NASA's X-59 aircraft, unveiled in January 2024,
hopes to change the way we travel. The innovative
plane is designed to fly at supersonic speeds
without producing the characteristic sonic boom.
The prototype is part of the US Space Agency's
Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) mission....
Read news articleA week after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket, the
uncrewed Odysseus spacecraft gently landed near
the Moon's south pole at 6:32 pm ET on February
22, 2024. The 14-foot-tall (4.3 meters) lander was
developed and flown by Texas-based Intuitive
Machines. It is the first privately-built spacecraft to
make a moon landing. More significantly, Odysseu......
Read news articleFrank Rubio has inadvertently set a new record for
the longest time in space by an American. The NASA
astronaut who returned to Earth on September 23,
2023, was supposed to have been at the
International Space Station (ISS) for 180 days.
Instead, he was stuck there for 371 days. Rubio's
time in space surpasses Mark Vande Hei's US spac......
Read news articleNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully sent
asteroid Bennu's samples to Earth on September 24,
2023. The capsule, carrying the rocks and dust,
entered Earth's atmosphere around 10:42 AM EDT
(7:42 AM PT). Soon after, it made a picture-perfect
landing on the sandy floor of the Utah desert....
Read news articleOn May 20, 2023, The Lego Group successfully
launched 1,000 minifigures into space. The tiny
astronauts made the journey aboard roofless
3D-printed space shuttles. The lightweight vehicles
were built by a team of space architects and
engineers from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The
purpose of the mission was to encourage kids to fo......
Read news articleEarlier this year, Saturn lost its long-standing status
as "moon king" to Jupiter after 12 new moons were
added to the gas giant's 83 known satellites. But
Jupiter's victory was short-lived. The ringed planet
has reclaimed the title with the discovery of 62
additional moons. Saturn now boasts 145 known
moons and is the first and only planet in the solar ......
Read news articleThe SpaceX Starship's debut flight launch on April
20, 2023, was both flawless and spectacular. The
394-foot-tall (120-meter) rocket — the biggest and
most powerful ever built — fired up its 33 engines
and soared into the skies at 9:33 a.m. EDT. The
uncrewed spacecraft was expected to complete a
90-minute trip around the Earth before splashing ......
Read news articleNASA's successful Artemis 1 Moon mission paved
the way for Artemis 2 — the second of three
missions to land humans on the Moon again. The
Artemis 2 crew will not step foot on the lunar
surface. But they will be the first humans to fly close
to the Moon in over 50 years. On April 3, 2023,
NASA officials announced the four astronauts selec......
Read news articleAfter a decade of exploring the surface of the Red
Planet, the Curiosity rover has recently been looking
up. On February 2, 2023, the NASA rover captured a
stunning sunset on Mars. The image shows rays of
sunlight stretching across the horizon, lighting up a
mass of clouds....
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