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On this day in space! NASA astronaut Mae Jemison makes history as the 1st Black woman in space
12+ hour, 37+ min ago (435+ words) Jemison, a medical doctor and engineer, spent 8 days in orbit on space shuttle Endeavour. On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were…...
Today in History: September 12, Voyager 1 leaves the solar system – WTOP News
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (375+ words) Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2026. There are 110 days left in the year. On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as the “Ship…...
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
17+ hour, 8+ min ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
Space Exploration
1+ week, 5+ day ago (420+ words) A mighty space telescope is dying. Here’s why it mattered NASA’s formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of the high-energy sky How many spaceports does the U.S....
Under pressure -- space exploration in our time
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (145+ words) High stakes leadership and landing on Mars Cross-border diffusion -- learning from lightning on Venus Why protect bootprints on the Moon? Unlike ancient footprints, cave drawings, and stone-age tools found here on Earth, the first traces of human activity on the…...
Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (186+ words) How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to…...
Science experiments (and one CBC journalist) go zero-gravity with NRC research plane
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (46+ words) Yahoo News Canada The CBC's Stu Mills got to tag along with students from universities across Canada for a series of experiments conducted in zero gravity on the National Research Council's Falcon 20 jet....
NASA and NFL Collaborate to Promote Space Exploration, Tour Will Culminate With Event at Kennedy Space Center Nov. 7 and 8
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (307+ words) Space Coast Daily Home » Home » NASA and NFL Collaborate to Promote Space Exploration, Tour Will Culminate With Event at Kennedy Space Center Nov. 7 and 8 NASA, NFL Team Up to Showcase Space, Aeronautics Innovation, Flyovers will showcase NASA’s fleet of aircraft…...
How FLEX measures Earth’s secret glow from space
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (98+ words) European Space Agency Nature is full of incredible light shows, like sea sparkles and fireflies, many of which we can see with the naked eye. In sunlight, however, there is a faint glow we do not see.It is emitted…...
Venus Aerospace Opens New Propulsion Test Stand at Houston Spaceport
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (173+ words) Sep 10, 2026, 19:21 ET HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace today officially opened its new propulsion test stand at the Houston Spaceport, adding critical infrastructure to support the continued development and maturation of its rotating detonation rocket engine technology. The test stand was…...