Archive for the 'Space' Category
China Lands Spacecraft on Mars
May 14th, 2021Via: Reuters: An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, “leaving a Chinese footprint […]
1952 Novel by Wernher von Braun: Mars Ruled by Elon
May 7th, 2021Via: The Sun: ELON Musk’s plot to colonise other worlds may have been predicted by a German scientist 70 years ago. Writing in his 1952 science fiction novel “Project Mars”, engineer Wernher von Braun described a man called “Elon” who ruled over the Red Planet. One passage of the book – a fantasy blueprint for […]
SpaceX Successfully Lands Starship Rocket
May 6th, 2021Via: PhysOrg: SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts.
“We can’t do a thing to stop UFOs – it could be America’s biggest spy failure since 9/11, warns ex-Pentagon investigator”
April 30th, 2021Tell me another one, Lou. Let me guess… Lockheed Martin, et al. will need a few trillion more dollars to deal with the, “Threat.” Via: The Sun: “There is something in our skies, we don’t know what it is, we don’t know how it works, we don’t know fully what it can do, we don’t […]
NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere
April 22nd, 2021Via: NPR: After making the first powered flight on another world, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts by making breathable oxygen out of the wispy Martian air. NASA announced that an instrument aboard the rover had successfully extracted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Successfully Hovered for 40 Seconds in Mars’s Thin Atmosphere
April 20th, 2021Via: Scientific American: NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 40-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation. “We can now say that human beings have […]
SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion NASA Moon Lander Contract
April 17th, 2021Via: Reuters: NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics Inc.
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
March 16th, 2021Via: ScienceAlert: Researchers from the United States and India working with NASA have now discovered four strains of bacteria living in different places in the ISS – three of which were, until now, completely unknown to science. … All four of the strains belong to a family of bacteria found in soil and freshwater; they […]
China, Russia Announce Plan To Build Moon Research Station
March 10th, 2021Via: NPR: China and Russia have announced plans to work together to construct a lunar research station, an ambitious first-ever such space project between the two countries. Russia’s Roscosmos and China’s National Space Administration – the two countries’ respective equivalents of NASA – announced a preliminary agreement on Tuesday to jointly develop the research facility, […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Starship Prototype… Then It Exploded
March 4th, 2021Via: Space Flight Now: The latest prototype of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle — Starship SN10 — took off from the company’s South Texas test site and flew to an altitude of more than 30,000 feet Wednesday, then descended to a controlled vertical landing after two previous test vehicles crashed at touchdown. Minutes later, the 16-story […]
