Earlier this year the The peace of a Florida neighborhood was disturbed when a piece of junk from the international space station crashed through a house. This was followed in May by a 90-pound piece of a SpaceX Dragon ship crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: are space agencies doing … Read more
For many astronauts, spacewalking is the ultimate ambition, but only the elite are qualified to do it. And Cady Coleman—who spent six months on the International Space Station in 2010—is quick to point out that it is NOTHING like Sandra Bullock’s glamorous performance in Gravity. Coleman gave the actress in the film advice on how … Read more
NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above Earth. But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean aliens are about to strike. Using an imaging instrument called Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts discovered strange X and C shapes, appearing at surprising times in the most surprising places. The researchers found that … Read more
Media accreditation is open for the next launch to bring NASA science research, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. This launch will be the 21st Northrop Grumman commercial resupply mission to the orbital laboratory for the agency and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA, Northrop Grumman and SpaceX aim to … Read more
A piece of metal found on a remote trail at a luxury camping resort in North Carolina was from a SpaceX Dragon capsule, NASA said, confirming that the mysterious object was yet another piece of space junk that recently landed on Earth. The debris came from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had reentered Earth’s atmosphere … Read more
In the coming days or weeks, the star T Coronae Borealis or Blaze Star is expected to be visible in the night sky. The appearance of a stellar explosion will be brief and bright, but it’s a sight enthusiasts won’t want to miss. As a binary system, T Coronae Borealis or T CrB is not … Read more
If you ever want to take a walk into deep space, this may be as close as you get. In this stunning animation, NASA lets viewers wander through the trunks of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ in a nebula 6,500 light-years from Earth. This is the most detailed and comprehensive video ever taken of these star … Read more
WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are exploring how to adjust the Dragon spacecraft’s reentry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s fuselage that reaches the ground. On several occasions, debris from fuselage parts of the Dragon spacecraft, which were ejected from the capsule before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been … Read more
Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the first crew of Boeing’s Starliner, are stranded on the ISS. What happens now? ADVERTISEMENT The two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) with no return date likely have “a big smile on their faces and are happy to be there,” said former French astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy. … Read more
NASA officials said that despite an indefinite delay in their return to Earth, the Boeing Starliner crew stuck on the International Space Station due to mechanical problems with their spacecraft are not “stranded” in space. Starliner commander Butch Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams have been cooped up in the space station for weeks following their … Read more