NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is awarding $1 million to public members who can show inventive solutions to the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-term missions. The Issue Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) generally consume canned or dry ...
Liftoff will occur over a three-hour window beginning at 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT). 12 p.m. ET UPDATE: NEW LAUNCH TIME Astra is now aiming for a 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT) launch from Florida today, the company’s initial East ...
NASA has said that it intends to decommission the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it into an uninhabited section of the Pacific Ocean. Satellites, like every other technology, do not endure forever. Whether their mission is to watch ...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station do spine scans, heart checks, and breathing tests. During a spacewalk on January 19, 2022, Russian spacewalkers Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov worked on the Prichal module. The International Space Station’s main scientific activities ...
The launch of an Italian satellite and SpaceX’s next Starlink fleet mission have been postponed multiple times. Due to inclement weather, SpaceX postponed two back-to-back rocket launches from Florida on Saturday (Jan. 29). Bad weather resulted in previous delays in ...
Is this a close-up of a tree stump or an orbital view of a crater? At first look, it may not be easy to tell. However, this picture of a crater on Mars supplies planetary scientists with much the same ...