News Archive / Tagged: NASA

• Who needs the Guardians of the Galaxy when we have OSIRIS-REx?

  Cullen DesforgesDecember 10th, 2018

  Last week, a spacecraft arrived at one of the smallest objects ever visited by a NASA mission after a multi-billion mile journey around the Solar System.

• CRS-16 Dragon arrives at ISS after ground-based communications issue

  Derek RichardsonDecember 8th, 2018

  SpaceX’s CRS-16 Dragon was captured by the space station crew, despite a communications issue prompting a temporary retreat command being issued.

• Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 Crew Module delivered to KSC

  Jason RhianDecember 7th, 2018

  The Crew Module of NASA's Orion spacecraft has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center located in Florida. Its journey began at Johnson Space Center and will be used to further the agency's deep space exploration ambitions.

• There (almost) and back again: Crew of aborted Soyuz mission reassigned

  Heather SmithDecember 6th, 2018

  NASA has announced that Nick Hague will join Aleksey Ovchinin again for a launch on Feb 28, 2019, after their mission was aborted in October 2018.

• CRS-16 Falcon 9 first stage makes unplanned water landing

  Michael ColeDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After 26 straight successful landings of its Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX experienced a landing failure amidst an otherwise successful launch to orbit of the CRS-16 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). 

• With mice well-fed, SpaceX’s CRS-16 mission blasts off but fails to stick landing

  Michael ColeDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- Partly cloudy skies along Florida's Space Coast provided a beautiful backdrop for the SpaceX launch of the CRS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). While a success, not everything went according to plan.

• Watch exclusive live coverage of CRS-16 launch

  Jason RhianDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX and NASA have a Falcon 9 rocket primed and ready for flight. The mission - to send the CRS-16 Dragon to the International Space Station. SpaceFlight Insider's exclusive webcast will begin at 12:45 p.m. ET (17:45 GMT).

• Rats! SpaceX CRS-16 mission slips again!

  Michael ColeDecember 4th, 2018

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- SpaceX has encountered more than its fair share of scrubs, but the one that pushed the planned flight of the CRS-16 mission back 24 hours - is a doozy.

• Opportunity: All’s quiet on the Martian front…

  Jim SharkeyDecember 4th, 2018

  While the Martian skies have cleared of the dust that enveloped much of the Red Planet, NASA's Opportunity rover remains silent in Perseverance Valley. The rover was last heard from on June 10, 2018. As of November 27, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had sent 359 recovery commands in a effort to wake the rover.

• SpaceX set to launch CRS-16 Dragon to ISS

  Michael ColeDecember 1st, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Elon Musk might not be Santa Claus, but the Expedition 57 crew on board the ISS might consider him to be after the CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft arrives.

• NASA Administrator reveals new commercial plan to explore the Moon

  Jason RhianNovember 29th, 2018

  NASA is working with commercial partners in an effort to produce a lunar transport "market," one designed to further enable scientific exploration of the Moon.

• Eternal Ice Age: Unusual ridges near Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia formed by ancient glaciers

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 28th, 2018

  Oddly-shaped ridges located adjacent to Pluto's Sputnik Planitia were created by ancient nitrogen ice glaciers, according to a group of scientists led by the SETI Institute's Oliver White.

• JPL’s Lucky Nuts work! InSight lander safely touches down on Mars

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 26th, 2018

  After traveling some 33.9 million miles (54.6 million kilometers), NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) robotic lander safely touched down on the surface of Mars at the Elysium Planitia region at 2:52 p.m. EST (11:52 a.m. PST / 19:53 GMT) today, Monday, Nov. 26.

• Has a drug-resistant disease been discovered on the International Space Station?

  Jason RhianNovember 23rd, 2018

  On orbit for 20 years, the ISS has become a beacon for ventures beyond the safety of our home world and an example of how humanity can work as one. This icon appears to be generating something else - drug resistant diseases.

• Launch date for SpaceX’s Demo-1 flight announced

  Jason RhianNovember 21st, 2018

  A launch date for the first test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft has been announced and the company's BFR rocket has gained a new name.