Tag: NASA

NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first powered aircraft to make a controlled flight on a planet other than the earth. The copter hovered at a height of about 10feet in the Martian atmosphere....

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a joint US-European satellite built to monitor global sea levels, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Saturday...

Google has joined hands with the US space agency NASA to announce celebration of this week’s 20th anniversary of humans living and working on the International Space Station (ISS). This project includes NASA collections,...

In what is being regarded as further delay in the launch, NASA and SpaceX have once again changed the date from September to October 23 to lift-off its first operational flight with astronauts of...

In the first splashdown of an American crew spacecraft in 45 years, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of...

In order to protect NASA's newest Mars rover Perseverance and deploy the first-ever Mars helicopter, Lockheed Martin has developed the technology behind the aeroshell. The Mars 2020 spacecraft with its Perseverance rover is scheduled...

NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. While...

Achieving an important milestone on its way to the launch pad, NASA has announced that its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has cleared the Flight Readiness Review. The meeting was an opportunity for the...

After creating history by successfully riding SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 31st, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has now announced August 2 as the target splashdown date for...

Have you ever thought that you could make money by designing compact toilets for space? As astronauts prepare to go back to the Moon in 2024 via Artemis lunar lander, NASA seeks new designs...

In order to track the environmental and socioeconomic impacts caused by the global response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a unique collection of data from Earth-observing spacecraft managed by NASA, the European Space Agency...

After the SpaceX Crew Dragon arrived the International Space Station this Sunday, two new NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken are getting up to speed with space station systems and operations on their...

A new era of human spaceflights begins as for the first time in history, NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission successfully lifted off carrying astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday from...

Citing unfavourable weather conditions around Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA and SpaceX have scrubbed today’s historical launch attempt of the Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station...

As we are inching closer to the much-anticipated launch of the SpaceX Demo-2 mission from NASA’s historic Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, let’s give you a quick recap of...

Ahead of the May 27 launch of NASA’s SpaceX flight, the crew members have reported to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to start final preparations for liftoff. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas...

A former top astronaut from NASA has warned that a massive, extinction-casing asteroid impact with Earth "could happen." Leroy Chiao, the former International Space Station commander, has claimed that this "big disaster" could "of...