SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope
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NASA analog astronauts begin mock Red Planet mission today
The next time that Kelly Haston, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and Anca Selariu will see blue sky, a year will have gone by on Earth. Not that the four “analog astronauts” are leaving the planet, but for the next 12 months they will live inside a mock Mars base located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where…
Virgin Galacti will launch its 1st commercial spaceflight on June 27
Virgin Galactic’s first-ever commercial spaceflight will launch this month, if all goes according to plan. The company, part of billionaire Richard Branson‘s Virgin Group, announced Thursday (June 15) that it has set a launch window of June 27 to June 30 for its debut operational flight, which it calls Galactic 01. “Galactic 01, a scientific research…
video shows ISS crossing the sun’s face during a spacewalk
The station passes over a sunspot big enough to swallow Earth. https://content.jwplatform.com/previews/8zE4Gefi Capturing footage of the International Space Station (ISS) hurtling through space at approximately 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h) is no mean feat, yet French astrophotographer Thierry Legault has pulled it off yet again.
Watch live views of Mars from a European probe at the Red Planet in a 1st-of-its-kind livestream today
‘This will be the closest you can get to a live view from the Red Planet.’ It begins at 12 pm ET (1600 GMT). The European Space Agency (ESA) will livestream imagery from its Mars Express orbiter in near-real time today (June 2), and you can watch it live. The event, held to celebrate the…
Watch Live! SpaceX launches Axiom Space Ax-2 crew to space station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the four private astronauts of the Ax-2 mission toward the International Space Station today (May 21) at 5:37 p.m. EDT (2137 GMT).
Blue Origin will build NASA’s new moon lander for Artemis astronauts
It’s the second Artemis crew lander after SpaceX’s Starship, which was selected in 2021. A moon lander built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will be the second system that takes NASA astronauts to the lunar surface, agency officials announced today (May 19). A consortium led by Blue Origin won the second Human Landing System (HLS) contract issued…
SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission is ‘go’ for May 21 launch
Ax-2 will send four people to the International Space Station for an eight-day stay. The second-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) remains on track to lift off this weekend. NASA, SpaceX and Houston company Axiom Space held a flight readiness review (FRR) today (May 15) for the Ax-2 mission, which is scheduled to launch…
Russian Space Walk
Russian cosmonauts perform spacewalk outside International Space StationTwo Russian cosmonauts will perform a 7-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 12)
Seismic waves inside Mars’ core hint at how it became hostile to life
The data collected with the InSight lander revealed properties of the Martian core that could indicate why it is unfriendly to life. Seismic waves have been observed traveling through the core of Mars for the first time, revealing details of the composition of the Red Planet’s heart. The results may suggest why Earth can support…