Launch of ULA Atlas V rocket scrubbed due to weather, next attempt set for Sunday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Due to weather conditions, the launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on Saturday has been scrubbed.
NASA plea: Stay home for 1st home astronaut launch in years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA and SpaceX on Friday urged everyone to stay home for the first home launch of astronauts in nearly a decade because of the coronavirus pandemic.Top officials warned the public against traveling to Florida for the May 27 launch of two NASA astronauts aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station.It will be the first launch of astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in nine years — ever since the last space shuttle flight in 2011.
NASA selects 3 companies to design, develop human landers to bring astronauts back to the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA announced on Thursday that they have selected three U.S. companies to design and develop systems to bring people to the moon.They said that Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX have been selected to build these human landers for NASA's Artemis program.
Record-breaking Arctic ozone hole closed itself up, and it may have nothing to do with lockdowns
NEW YORK -- A rare and very large hole that opened up in the ozone layer over the Arctic in early April has now healed itself, scientists say.According to the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS), it was an "unprecedented" hole and scientists announced its closure on Thursday.
SpaceX to launch another round of Starlink satellites into orbit Wednesday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Another 60 Starlink satellites are set to launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida.SpaceX is sending up a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites to provide global internet coverage from space.
Mercury-bound spacecraft buzzes Earth, beams back pictures
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its round-about path to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet.Launched 1 1/2 years ago, Europe and Japan’s Bepi-Colombo spacecraft passed within 8,000 miles (12,700 kilometers) of Earth.
Coronavirus lockdown results in 30 percent air pollution drop in northeastern US, NASA says
NEW YORK -- New York State is the worst hit in the U.S. by the coronavirus outbreak, with at least 161,807 cases and 7,067 deaths as of Friday morning.
SpaceX launches station supplies, nails 50th rocket landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched another load of station supplies for NASA late Friday night and nailed its 50th rocket landing.The Falcon rocket blasted off with 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of equipment and experiments for the International Space Station.
Mars lander confirms quakes, even aftershocks on red planet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.Scientists reported Monday that the seismometer from the InSight spacecraft has detected scores of marsquakes.A series of research papers focus on the 174 marsquakes noted through last September.
NASA's record-setting Koch, crewmates safely back from space
MOSCOW — NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who spent nearly 11 months in orbit to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed safely Thursday in Kazakhstan along with two International Space Station crewmates.The Soyuz capsule carrying Koch, station Commander Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 3:12 p.m. (0912 GMT).Koch wrapped up a 328-day mission after her first flight into space, providing researchers the opportunity to observe the effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman.
Spacewalking astronauts tackle final battery improvements
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled one last round of battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday.NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch floated out to finish the work they began last week.
NASA and NOAA report Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s
WASHINGTON — The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Boeing capsule launches to wrong orbit, skips space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing's new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.As the company scrambled to understand what happened, NASA canceled the Starliner's docking with the International Space Station, instead focusing on a hastier than planned return to Earth.
SpaceX delivers 'mighty mice,' worms, robot to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, dropping off super muscular “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot.The station commander, Italy's Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab onto the Dragon three days after its launch from Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX delays space station delivery due to high wind
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX has delayed its delivery to the International Space Station because of dangerous wind gusts.The Falcon 9 rocket came less than an hour from launching Wednesday.
Mini Mercury skips across sun's vast glare in rare transit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mini Mercury is skipping across the vast, glaring face of the sun in a rare celestial transit.Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and the sun on Monday.The eastern U.S. and Canada get the whole 5 ½-hour show, along with Central and South America.
NASA launches satellite to explore where air meets space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has launched a satellite to explore the mysterious, dynamic region where air meets space.The satellite — known as Icon, short for Ionospheric Connection Explorer — rocketed into orbit Thursday night.
NASA sets 1st all-female spacewalk after suit flap in spring
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a suit-sizing flap led to an embarrassing cancellation.NASA announced Friday that the International Space Station's two women will pair up for a spacewalk later this month.
NASA lander captures marsquakes, other Martian sounds
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's InSight lander on Mars has captured the low rumble of marsquakes and a symphony of otherworldly sounds.Scientists released an audio sampling Tuesday.
Can a new space race connect the world to the internet?
NEW YORK — It's a 21st-century space race: Amazon, SpaceX and others are competing to get into orbit and provide internet to the earth's most remote places.And like the last century's battle for space supremacy that was triggered by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, this one involves satellites.