NASA Glynn S. Lunney, left, fellow flight director Gerald D. Griffin, astronaut James A. McDivitt and astronaut and director of flight crew operations Donald K. “Deke” Slayton talk during the flight of Apollo 13 in 1970. Glynn S. Lunney, one of NASA’s first flight directors, who had a major role in guiding astronauts to the […]
Chris DeGraw/Digital Trends, Getty Images Many futurists have speculated that we may one day be able to scan the human brain and “upload” it to a computer. Some believe this could allow humans to live on after death in digital form, or preserve a copy of yourself that will stick around long after you’re gone. […]
Phil Coulson and the gang are back for one final season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Another Marvel era is ending as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gears up for its seventh, and final, 13-episode season on ABC. The spin-off series created by The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon brought Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) back […]
The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission to Mercury was launched in 2018 and is currently in orbit around the sun at a similar distance to Earth. But it needs to change its course to reach another planet, so to help it along its journey it will get a gravity […]
It took Stephanie Cartier nearly three years to open No Limits, a central New Jersey cafe operated by people with intellectual disabilities. That was early February. It took only a few days in March to close the 65-seat restaurant indefinitely. Customers dwindled as fears of the coronavirus increased. There was not enough cash coming in […]
Despite growing concerns over the coronavirus, SpaceX and NASA are still eyeing May 2020 for a mission that will mark the first launch of American astronauts aboard an American rocket and spacecraft since the final space shuttle mission in July 2011, ending U.S. reliance on Russia’s Soyuz program to get astronauts to and from space. […]
The ExoMars rover mission has been delayed until 2022, ending hopes of a launch this summer. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said in a message posted on Thursday, March 12, that it needs more time to complete all of the necessary tests on its spacecraft and related equipment. For example, […]
SpaceX’s Dragon lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, May 4, with research, equipment, cargo and supplies that will support dozens of investigations aboard the International Space Station. SpaceX This Friday, SpaceX will be launching its 20th resupply mission to […]
Jupiter system captured in JUICE NavCam test (annotated) Airbus Defence and Space Jupiter has an abundance of moons, and astronomers continue to spot new ones and to make unexpected findings about the ones we’ve already seen. An upcoming mission from the European Space Agency, called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, hasn’t even left […]
[embedded content] The Mars 2020 rover is preparing for its big mission by doing some “bicep curls” in a new video released by NASA. The rover will head to Mars in July 2020 and is scheduled to land on the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater in February 2021. It’s a big mission to prepare for: the […]
[embedded content] Your side salad could be about to get a whole lot more high-tech, thanks to researchers at the U.K.’s University of Cambridge, who have developed an A.I.-powered robot that’s able to identify and pick iceberg lettuce. In doing so, it joins a growing (no pun intended) number of robots designed to help harvest […]
[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 […]
An illustration of the the power and propulsion element of the Lunar Gateway. NASA The ambitious, even perhaps overly ambitious, plan for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024 is underway, with new developments coming this week. NASA announced that it aims not just to send a man back to the moon, […]
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center China’s Chang’e 4 mission has been exploring the far side of the moon since it landed at the start of the year, and has already made discoveries about the temperature on the moon and sent back images of the moon’s lesser-explored regions. Now it has made a major discovery: pieces […]
The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off carrying the SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station for its 16th commercial resupply services mission. NASA SpaceX will shortly be launching another resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX launch is scheduled to take place at 4:21 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, […]