NASA‘s Ingenuity helicopter has made its seventh successful flight on Mars, this time landing in an airfield that had only previously been seen by a Mars orbiter. The 4-pound helicopter made its successful journey on June 6, more than two weeks after its last flight. ‘Another successful flight,’ NASA JPL tweeted. The miniature helicopter flew … Read more
NASA‘s Ingenuity helicopter has made its seventh successful flight on Mars, this time landing in an airfield that had only previously been seen by a Mars orbiter. The 4-pound helicopter made its successful journey on June 6, more than two weeks after its last flight. ‘Another successful flight,’ NASA JPL tweeted. The miniature helicopter flew … Read more
NASA is returning to Venus for the first time in more than 30 years, as the space agency unveiled two new $500 million missions on Wednesday that are expected to launch within the next 10 years. As part of its State of the Agency address, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, … Read more
NASA‘s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some ‘unexpected motion’ in the final few feet. This motion was from an ‘image processing issue’ but the 4lb copter ‘muscled through’ the final 213ft of its 703ft flight over the Martian surface, NASA JPL … Read more
NASA‘s Ingenuity helicopter is going to attempt a sixth flight on Mars next week, reaching speeds of up to nine miles per hour and flying for over two minutes. This will be the first flight as part of the ‘operations demonstration phase’ that includes helping the Perseverance rover in its mission to find ancient signs … Read more
NASA‘s Artemis mission to send the first woman and next man to the moon by 2024 could be at risk due to extreme space weather, solar forecasters have predicted. Scientists from the University of Reading looked back over 150 years of space weather data to find patterns in the timings of the most extreme events. … Read more
A petition is calling on NASA to name its planned 2024 Lunar Gateway the ‘Collins Lunar Gateway’ in honor of astronaut Michael Collins who died on April 28. Collins was part of the three-man crew that made history with the lunar landing in 1969, but unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, he never walked on the … Read more
Astronauts on the International Space Station are helping NASA find ways to counter effects of microgravity on the spine for those set to make the 300 MILLION-mile journey to Mars NASA is working on a new project to study how space impacts the spine Nine astronauts on the ISS had been scanned before leaving Earth … Read more
NASA has officially named first-astronaut Kayla Barron to be the fourth and final member of its upcoming SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), slated to launch in mid-October. Barron, 33, who entered astronaut candidate school in 2017, will join fellow NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn on the flight. The three NASA astronauts … Read more
NASA has advanced researchers grant money to figure out how to get a mission to Saturn’s moon Titan and bring back any extraterrestrial life it discovers. The return journey of the probe, which aims to bring back ‘organic compounds’ for further study, would be fueled by the celestial satellite’s vast methane lakes. The space agency recently … Read more