Boeing Opens Renovated Shuttle Facility for 'Starliner' Crewed Space Capsule
Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, or the C3PF, will ready the CST-100 “Starliner” for flight.Credit: collectSPACE.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Boeing rolled open the doors to its new commercial spacecraft processing facility on Friday (Sept. 4), celebrating the grand opening of the re-purposed space shuttle-era building and revealing the name of the crewed capsule […]
May the Toys Be with You! 5 Cool 'Force Friday' Finds
One of the new “Star Wars” toys that become available today (Sept. 4) is the adorable robot BB-8.Credit: Getty for Toys“R”Us The new line of “Star Wars” toys was revealed today (Sept. 4), aka Force Friday, and we’re already picking out our favorites. The toys feature a mixture of elements from the upcoming movie “Star […]
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Making Mars Exploration 'Smart and Cool': NASA and 'The Martian'
Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is stranded on Mars, in the new Ridley Scott movie, “The Martian.”Credit: Twentieth Century Fox In the history of Hollywood envisioning the future of space exploration, few, if any movies have come as close to NASA’s own goals at the time of their release as does “The Martian.” At a […]
Right Place, Right Time: See Mercury in the Night Sky This Week
Mercury is a very challenging planet to view, but this week, skywatchers have a good chance to see it, especially in the Southern Hemisphere —on Friday, Sept. 4, the planet travels as far east of the sun as it can go, its greatest elongation. Here, we see the planet as we might from space —for […]
The Moon Hits a Cosmic Bull's Eye Tonight: How to See It
The moon will appear to eclipse the bright star Aldebaran on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in what astronomers call an occultation. Aldebaran is a bright star that forms the eye of the constellation Taurus, the Bull.Credit: Starry Night Software If you live in the eastern-third of the United States or southeast Canada and your local […]
Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm
The Sentinel-2A satellite has been in orbit for only a matter of weeks, but new images of an algal bloom in the Baltic Sea show that it is already exceeding expectations. Built essentially as a land monitoring mission, Sentinel-2 will also certainly find its way into marine applications. To source
Video: ESTEC on the move
This spectacular time-lapse video depicts a composite day in the life of Europe’s largest space centre To source
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 31 August-4 September 2015 To source
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Mission team ready for Galileo launch
When the next pair of Galileo satellites is boosted into orbit next Friday, a team of mission control experts in Darmstadt, Germany, will spring into action, working around the clock to bring the duo through their critical first days in space. To source
Hubble Peers into the Heart of a Galactic Maelstrom
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is the nearest group containing both bright spirals and a bright elliptical galaxy (Messier 105). To source
'Citizen Mars' Web Series Features Would-Be Red-Planet Colonists
Artist’s concept of Mars One’s envisioned colony on the Red Planet.Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One A new Web TV series follows the efforts of five people who hope to be among the first humans to set foot on Mars. The subjects of the new series, which is called “Citizen Mars” and airs on Engadget.com, aim to […]