The first two satellites in a multi-billion-dollar NASA-European project to accurately measure rising sea levels, a major result of global warming, orbited the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California on Saturday. By the time it takes for a cloud-infiltrating radar beam to bounce off the ocean 830 miles below, the …
Read More »Why SpaceX ‘Ferry’ just launched a new Space Edge
This week, when Americans on the ground saw the confusion of lost calculations and found the ballot, it was the part of America that made history: SpaceX and NASA launched four astronauts into orbit and capsized the SpaceX capsule with the International Space Station. It was the first of six …
Read More »NASA says it is not possible for astronauts to land on the moon by 2024
N“By the end of 2024, astronauts will be hard pressed to land on the moon,” he said. The assessment by the agency’s inspector general’s office comes in a November 12 report and a 2020 report on NASA’s Top Management and Performance Challenges. Originally, NASA was working towards 2028 to return …
Read More »The Russian spacewalk aims to prepare the International Space Station for the new module
Wearing a giant spacecraft, the Russian two cosmonauts began next year in preparation for an almost identical PIRS module to use the International Space Station’s Peace Po King King compartment for the first time on the spacewalk on Wednesday. A new laboratory module will be erected in its place later. …
Read More »SpaceX astronauts brought with them a stoveway – Baby Yoda
The force is strong with this team of four NASA astronauts, who have arrived at the International Space Station carrying a small spacecraft – a plush baby Yoda. Dragon Commander Mike Hopkins, physicist Shannon Waker, Navy CMDR. Sensation of Victor Glover, Japanese astronaut Sochi Noguchi and the Disney Plus show …
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