AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatar6 days agoSpace Station Crew Captures Stunning View of the Eclipse from Spaceverified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Cassidy WardThe crew aboard the ISS captures a unique view of the Moon's shadow from orbit. The documentary The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station pretty …
AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatarAtomos Space’s first mission on orbit is a trial by fireverified_publisherTechCrunch - Aria AlamalhodaeiFew missions more acutely embody the maxim “space is hard” than Atomos Space’s first demonstration mission, which the company has managed to pull back from the brink of disaster — more than once. That demonstration mission, dubbed Mission-1, launched to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 4. …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSpaceX Is Scrapping 100 Starlink Satellites: Here's Whyslashgear.com - Dave McQuillingSpaceX is planning to dump 100 of its Starlink satellites out of orbit in response to what it calls a "common issue" that could "increase the …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoJapan moon lander enters lunar orbitphys.orgJapan's SLIM space probe entered the moon's orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country's first successful lunar landing, expected next month. …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA View Through Skylab - NASAnasa.govNASA / William R. Pogue Astronaut William R. Pogue, Skylab 4 pilot, recorded this wide scene of his crewmates, astronauts Edward G. Gibson (left), …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCosmic blast seared Earth’s atmosphere from 2 billion light-years awayscience.org - Daniel CleryOn 9 October 2022, for 7 minutes, high energy photons from a gigantic explosion 1.9 billion light-years away toasted one side of Earth as never …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSupervolcano leads to hidden ocean beneath the surface of Plutothebrighterside.news - JJ ShavitEven after nearly ten years since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft paid its historic visit to Pluto, the distant dwarf planet never ceases to amaze us …
AvatarMike McCueFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoArtemis 2 moon astronaut says crew is ready for ambitious 2024 missionspace.com - By Elizabeth Howell"I think everybody feels like they're part of the winning team." Seven months of moon mission training is bringing spaceflight "much closer than it's …
AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatarHumans Are Ready to Find Alien Lifeverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Adam FrankWe finally have the tools we need. Now scientists just need to watch and wait. In the thousands of years that people have been arguing about whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, one thing has been constant: No one really has had a clue. But not anymore. That’s because we finally know …
AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatarWild Experiment Shows How Lasers Could Be Used to Build Moon Roadsverified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle StarrDriving around on the Moon is not, one could say, the safest possible ride. It's not the bumpiness that's so much an issue. It's the powder-fine dust. …
AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatarNorthrop Grumman likely to end its bid for a commercial space stationverified_publisherArs Technica - Eric BergerNASA has a lot riding on these initiatives. Nearly two years ago, NASA placed its bets to develop commercial space stations on four companies—Blue …
AvatarMike McCueAvatarAvatarAsteroid ‘dust, debris’ likely found as returned NASA space capsule openedverified_publisherAl JazeeraDark powder, sand-sized particles found as lid opened on Osiris-REx space probe which collected samples from asteroid. Scientists at the United States space agency NASA found “black dust and debris” when they opened the space capsule that recently returned to Earth with the largest asteroid sample …