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Europe's Daring Mars Mission Prepares for Touchdown
Mars, we’ve got our eyes on you. Next week, a European spacecraft will make a challenging entry into the Martian atmosphere to deploy a lander on the surface. Called Schiaparelli, the little lander is expected to demonstrate future landing technologies while doing at least a few days of observations on Mars. This is the first […]
What to expect from Schiaparelli’s camera
As the ExoMars Schiaparelli module descends onto Mars on 19 October it will capture 15 images of the approaching surface. Scientists have simulated the view we can expect to see from the descent camera. To source
Orionid Meteor Shower 2016: When, Where & How to See It
Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes snapped this amazing photo of an Orionid meteor streaking above a lake in Elverson, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 22, 2011, during the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower. One of the year’s best sky shows will peak between Oct. 20 and 22, when the Orionid meteor shower reaches its best viewing. The […]
Nighttime Launch of Private Cargo Ship Visible Along US East Coast on Monday
This map shows the regions of visibility for Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket nighttime launch scheduled for 8:03 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 from Wallops Island, Virginia. The launch may be visible from a wide region of the U.S. East Coast. Color bands denote the time after launch (in seconds) the rocket’s plume may […]
Sloshing fluids
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Learning about fluids in weightlessness on the Space Station To source
US Will Send People to Mars by 2030s, Barack Obama Says
President Barack Obama delivers a speech about his vision for the future of space exploration at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 15, 2010. President Barack Obama wants NASA to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s, he wrote in a CNN op-ed published today (Oct. 11). “We have set a clear […]
In Daylight on the Night Side
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks down at the rings of Saturn from above the planet’s nightside. To source
NASA T-38 Jets In Flight – Cockpit View Captured by Astronaut | Video
By Steve Spaleta | October 11, 2016 08:46am ET Don Pettit captured video of a recent flight that saw his fellow astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Stephanie Wilson bank low over Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama. The fly-by was done to honor of the completion of Test Stand 4697, which will be used […]
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Should We Launch a Kid to Space?
Students from Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Washington, D.C. try on a spacesuit glove at a space education event in 2011. On Aug. 6, 1961, cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second person ever to orbit the Earth. He zipped around the planet 17 times aboard the Soviet Union’s Vostok 2 spacecraft and then touched down on […]
Project Blue: Private Space Telescope to Hunt for Alien Earth at Alpha Centauri
An exoplanet could orbit in the habitable zone of our neighboring binary star system, Alpha Centauri, as depicted in this illustration. Alpha Centauri A is the larger star, and B is the smaller one. A new initiative called “Project Blue” aims to spy on our interstellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, to capture an unprecedented visible-light image […]
6 Private Deep Space Habitat Concepts That May Pave the Way to Mars
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer | October 11, 2016 06:00pm ET Credit: NASA Housing Humans in Deep Space To bring astronauts to Mars by the 2030s , NASA has selected six private companies to design and develop deep space habitats under the second Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) Broad Agency Announcement. NextSTEP-2 focuses […]