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NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational flight with astronauts of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. This will be the start of regular missions to …
The Boeing Starliner crew capsule will fly a second time without astronauts after software problems and other issues caused the first test flight on 20 December 2019 to fail to reach the International Space Station. If the November, 2020 uncrewed …
On Saturday, May 30, SpaceXs Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragons second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida and today NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned …
NASA is targeting a July 30 launch for its Perserverance Mars mission. The Mars rover Perseverance was stacked atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 7. The Mars Perseverance rover will drill and collect core samples of …
The Solar Orbiter flew within 48 million miles of the Sun and took the closest pictures of the Sun to date. Other spacecraft have been closer, but none have carried Sun-facing imagers. Solar Orbiter carries six imaging instruments, each of …
NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push it to failure. Late in 2019, engineers at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tested NASA’s Space …
A meter-class telescope with a coronagraph to block solar light, placed in the strong interference region of the solar gravitational lens (SGL), is capable of imaging an exoplanet at a distance of up to 30 parsecs with a few 10 …
If we send telescopes out to 4 light days we can use the gravity of the sun to amplify the power of telescopes by 100 billion times. Although we can build larger telescopes with higher resolution than exists today near …
SpaceX could use the electric skateboard of the Cybertruck to build all the of vehicles that they need for a lunar mining operation. About twenty-five to thirty cybertrucks could be delivered to the moon with every SpaceX Starship. A lunar …
Astronauts Bob and Doug are successfully in orbit. There will be a series of adjustments to move them to the Space Station. Tomorrow they will dock with the space station. They will move through a series of checkpoints as they …