Company - Susan KarlinAfter nearly a quarter-century and several delays, the $9.6 billion James Webb Space Telescope is in the home stretch for a 2021 launch. It’s a sight out of a science-fiction novel—a soaring tower of gold
Jennifer WhittakerCulture Explore Curiosity’s New 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama of Mars thisiscolossal.com - Grace Ebert While many Americans were enjoying a few days off of work for the Thanksgiving holiday, Curiosity Mars Rover (previously) was busy taking more than …
Jennifer Whittaker NASA spacecraft recovers from glitch 11.5 billion miles from Earth futurism.com - Victor Tangermann NASA’s Voyager 2, initially launched in 1977 to study our star system’s outer planets, is currently in interstellar space billions of miles from …
Jennifer Whittaker A Mesmerizing View of Earth From Space discovermagazine.com - Tom Yulsman There are all manner of beautiful satellite views of Earth. But how can you view the entire face of our spherical planet — all 360 degrees of it — in …
Jennifer Whittaker The Risk of Apollo: Astronauts Swap Harrowing Tales from NASA's Moon Shots space.com - Chelsea Gohd NEW YORK — It's no secret that NASA's Apollo missions were risky. Political pressures pushed the hardworking teams at NASA further and faster than …
Jennifer Whittaker 50 Years on – how Apollo 13's near disastrous mission is relevant today The Guardian - Kevin FongNasa had learned to be wary – they knew that plans hatched in the heat of the moment often harbour flaws Eighteen months ago, I was combing through the Apollo 11 mission logs, looking at the timelines
Jennifer Whittaker NASA's new 'space home' for tourists could cost as much as $35,000 to stay in— see inside Business Insider - Mary MeisenzahlWhen you've exhausted your bucket list of earthbound destinations, space is the logical next step. Space exploration company Axiom is launching a space tourism program to fly tourists to the International
Jennifer Whittaker NASA gives JPL green light for mission to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth Los Angeles Times - Amina KhanNASA’s proposed budget builds toward a future when earthlings will set foot on Mars. And in the meantime, it takes the next big step toward bringing a little bit of Mars back to Earth. NASA Administrator
Jennifer Whittaker China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side The New York Times - Kenneth ChangChina’s robotic Chang’e-4 spacecraft did something last year that had never been done before: It landed on the moon’s far side, and Yutu-2, a small rover it was carrying, began trundling through a crater
Jennifer WhittakerSpace Exploration What is it like to cook in space? Astronaut records cookery show on board the International Space Station. independent.co.uk - Ryan Ramgobin European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has recorded her own cookery show on board the International Space Station. For a nation that …
Jennifer WhittakerSpace Historic Apollo 11 capsule completes two-year, five-city 'Destination Moon' tour space.com - Robert Z. Pearlman "Columbia" is once again bound for the District of Columbia. The spacecraft, which half a century ago flew on the first mission to land humans on the …
Jennifer Whittaker The public is helping us see Jupiter like it's never been seen before CNN - By Thomas Page, CNN(CNN) — NASA wants your help. No, really. From the outside, the agency may appear a monolith, but in reality, citizen scientists can play a substantial role -- perhaps none more so than in the ongoing
Jennifer Whittaker John Glenn and the courage of the Mercury Seven The Washington Post - Sarah KaplanThis is how, in September 1959, Life Magazine introduced the Mercury Seven — NASA's first astronauts. At that point, no person had even attempted to reach space. Rockets routinely blew up on the launchpad.
Jennifer Whittaker SpaceX Plans To Send Tourists To Space As Soon As 2021 Asia Tatler - Kaitlyn McInnis Four lucky travelers will be heading on an out-of-this-world excursion as early as 2021. SpaceX has officially signed a deal with space tourism …
Jennifer Whittaker Engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid phys.org - Jennifer Chu On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than the Eiffel Tower is tall, will streak by Earth at 30 kilometers per second, grazing the …
Jennifer Whittaker Animated Paper Shuttle Launch dribbble.com - Michael Fugoso @Austin Faure Did an amazing job bringing my Paper Shuttle Launch illustration to life! Give him a follow for more amazing illustration inspiration! …
Jennifer Whittaker NASA has a plan for yearly Artemis moon landings through 2030. The first one could fly in 2021. space.com - Hanneke Weitering The first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion crew capsule — and the first big step in putting astronauts back on the …
