Are the effects of rocket launches on the atmosphere really negligible? Hybrid rocket motors such as those used in Virgin Galactic’s rocket planes emit a lot of soot. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic) Scientists worry that growing numbers of rocket flights and
The search for extraterrestrial technology is “daring to look through new telescopes.” Astronomers have announced a new venture designed to advance humankind’s search for artifacts from extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs) — The Galileo Project. The project aims to address the
It’s been part of the International Space Station for nearly 20 years. For nearly 20 years, Russia’s Pirs docking compartment served as one of the primary ports for vehicles arriving and departing from the International Space Station. On Monday (July 26),
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion of NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander to land astronauts on the moon. NASA in April awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX with a
It was Ingenuity’s highest flight yet, too. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown its first mile on the Red Planet. The small chopper surpassed the 1-mile (1.6 km) mark of its total flight distance on Saturday (July 24) when soared over a
Boeing and NASA are getting ready to make a second attempt at launching its Starliner astronaut taxi to the International Space Station. The uncrewed CST-100 Starliner space capsule is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 30 at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT),
Virgin Galactic’s flight test director and pilot Mark “Forger” Stucky parted ways with the company this week for unspecified reasons. Stucky announced his departure on LinkedIn, adding that he did not leave the space tourism company “on my own timeline.”
Nauka is Russia’s biggest International Space Station room yet. Russia’s largest space laboratory yet launched into orbit Wednesday (July 21) on a mission to expand the International Space Station after 14 years of delays. The Russian Multipurpose Research Module (MLM), also known
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It will travel for eight days to arrive at the ISS docking port Proton-M carrier rocket with the Nauka (Science) multipurpose laboratory module © Roscosmos Press Office/TASS BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, July 21. /TASS/. Russia’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module has successfully