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Tag Archives: Spaceflight

29Sep/17

Musk shrinks ‘Big F***ing Rocket,’ claims 2024 Mars mission

September 29, 2017SpaceBusiness, Company: Space Explrtn, Economy, Elon Musk, Falcon Heavy, Hawthorne California, Hyperloop, Interplanetary Transport System, ITS launch vehicle, Space tourism, Spaceflight, SpaceX, SpaceX launch facilitiessmbale

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claims his company will land a person on the red planet at least a decade earlier than NASA, and has downsized the plans for its “BFR” rocket vehicle in an effort to cut costs. Matthew Larotonda reports. Continue reading →

28Sep/17

Scientists complete 8-month isolation mission simulating life on Mars

September 28, 2017SpaceAstrobiology, Astronomy, Environment, Exploration of Mars, HI-SEAS mission, Human mission to Mars, Life on Mars, Mars, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Outer space, Spaceflight, Technology/Internetsmbale

A team of scientists have finally returned to civilization after completing a NASA-funded isolation experiment to simulate life on Mars. Continue reading →

27Sep/17

NASA gives sneak peek of ‘mission to touch the sun’

September 27, 2017SpaceCity: Laurel, Environment, Eugene Parker, Laurel Maryland, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New Horizons, Nicky Fox, Outer space, Parker Solar Probe, Plasma physics, Solar Probe's mission, Space plasmas, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, Sun, Technology/Internet, Washington metropolitan areasmbale

LAUREL, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 25, 2017) (REUTERS) – Scientists unveiled the Parker Solar Probe at a laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, on Monday (September 25), where the spacecraft is being prepared to make an unprecedented plunge into the sun’s atmosphere. Continue reading →

03Sep/17

Record-breaking U.S. astronaut and crew back on Earth

September 3, 2017SpaceAquanauts, Astronaut, Human spaceflight, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Peggy Whitson, Spaceflightsmbale

IN SPACE (SEPTEMBER 2, 2017) (NASA TV) – NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two crewmates made a parachute touchdown in Kazakhstan on Sunday (September 3), capping a career-total 665 days in orbit, a U.S. record. Continue reading →

22Aug/17

NASA reports massive asteroid to pass by Earth on September 1

August 22, 2017Uncategorized99942 Apophis, Asteroid, Asteroid-impact avoidance, Asteroids, Environment, Florence Nightingale, Moon, Outer space, Planetary science, Space, Spaceflight, Technology/Internetsmbale

A 3 mile-wide asteroid will drift past Earth more than 18 moon-lengths away, making it the largest to do so since researchers began tracking such close encounters. Continue reading →

26Jul/17

NASA astronaut captures aurora space spectacle

July 26, 2017SpaceAstronaut, Aurora, Company: AUDIONETWORK MUSIC, Company: Borealis, Electromagnetism, Environment, Jack D. Fischer, Jack Fischer, NASA, NASA Astronaut Corps, Outer space, Spaceflight, Technology/Internetsmbale

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer has shared stunning time-lapse images of the aurora borealis he captured from the International Space Station on June 26 and shared on Sunday. Continue reading →

07May/17

Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, 2-year mission

May 7, 2017Spaceair force, Boeing X-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Mojave Air and Space Port, NASA, National Register of Historic Places in Brevard County Florida, Politics, Robert D. Cabana, Rocket-powered aircraft, Rocketry, Spaceflight, Spaceplanessmbale

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (MAY 07, 2017) (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE) – The U.S. military’s experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday (May 7) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said.
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01May/17

SpaceX launches rocket with classified U.S. spy satellite

May 1, 2017SpaceCompany: Space Exploratio, Draft:List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches, Falcon, Falcon 9, Greater Los Angeles Area, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, SpaceX, SpaceX launch facilitiessmbale

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Continue reading →

30Mar/17

NASA Mars satellite moves to avoid hitting planet’s moon

March 30, 2017SpaceDisaster/Accident, Environment, Exploration of Jupiter, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Natural satellite, Outer space, Planet, Planetary science, Satellite, Satellite system, Spacecraft, Spaceflightsmbale

NASA satellite orbiting Mars fires its engine to avoid collision with one of the planet’s two small moons.
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21Mar/17

World’s first space-exposed mango cells survive

March 21, 2017SpaceCompany: CCTV, Country: China, Environment, Hainan, Human spaceflight, Shenzhou, Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou program, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, Tiangong program, Tiangong-1smbale

China Central Television (CCTV) – The mango embryos that spent 33 days orbiting the Earth on the China’s Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft have survived and grew brand new cells at a lab in south China’s Hainan Province.
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