NASA spacecraft documents how Jupiter’s lightning resembles Earth’s
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hidden below the brownish ammonia clouds blanketing Jupiter are clouds that like on Earth are made of water. And like on Earth, lightning often…
Bezos’ Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A team led by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and…
Airplane Χ-59 Nasa with Quiet Supersonic Technology’s (QueSST)
Supersonics passenger jets Airplane Χ-59: Only two mass-produced supersonic passenger aircraft are known to perform regular flights: the Soviet Tu-144, which made its first flight on December 31, 1968, and…
NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA is exploring whether SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Station…
NASA to conduct first global water survey from space
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct…
NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around…
Nasa will 3D print human body parts in Space
3D printed human body parts? Not a novelty on Earth but definitely something futuristic for Space. Yes, because Nasa, Redwire and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Center…
Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
NASA instrument detects dozens of methane super-emitters from space
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An orbital NASA instrument designed mainly to advance studies of airborne dust and its effects on climate change has proven adept at another…
NASA, SpaceX to study ways to boost orbit of Hubble telescop
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to fund a study with NASA to examine ways to use the space company’s Dragon capsule to raise the Hubble Space…