Tag: landing
Watch live: Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reflect on the moon landing
[embedded content] To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, which launched on July 16, 1969, NASA will hold a live broadcast featuring a retrospective on the historic mission and presentations by the astronauts involved. You can watch the event live on Tuesday, July 16 at 6:15 a.m. PT above. […]
NASA’s restored Mission Control lets you relive the historic 1969 moon landing
[embedded content] When Neil Armstrong became the first human in history to set foot on the moon in July 1969, team members back at Mission Control allowed themselves a brief pat on the back in a tense operation that still had to bring the astronauts safely back home. It may seem unfathomable to some, but […]
SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy but loses core booster in crash landing
[embedded content] SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lit up the Florida sky early Tuesday local time as it roared into space at the beginning of a six-hour mission described by CEO Elon Musk as the company’s “most difficult launch ever.” The challenge comes from the sheer scale of the endeavor, with its large payload requiring 4 […]
Minutes before landing, Israeli moon mission suffers catastrophic failure
Update: The landing was going well until a few minutes before the craft was due to touch down, with Beresheet snapping a selfie just above the moon’s surface. But then a problem occurred with one of the gyro sensors, and communications with the craft were temporarily lost. The main engine went offline for a minute, […]
SpaceX just nailed its most challenging Falcon 9 rocket landing to date
SpaceX Update: thanks to favorable weather conditions and a perfectly executed launch, SpaceX’s Nusantara Satu mission was at least a partial success. At time of writing, the rocket’s payloads (a satellite and a lunar lander) have not yet been delivered into orbit, but it’s second stage booster was successfully recovered after landing on SpaceX’s autonomous […]
NASA’s InSight mission prepares for Mars landing on Monday
NASA’s InSight mission to Mars is just days away from reaching its destination. On Monday, November 26, the InSight lander will blaze through the atmosphere of the red planet and land on the surface. Now, the NASA team is making final preparations for the landing. One of the many challenges of sending a craft to […]
NASA selects the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission
After years of consideration, NASA has finally chosen the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The location is known as Jezero Crater, and on several occasions in the dim and distant past water is believed to have flowed into it before draining away. As a result, scientists believe that “microbial life could have […]
Here’s how the InSight mission to Mars will confirm its landing to NASA
NASA’s InSight mission aims to send a lander to Mars to study the crust, mantle, and core of the red planet. Launched in May this year, InSight is now nearly at its destination and will soon be touching down on the surface of Mars. NASA has shared details on how it will monitor the touching down […]