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Virgin Galactic Going for a New Unity Test Flight After December Failure
6 Feb 2021, 16:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic targeting a new test flight of the Unity spaceship sometime this month, last test conducted in December failed
NASA Gives $93 Million to Private Company for Moon Mission
6 Feb 2021, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA awards $93.3 million to Firefly Aerospace for the delivery of ten science experiments to the Moon in support of the Artemis program
NASA Says SLS Ready for a Second Hot Fire Test, Coming in Late February
6 Feb 2021, 09:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA determined that “a second, longer hot fire test should be conducted and would pose minimal risk to the Artemis I core stage," test coming by end of month
SpaceX Starship Second Test Is Also a Success, Despite Explosive Landing
3 Feb 2021, 08:31 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / SN9 took off without a glitch and was able to perform the belly flop maneuver, but could not return to vertical orientation for landing before the crash
35 Years Ago, Space Shuttle Challenger Blew Up With 7 Inside
29 Jan 2021, 14:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on take off on January 28, 1986, taking seven lives in the process and grounding the shuttle program for three years
Spaceship With Impossible Name Coming Back to Earth With Asteroid Samples
27 Jan 2021, 15:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the OSIRIS-Rex sample collection spacecraft will begin its journey home on May 10, will arrive on Earth in 2023
Boeing Starliner Going for the ISS Again in March, This Time Plans to Catch It
26 Jan 2021, 16:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second attempt of the Boeing Starliner capsule to dock with the International Space Station is scheduled for March 25
NASA SLS Hot Fire Test Failure Blamed on Hydraulic System
22 Jan 2021, 16:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says a hydraulic system on auxiliary power unit 2 is to blame for the abruptly-ended SLS hot fire test, safety systems kicked in
Lockheed Martin Readies Orion Capsule for Moon Mission Later in 2021
19 Jan 2021, 12:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Lockheed Martin handed over the Orion capsule for the Artemis I mission to a NASA team, departure to come by the end of the year
Space Launch System Hot Fire Test Failed, NASA Looking Into Why
18 Jan 2021, 14:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Saturday's hot fire test of the SLS' core stage four RS engines was cut short as the engines shut down one minute into the eight-minute test
ISS Needs More Solar Panels, Boeing Jumps In to Help
17 Jan 2021, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Boeing would deliver six new solar power arrays to the International Space Station, adding 30 percent more to the station's electricity generating capacity
NASA Moves Final SLS Hot Fire Test to January 16, Here's How to Watch
16 Jan 2021, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In an announcement made earlier this week, NASA said it now plans on running the test today, January 16, at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi
Japanese Space Agency to Make the Systems for the Lunar Space Station Habitat
13 Jan 2021, 15:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and its Japanese counterpart, JAXA, agree to a collaboration for the systems that will be used to make the Gateway lunar station functional
Ricky Gervais Could Have Been the First Comedian to Do Stand-Up in Space
12 Jan 2021, 12:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Comedian tells Jimmy Fallon he was offered the chance to entertain space tourists but he declined because he’s too scared
1-Minute Trailer for the Perseverance Mars Landing Previews Stunning Experience
11 Jan 2021, 16:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are 23 cameras on the Perseverance rover and its lander ready to capture in stunning detail the landing scheduled for next month
NASA Ready for Full Blown SLS Hot Fire Test, Could Take Place as Soon as January
6 Jan 2021, 16:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A hot fire exercise that will see all four of the SLS core stage’s RS-25 engines being fired up and burned for up to eight minutes takes place later this month
Alien Technology Passed Earth in 2017 With Oumuamua, Professor Avi Loeb Explains
6 Jan 2021, 09:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy stands by his old theory that Oumuamua was no regular asteroid but a piece of alien debris
NASA's Perseverance Rover Hears Something on Its Way to Mars
2 Jan 2021, 07:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A microphone on the Perseverance rover is brought online and it catches the sounds made by the spaceship and the rover itself
Mars Rover Landing Coming, Here's How to Enjoy It All
1 Jan 2021, 08:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases the Landing Toolkit that will allow space exploration fans to fully enjoy the experience of seeing Perseverance land on Mars in February
NASA Targeting the Sun Again With Two Tongue-Twisting Missions
30 Dec 2020, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and a series of partners are ready for two more missions by the end of this decade meant to study the Sun in our solar system