In a hardscrabble crater on Mars, a tiny helicopter with a smartphone brain is now days away from trying the first powered flight to another world. NASA hopes that its spindly robotic helicopter, named ingenuity, will prove that thin flight is possible in dangerously thin Martian air and help us …
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In less than three years, astronauts will return to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. As part of the Artemis program, the purpose is not just to find and collect specimens on a mission crewed to the moon’s surface. At this time, there is also the …
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NASA conducted its first splash test for the Orion spacecraft ahead of the upcoming Artemis lunar mission. The camera captured the 11-foot capsule as a large water tank fell into the ‘Hydro Effect Basin’ at the Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia. However, this drop …
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NASA’s ingenuity Mars helicopter, attached to the belly of the Perseverance Rover, contains a small relic from the first Wright Brothers aircraft that took flight more than 100 years ago. The small amount of material from the wings of the Wright Brothers aircraft, known as the flight, is now aboard …
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NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover took a space walk outside the International Space Station on Saturday to upgrade the lab’s communications and cooling system. Walking about 250 miles from Earth, lasted about seven hours. Struggling with obscure electrical connectors, Hopkins helped plug and secure the four thick power …
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