USC A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First TimeWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus In the early morning of April 21, 10 students from the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Lab piled into the back of a pickup …
Boeing Boeing bounces back with successful test of Starliner space taxi’s propulsion systemgeekwire.com - Alan Boyle Boeing has successfully run the propulsion system for its CST-100 Starliner space taxi through the same test it failed almost a year ago, marking a …
Meteorites Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest placesphys.org Earth is bombarded every year by rocky debris, but the rate of incoming meteorites can change over time. Finding enough meteorites scattered on the …
Spacecraft Here’s How NASA Prepares Its Spacecraft for Marsfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann The unmanned spacecraft that NASA wants to send to Mars in the year 2020 — if things go according to plan — just underwent a series of extreme tests …
NASA NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space stationArs Technica - Eric Berger "This time when we go to the Moon, we're actually going to stay." NASA has chosen its first commercial partner for a proposed space station, known as …
Play buttonSatellites SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Into OrbitThe New York Times - By KENNETH CHANGOn Thursday night, SpaceX launched a batch of 60 internet communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. More than one hour later, some 270 miles above Earth, the cluster satellites
Geek An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North PoleGizmodo - George Dvorsky Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice …
Photos Photos: The Small Bodies of the Solar SystemThe Atlantic - Alan TaylorOur neighborhood around the sun may appear to be dominated by the eight known planets, a handful of dwarf planets, and their moons, but the spaces between these titans are teeming with smaller, lesser-known
Apollo Missions The NASA engineer who helped Apollo astronauts catch their ride homeMIT Technology Review - Erin Winick To get back from the lunar surface, the astronauts had to rendezvous in lunar orbit. Sheila Thibeault helped make that possible. In the months leading …
NASA NASA’s Juno just discovered that Jupiter and Earth have something important in commonbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered some of the most stunning glimpses of the gas giant that mankind has ever seen, but it’s also taught scientists …
NASA NASA’s full Artemis plan revealed: 37 launches and a lunar outpostArs Technica - Eric Berger Still missing? The total cost. And that's probably by design. In the nearly two months since Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return to the …
Jupiter Starwatch: a meeting between the moon and JupiterThe Guardian - Stuart ClarkWhereas our first lunar conjunction of the month (with Mars two weeks ago) took place when the moon was very young, this pairing with Jupiter takes place when the moon is just past full. Our natural satellite
Galaxies Two galaxies play tug of war in this spectacular Hubble imageDigital Trends As galaxies move across the universe, they sometimes interact and even collide when they come close enough to each other. In some cases, we can see …
NASA NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just hit an absolutely crazy milestonebgr.com - Mike Wehner Of all the pieces of hardware that NASA has sent to Mars, we don’t hear about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter nearly as much as we’d like. It’s an …
Universe The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought. Scientists are scrambling to figure out why.NBC News - By Corey S. PowellNew research suggests that the Big Bang that birthed the cosmos occurred 12.5 billion years ago. We've all lost track of time at one point or another, but astronomers really go all in. Recent studies they
Moon China’s Chang’E-4 may have landed near pieces of the Moon’s interiorArs Technica - John Timmer Some of the minerals present look like what we'd expect from the deep interior. While some of the details are still being worked out, it's generally …
Play buttonNASA NASA administrator on new Moon plan: ‘We’re doing this in a way that’s never been done before’The Verge - Loren GrushNASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is currently the public face of the agency’s newly named lunar initiative, Artemis, which aims to put the first woman on the surface of the Moon by 2024. On Monday, revealed
SpaceX NASA teams up with SpaceX, Blue Origin to design a human lunar landerEngadget - Mariella MoonIt will take astronauts to the moon's surface and back up to the Gateway lunar base. NASA has revealed its efforts to create a human landing system shortly after it announced the Artemis lunar exploration
Solar System First results from New Horizons’ time in the Kuiper BeltArs Technica - John Timmer Only about 10 percent of the data has been transmitted so far, but it says a lot. For many at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, January 1 …
Play buttonAirspace As commercial spaceflight takes off, the aviation industry gets protective of airspaceThe Verge - Loren GrushFor decades, airplanes and rockets have shared the skies in peace — but recently, satellite launches have started to irk the aviation industry. Whenever a rocket soars to space, it must pass through the
NASA Nichelle Nichols’ 1977 NASA Recruitment Film for Space Shuttle Astronautskottke.org - Jason Kottke In this NASA promotional film from 1977, Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols takes a tour of the Johnson Space Center with Apollo 12 astronaut Al Bean …
Science Yes, the United States Certainly DID Land Humans on the Moonsmithsonianmag.com - Roger D. Launius My grandfather, Jeffrey Hilliard Launius, was a 75-year-old farmer from southern Illinois at the time of the first moon landing in 1969. He didn’t …
Planets As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the PatternQuanta Magazine - Rebecca Boyle Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size. After the sun formed, the dust and …
SpaceX SpaceX plans to A/B test its Starship rocketship buildsArs Technica - Eric Berger "This is a competition to see which location is most effective." On Tuesday, photos began to emerge online of a new, Starship-like vehicle being built …
NASA NASA reveals funding needed for Moon program, says it will be named ArtemisArs Technica - Eric Berger "It requires everything that America has to offer to reach the end state." NASA revealed Monday that it needs an additional $1.6 billion in funding …
Travel These 6 space centers are celebrating the moonwalk’s 50th anniversaryNational Geographic - Kimberley LovatoBlast off to explore the past, present, and future of travel through the cosmos. All eyes are on the skies this year for the countdown to July 20, 2019, which marks a half-century since Neil Armstrong
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