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5 days ago · The $93-billion plan to put astronauts back on the Moon. “There’s a lot we need to relearn or figure out,” says Juliane Gross, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in ...
4 days ago · The antibiotic lolamicin targets disease-causing bacteria without disturbing healthy gut bacteria. Plus, the underground lab that will test a controversial dark-matter claim and how NASA ...
2 days ago · On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC ). It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft ...
2 days ago · NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance attempt to send up astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on June 1, 2024 on the Crew Flight Test mission aboard the CST-100 Starliner on its first human…
3 days ago · Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born American astronaut, broke barriers as the first woman of Indian origin to travel to space. She flew on the STS-87 mission in 1997 and again on the STS-107 mission in ...
5 days ago · The day after the spacewalk, having repressurized the shuttle cabin to 14.7 psi, the astronauts opened the hatches between the shuttle and the station, first into the PMA-2, then into Node 1, and finally into Zarya. Jernigan and Tokarev entered the station first, and the rest of the crew followed shortly after.
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2 days ago · After multiple delays, the highly anticipated inaugural crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner is “go” for launch on Saturday — and the new spacecraft will be carrying a duo of veteran astronauts. Liftoff of Boeing’s Crew Flight Test mission is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
