Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut splashed to Earth early Friday, Oct. 25, after a nearly eight-month science mission at the International Space Station (ISS).
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX and NASA on Sunday successfully launched their joint Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Launch site LSP; Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome Remarks March (TBD) [1] SLS Block 1B Kennedy LC-39B: NASA: Artemis 6: NASA: Selenocentric Crewed lunar landing Crew and Science Airlock Module: MBRSC: Selenocentric Lunar Gateway component June (TBD) [31] TBA: TBA: TBA: VERITAS: NASA: Cytherocentric: Venus orbiter
A NASA astronaut on her inaugural spaceflight and two cosmonauts launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft toward the International Space Station Friday, marking the first time Russia has ...
NASA compares the required accuracy by analogy: "If the Webb primary mirror were the size of the United States, each [mirror] segment would be the size of Texas, and the team would need to line the height of those Texas-sized segments up with each other to an accuracy of about 1.5 inches". [62] James Webb Space Telescope Mirror alignment animations
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as Roman or the Roman Space Telescope, and formerly the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope or WFIRST) is a NASA infrared space telescope in development and scheduled to launch to a Sun–Earth L 2 orbit by May 2027. [5] It is named after former NASA Chief of Astronomy Nancy Grace Roman.
SpaceX is set to launch two crew members to the space station in a capsule that will eventually bring home the NASA astronauts who flew on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
Other national-level scientific space missions included NASA's Europa Clipper probe to Europa, and ESA's Hera probes both launched in October 2024. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars ended operation in January due to reported damages to its rotor blades subsequently after its 72nd flight. This year also saw multiple lunar landing attempts.