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Hubble Space Telescope Hit with Computer Trouble, Halting Science Work

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 17, 2021 2 Comments

Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer ...

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NASA Plans to Launch First American Mission to Venus Since 1989

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 04, 2021 17 Comments

The space race has heated up in a big way. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced plans to send two new spacecraft to study Venus as the first U.S. missions to the hell-scape planet since 1989.

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NASA Slams China as Out-of-Control Rocket Splashes Into Indian Ocean

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 10, 2021 21 Comments

This weekend, I joined thousands of others on social media tracking the out-of-control Chinese rocket on its way back to Earth this weekend.

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SpaceX Starship SN15 Sticks the Landing After High-Altitude Test Flight

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 06, 2021 21 Comments

There has been much good news recently related to the American space program. First, I reviewed the successful tests run on Mars by the Perseverance rover's Ingenuity helicopter and oxygen-generation unit (MOXIE).

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NASA Tells Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Stop Work on Lunar Landing After Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origins Protested Contract

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 03, 2021 27 Comments

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suspended its contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the landing system to take astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

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NASA Extends Ingenuity Helicopter Missions After Four Successful Flights on Mars

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 03, 2021 8 Comments

When America's latest Mars mission landed in February, I noted the rover Perseverance came with two important units: The Ingenuity helicopter and the MOXIE oxygen generation system.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Lands on Mars

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 19, 2021 25 Comments

NASA’s newest robotic explorer, Perseverance, landed successfully on Mars, concluding a nearly 300-million-mile journey and initiating a new research era on the Red Planet.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule Docks at International Space Station With Crew of Four

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 18, 2020 7 Comments

In May of this year, a SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule took two astronauts to the International Space Station. Now, in another first, a capsule has delivered a crew of four astronauts to the ISS.

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U.S. Space Force Will Soon Have Its First ‘Out-of-This-World’ Service Member

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 02, 2020 7 Comments

During President Donald Trump's many rallies, his mention of the new U.S. Space Force always brings a loud round of cheers.

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Seven Nations Join U.S. in Signing “Artemis Accords” for Moon Missions

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 20, 2020 12 Comments

This week, seven nations and the United States have signed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)  new framework to govern lunar exploration missions.

By signing the agreement, the eight nations commit to peaceful activities on the moon and in travel to the moon.

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The latest “race to the Moon” may really be a race for rare earth metals

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 28, 2020 28 Comments

While the country was focused on the coronavirus pandemic in early April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing U.S. policy on the the mining of off-Earth resources.

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SpaceX makes historic launch of NASA astronauts, leaving pandemic and riots behind

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 30, 2020 23 Comments

In a rare bit of good news coming out in 2020, SpaceX launched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft.

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NASA emails reveal a very near-miss from a “city-killer” asteroid

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 29, 2019 33 Comments

Climate change prodigy Greta Thunberg spent the better portion of a week recounting her fears of mass extinction to the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.

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NASA investigating first allegation of criminal activity in orbit

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 25, 2019 37 Comments

It is being reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is investigating an allegation that an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse, which looks to be the first allegation of criminal activity from space.

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Five “Woke” Takes on Moonwalk 50th Anniversary

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 21, 2019 53 Comments

Professor Jacobson shared his boyhood memories of the first time a man walked on the moon, and he spoke of how moving that was and remains.  Indeed, across the nation, the majority of Americans feel the same way about a defining moment in our shared history.

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Apollo 11: New Documentary Captures America’s First Journey to the Moon

Posted by Tyler Hummel on July 21, 2019 5 Comments

Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing. As bittersweet as it is that it's been almost as long since the last of our six moon landings finished in 1972, there's never been a better time to be a space fanatic. Elon Musk's work at SpaceX is currently driving the space race as commercial space flight looms ever closer with the first commercial spaceflight set for 2021.

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America was Great: 50 years ago, men walked on the moon for the first time

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2019 27 Comments

It still sends chills up my spine. At 21:56:15 p.m. Eastern Standard on this date 50 years ago, men walked on the moon for the first time.

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Trump Administration targets 2024 for next moon mission

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 07, 2019 22 Comments

After returning the priorities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration back to aeronautics and space, the Trump Administration is targeting 2024 as the year that the U.S. will launch its next mission to the moon.

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