🚀 Space
Space is the final frontier and is now being opened to everyone thanks to front runners such as NASA and now SpaceX and Elon Musk, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
Beam Us Up Scotty… Virgin Galactic Unveils Star Trek Style Space Suits for Tourists
🚀 Virgin Galactic may be aiming for 2020 as the commencement of their private space tourist program. Until very recently, the idea of sending people to space has always sounded like pure science fiction. Yet today, space tourism is quickly becoming reality, and Virgin Galactic is ambitious in its private space
Stunning Imagery of Jupiter's Moons, Io and Europa, in Orbit
First launched on October 15, 1997, the Cassini-Huygens space-research mission was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. Its mission was to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system. Of course, along the way to Saturn, Cassini had numerous opportunities
Captain's Log: Stardate 11910.2, There's coffee in that nebula.
🚀 🌑Star Trek fandom has gone orbital: European astronaut and Trekkie Samantha Cristoforetti, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, tweeted a photo of herself in a uniform from the one of “Star Trek” TV series. ☕ ” ‘There’s coffee in that nebula’ … ehm, I mean… in that #Dragon,” Cristoforettiwrote in
New NASA telescope project will allow us to foresee what the dinosaurs could not
Most of us probably don’t worry about asteroids on a daily basis, but for NASA, this is one of the threats to our planet that must be considered. In an effort to avoid meeting the same fate as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, NASA is planning to launch
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Will Launch Private Moon Lander in 2021
A private lunar lander now has a rocket ride for its first moon mission. The robotic Nova-C lander, built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket [https://www.space.com/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html] on a NASA-sponsored flight in 2021, representatives of both companies announced today (Oct.
Scientists are deploying satellites to monitor whale strandings from space
Back in 2015, Chile saw one of the largest mass mortality of baleen whales in recorded history, tallying at least 343 whales. But the remote location of the stranding meant that it went unreported for weeks, after which whales went missing and decomposition made it hard to determine how the
NASA Aims for Mars Landings in 2035 While Building Support for Lunar Gateway
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is looking to land humans on Mars in the 2030s as he recruits partners of the International Space Station to help the agency land humans on the moon by 2024, according to his remarks at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). “If we are accelerating the moon
Virgin Galactic Powers Up New SpaceShipTwo Vehicle (Video)
The lights just went on inside Virgin Galactic’s next spaceliner. The Spaceship Co., Virgin Galactic’s manufacturing subsidiary, recently wrapped up a landmark “Power On” test of the third SpaceShipTwo vehicle [https://www.space.com/19021-spaceshiptwo.html], which is being assembled in Mojave, California. “This test verified the foundation
We May Finally Know How the Universe's Heavy Elements Formed
For the first time, scientists have detected a newly born heavy element in space, forged in the aftermath of a collision between a pair of dead stars known as neutron stars. The findings shed light on how the universe’s heaviest elements are created, providing a missing piece of the