UPDATE: SpaceX scrubbed the launch, citing a frozen pressurization valve. The company said it will wait at least 48 hours before making another launch attempt. ---------------------------------------- The wait is over! SpaceX's colossal Starship and Super Heavy booster are set to launch today at 9 a.m. EDT from Starbase in...
Researchers at the University of Florida have managed to grow plants [https://news.ufl.edu/2022/05/lunar-plants/] in soil obtained from the Moon for the first time. They used samples collected in the Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions. * They received a mere 12 grams of lunar regolith out...
NASA is one giant step closer to getting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fully operational. The agency successfully unfolded JWST’s final gold-coated mirror wing on Saturday, ending its two-week-long deployments of 50 major features and one of the riskiest and most challenging maneuvers in space. The mission crew...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has made history by flying into the Sun’s corona (upper atmosphere), making it the first time humanity has ‘touched’ the sun. Three years after its launch in 2018 and after five Venus flybys, the spacecraft actually accomplished this feat in April, but it took...
NASA has released the first-ever audio recording taken on the surface of Mars via one of the two microphones of its Perseverance rover. Ten seconds into the linked [https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25629/nasas-perseverance-rover-microphone-captures-sounds-from-mars/] filtered audio recording (without rover noise), you can hear a Martian breeze. This is the...
NASA is handing out Fitbit devices to 1,000 employees, including 150 astronauts, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 across its facilities. The wrist devices can track several key health metrics like body temperature and resting heart rate, which can help NASA detect a potential outbreak before symptoms emerge. Insiders:...
