AvatarValkorflipped into AstroPhysicsNASA Successfully Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid for the First Time in Historyverified_publisherMy Modern Met - Jessica StewartThere's something historic to celebrate at NASA. For the first time in the agency's long history, a NASA spacecraft touched down on an asteroid. On October 20, OSIRIS-REx briefly landed on the Bennu asteroid, which is located 200 million miles from Earth. The quick touch-and-go (TAG) landing …
CNBCflipped into Top NewsSpaceX now has two spacecraft docked to the space station for the first timeverified_publisherCNBC - Michael SheetzSpaceX docked its Cargo Dragon capsule with the International Space Station on Monday, marking the first time the company has two spacecraft …
JBflipped into Space UnitesA Chinese spacecraft just brought moon rocks back to Earth — the first time any country has achieved the feat since 1976verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Susie NeilsonA Chinese space capsule has landed back on Earth with the first rocks collected from the moon since the 1970s. The Chang'e-5 capsule touched down in northern China on Wednesday afternoon ET in a landing site in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, according to the state-owned Xinhua News Agency. …
Zachzilla23flipped into The TruthThe United Arab Emirates successfully launches its first spacecraft bound for Marsverified_publisherThe Verge - Loren GrushToday, the United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary mission successfully took off from the southern tip of Japan, sending up a car-sized probe bound for the planet Mars. The launch marks the beginning of the country’s most ambitious space project yet, aimed at studying the weather on Mars as it …
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesWatch SpaceX launch its new and improved cargo Dragon spacecraft for the first timeverified_publisherTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonSpaceX is launching a new spacecraft during its 21st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission for the International Space Station this morning. The launch is set to take off at 11:17 AM EST (8:17 AM PST) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and will be the first-ever flight of an updated version …
Business InsiderJul 25, 2020NASA added 6 HD video cameras to its next Mars rover so we can all watch the first footage of a spacecraft landing on another planetverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Dave MosherOne out of every two spacecraft that humanity rockets toward Mars for a landing never makes it. Those are the rough odds facing NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission and Perseverance rover, which is currently scheduled to launch from Earth on July 30 and reach the red planet on February 18. The mission's …
CNETflipped into Living in the FutureHere's the first 'selfie' of China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft on its way to Marsverified_publisherCNET - Jackson RyanThe 'deep space self portrait' was released to coincide with National Day in China.
caioflipped into Space Curiosity Nanojets on the Sun seen clearly for first time by spacecraftspace.comNASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured imagery of nanojets in the Sun's corona. Nanojets are "bright thin lights that …
Digital Trendsflipped into Digital Trends: Tech for the Way We LiveNASA’s Juno spacecraft maps the northern pole of moon Ganymede for first timeverified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina TorbetNASA’s Juno spacecraft has imaged Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, and has captured images showing how its unusual magnetic field affects the ice at …
