April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... at large. With thousands more worlds left to uncover, NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler ...Neptune-sized planets,” added Armstrong. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends NASA’s TESS into space in April 2016. Best of the rest ...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
...and mission commander on STS-45 and STS-60 before becoming NASA Administrator from July 2009 to January 2017. Today he... you should do and another to actually bring yourself to do it. Is NASA going to let go of the Space Station in the same way? No,...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... could establish the US as the world’s leading space power. NASA ramped up its activities to deliver on the President’s commitment, and...the upper stages of a space rocket. Now leading NASA’s rocket developments, Wernher von Braun pushed forward with ...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
...develop their own human spaceflight systems. Then in 2014 NASA announced that Boeing and SpaceX would share $6.8 billion...pioneering ISS crew. Additional team members will be assigned by NASA’s international partners at a later date. The agency has ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...side of the Moon into a giant radio telescope. NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is a ... successful applicants is Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotics technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Bandyopadhyay’s idea is...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
... will join the Artemis Accords in due time. NASA announced its intention to establish the Accords earlier this...principles that will preserve peace,” said Mike Gold, NASA acting associate administrator for international and interagency relations. ...
