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NASA may soon launch a mission to Uranus! New discoveries beckon
NASA may soon make the Uranus mission a priority in the next decade. Here’s why. Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of hydrogen, helium, and …
Scientists want to probe Uranus with a flagship mission by 2032
Looks like we can’t ignore the mysterious depths of Uranus any longer. A group of planetary scientists throughout the United States agrees that it’s time to send an interplanetary probe to study the gas giant Uranus, arguing that a launch between 2023 and 2032 “is viable on currently available launch vehicles,” according to a new …
NASA to Discuss Status of Artemis I Moon Mission
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 18, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar …
NASA ready for Ax-1 return and Crew-4 launch
WASHINGTON — NASA says it’s gearing up for a rapid-fire series of events on the International Space Station that includes the return of a private astronaut mission and the launch of a new long-duration crew of American and European astronauts. NASA announced April 15 that Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission to the station, which launched April …
NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei Discusses Record-Breaking Spaceflight and Russian Crewmates
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is seen outside the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after he landed with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Vande Hei and Dubrov are returning to Earth after logging 355 days in space as members of …
NASA to delay, modify SLS countdown rehearsal
WASHINGTON — After discovering a problem with a valve on the Space Launch System’s upper stage, NASA is delaying a countdown rehearsal and fueling test and modifying it to limit fueling of the upper stage. NASA said in an April 9 blog post that it was delaying the wet dress rehearsal (WDR) for the SLS …
NASA Will be Testing SLS Over the Weekend
The Space Launch System (SLS) has just one more hurdle to clear before this summer’s historic launch. This is known as the Wet Dress Rehearsal, where the fully-stacked SLS and Orion spacecraft will conduct a series of operations at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This test follows the arrival of the SLS to …
Asteroid 2007 FF1 LIVE – ‘Close approach’ of ‘April Fool’s Day’ space rock to happen TODAY, Nasa says
If an asteroid hit the Earth, conclusion “So you burn things, kill everything in the ocean, and freeze the Earth, and it goes through about two years of constant winter,” Scharringhausen added. He doesn’t think that all life on Earth would die after a large asteroid impact, since some small creatures survived the asteroid strike …
Russian cosmonaut hands over space station command as NASA astronaut bids farewell
Anton Shkaplerov (left) hands over command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn (right) on March 29, 2022. (Image credit: NASA TV) Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov handed over “the keys” to the International Space Station today (March 29) as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei said goodbye to the international space crew. In …
Record-breaking NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth early Wednesday: Watch live
A record-breaking NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will return to Earth early Wednesday (March 30), and you can watch their homecoming live. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station Wednesday at 3:21 a.m. EDT (0721 GMT) …
