Embark on a Cosmic Journey: Your Name Aboard Europa Clipper
Earth’s first mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and its underground ocean launches on Oct. 6, 2024
Read MorePosted by David Raiklen | Dec 19, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |
Earth’s first mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and its underground ocean launches on Oct. 6, 2024
Read MorePosted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 10, 2023 | Obituaries, Space Exploration |
Colonel Frank Borman, USAF, commander of the NASA Apollo 8 mission in 1968 has died.
Read MorePosted by Susan Macdonald | Nov 5, 2023 | Obituaries, Space Exploration |
When an explosion crippled the spacecraft during its flight to the moon, Commander Mattingly—then the best trained man to fly the command module — went to work at Mission Control devising procedures that the astronauts used to help them return to the earth safely.
Read MorePosted by David Raiklen | Oct 12, 2023 | Blinded by Science, Space Exploration |
The OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and today NASA gave it’s first report on the intriguing space rock.
Read MorePosted by David Raiklen | Sep 25, 2023 | Space Exploration |
At 7:42AM Pacific yesterday Sunday morning, OSIRIS-REx entered Earth’s atmosphere at 27,000mph, bringing the largest sample of extraterrestrial material home since Apollo.
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