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by Tim Clary COLUMBUS, United States (AFP) — John Glenn, who made history twice as the first American to orbit the Earth and the first senior citizen to venture into space, died Thursday at the age of 95. The US space agency NASA was among the first to pay tribute to the legendary astronaut who went on to serve in the Senate for more than two decades, calling him “a true American hero.” “Godspeed, John […]
by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — An unmanned cargo ship travelling to the International Space Station burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch on Thursday, Russia’s space agency said. “According to preliminary information, as a result of an abnormal situation, the cargo ship’s loss occurred some 190 kilometers (110 miles) above the remote, unpopulated mountainous territory of (Russia’s) Tuva region, and most fragments burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere,” Roscosmos said […]
Reuters — Images from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) Mission have revealed an ultraviolet, previously unseen, view of Mars. The video was uploaded to social media on Monday (October 17) and shows several images taken by the mission camera. The images were taken between July 9-10, 2016 and show the rapid movement of cloud formation over Mars. Nick Schneider, of the University of Colorado, told Reuters that the ultraviolet colours of the planet […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Orbital ATK is poised to launch an Antares rocket Monday for the first time since a massive explosion after liftoff two years ago en route to the International Space Station. The new Antares 230 rocket aims to propel an unmanned cargo capsule, called Cygnus, to the orbiting outpost carrying 5,290 pounds (2,400 kilograms) of supplies, food and science experiments. The launch is scheduled at 7:40 pm (2340 […]
(AFP) The European Space Agency hopes that technologies tested during its ExoMars programme could pave the way for a return mission to the Red planet in the 2020s, as well as establish if Mars ever harboured life. A brief history of Mars exploration in videographics. JONATHAN RENAUD DE LA FAVERIE KATHERINE LEVY SPENCER / AFP VIDEOGRAPHICS / AFP In the 20th century US-USSR “Space Race”, NASA was the first to make it to Mars. In […]
Miami, United States (AFP) by Kerry SHERIDAN There’s something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teased a “surprising” announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean, even possibly some form of life. The US space agency has already proclaimed that Europa has “strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its crust and […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveiled plans Monday for a massive rocket called New Glenn designed to launch people to space and propel satellites into orbit, raising the ante in the US commercial space industry. Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, said the rocket has been in the works for the past four years, and will be launched by decade’s end. At 270 feet (82 meters) high for the two-stage […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Monotony was the hardest part of a yearlong NASA experiment about the mental and psychological rigors of longterm spaceflight, crew members said after the test ended. The six-member crew emerged Sunday from a dome in Hawaii, on the barren northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano, where they were studied as part of the US space agency’s mission to send people to Mars by the 2030s. On Monday, US […]
NASA engineers successfully conducted the second to last splashdown tests with the Orion spacecraft on Thursday (August 25) bringing the agency one step closer to its goal of eventually carrying humans to Mars. The test, conducted at the Langley facility in Hampton, Virginia was designed to simulate one of the Orion spacecraft’s most stressful landing scenarios with crash test dummies inside, a case where one of the capsule’s three main parachutes fails to deploy. […]
(REUTERS) Record-breaking warm temperatures in the first half of 2016 have primed the Arctic for another summer of low sea ice cover, said NASA on Friday (August 19). “Globally it’s been the warmest year on record,” said NASA scientist Walt Meier from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland “That’s resulted in an earlier melt of the Arctic sea ice and an opening of the ocean. And so we’re on track for one of […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry SHERIDAN With more private spaceship traffic expected at the International Space Station in the coming years, two spacewalking US astronauts installed a special parking spot for them on Friday. Americans Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins floated outside the orbiting laboratory for a spacewalk lasting five hours and 58 minutes to attach the first of two international docking adaptors. The astronauts spent more than two hours tying down the adaptor, after […]
REUTERS — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrated a historical milestone on Wednesday (July 20): the 40th anniversary of the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars. On July 20, 1976, NASA successfully reached the Martian surface with their Viking Lander 1. The Viking project – comprised of two separate spacecraft – together took more than 65,000 images of the planet and collected overwhelming amounts of data. The primary goal of the Viking mission […]
