NASA Orbiter Locks into Lunar Orbit
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) achieved lunar orbit on Oct. 6. Thanks to two High Performance Apogee Thruster HiPAT phasing burns, each of the blasts by the Aerojet Rocketdyne bipropellant engine increased the spacecraft’s apogee...Moon Photos Show Lander Blast Zones
Newly noted research in the pages of the scientific journal, Icarus, a team of scientists have spotlighted the impact of past rocket exhaust upon the lunar landscape. The paper, quite literally, kicks up some dust! Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera...Orbital Becomes 2nd U. S. Company to Reach International Space Station with Resupply Capsule
Orbital Sciences unpiloted Cygnus capsule successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station early Sunday, signaling the Dulles, Va., firm is prepared to shoulder future re-supply responsibilities for the six person orbiting laboratory. Astronauts Luca...Attention Plutoites! ET Message Board Eyed
A New Horizons Message Initiative is underway in the hopes of persuading NASA to upload a crowd-sourced message to the New Horizons probe that’s now outbound to Pluto. Based on bandwidth and the spacecraft’s onboard computers, the intent is to send pictures and sounds...U.S., Russian Astronauts Reach International Space Station
A Soyuz capsule with three U. S. and Russian astronauts docked with the International Space Station late Wednesday to restore the orbiting science lab to its usual six person status. NASA’s Mike Hopkins, a one time college football team captain; cosmonaut Oleg...New Pieces Found of Russian Fireball
The famous February 15th meteorite that exploded over the frozen Chebarkul Lake in Russia is making news once again. Fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite have been discovered and recovered from the bottom of the lake. Early this month, divers and scientists teamed...Orbital Re-plans for Cygnus Rendezvous with the International Space Station
Plans by Orbital Sciences Corp. and NASA to rendezvous Orbital’s Cygnus cargo capsule with the International Space Station early Sunday were delayed by two days to overcome a navigation communications discrepancy between the two spacecraft. Orbital quickly...Book Review: Rocket Girl – The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan; Prometheus Books; Amherst, New York; $18.00 (soft cover); July 2013. No doubt, many have been absorbed by Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys (also known as October...Expect Earthly Dividends from Future Exploration
Expect more on Earth from space as human explorers begin to push beyond the International Space Station to the moon, the asteroids and Mars, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group suggests in a new 21 page white paper, Benefits Stemming from...Space Talk
;
#BlueOrigin is eyeing the launch of an uncrewed lander to the Moon within the next 12–16 months. The launch is to demonstrate #MK1's capabilities, which include the ability to deliver up to three tons of payload anywhere on the #Moon.
https://bit.ly/49YOLPC (📷: Blue Origin)
.@NASAWebb is providing new scientific insight into how stars and their protoplanetary disks form planets. The #JWST recently observed a system that just finished forming its planets.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/49Hko0r #SpaceExploration
#NASA's latest class of #astronaut candidates has graduated and is now eligible for missions to the Moon, Mars, and the @Space_Station. The agency is also accepting applications for a new class of astronauts.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bWYvvP #BeAnAstronaut
The @NASA astronaut selection window is open! #ArtemisGeneration #BeAnAstronaut