02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
...” the ends of chromosomes against deterioration. These typically decrease in length as a person ages. However, Susan Bailey of Colorado State University and her team who studied Scott’s telomeres reported that his significantly increased in average...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... always seems to be present," said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and lead author of the new study published in Nature Geoscience. "The presence of water doesn't appear to depend...
06 June 2018
New Horizons wakes up ready for next flyby
... mission’s next achievement,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “Since this will be the farthest exploration of any object in space in history, I like to call our flyby target...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... Hall thruster, increasing overall mission efficiency and flexibility. United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. (ULA) in Centennial, Colorado, 3 projects, $10 million, $2 million, and $1.9 million respectively “Integrated Vehicle Fluids Flight Demonstration...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
... — 4 billion miles from the Sun," said Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "The data we have look fantastic and we're already learning about Ultima from up close. The probe has...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
...certified. ULA and Sierra Nevada Corp jointly unveiled an agreement on 14 August in a publicity briefing at the Louisville, Colorado, headquarters of SNC's Space Systems division: the Vulcan Centaur is contracted to launch SNC's privately-owned Dream...
