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NASA Answers President Trump???s Call to Establish the United States Space Academy
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (439+ words) NASA-led work is in full swing to make the academy a reality and shape the future of America’s aerospace workforce and leadership. Home » Home » NASA Answers President Trump’s Call to Establish the United States Space Academy Executive Order was signed…...
Bendy Missiles: New Study Reveals How Flexibility Shapes Supersonic Flight
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (604+ words) Modern supersonic missiles and launch vehicles are engineered to be extraordinarily slender, a design choice that slices through aerodynamic drag and lets the vehicle sprint through the atmosphere at remarkable speeds. Yet that elegance comes at a hidden price....
China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans - AOL
21+ hour, 10+ min ago (527+ words) The Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even though the U.S. is already there. In an interview with state media, Chinese scientist Hou Zengqian has confirmed…...
On this day in space! NASA astronaut Mae Jemison makes history as the 1st Black woman in space
12+ hour, 35+ 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…...
The First Moon Base Will Be Built by Cargo Missions Before Astronauts Arrive — Curiosmos
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (669+ words) The first permanent foothold on the Moon will not begin with a crew stepping out of a lander and planting a flag beside a finished habitat. It will begin with cargo arriving early, systems being tested in a place that…...
The Heavy Disco-Ball Satellite Designed To Do… Nothing
21+ hour, 37+ min ago (32+ words) Launched in 1976, LAGEOS-1 (LAser GEOdynamic Satellite) is unusual in that it contains no instrumentation, no electronics, no power supply, and no means of propulsion. It's spherical, weighs just unde......
Today in History: September 12, Voyager 1 leaves the solar system – WTOP News
18+ hour, 9+ 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, 6+ 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....
In 2021, Blue Origin challenged NASA’s decision to award SpaceX its first crewed lunar-lander contract. Now, in a striking reversal, Blue Origin has won a NASA Mars communications-orbiter contract worth up to $700 million—and losing bidder Rocket Lab has filed its own protest with the same federal watchdog.
19+ hour, 18+ min ago (1243+ words) Rocket Lab has challenged NASA's Mars Telecommunications Network award to Blue Origin, five years after Blue Origin protested NASA's first crewed lunar-lander award to SpaceX....
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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....