Missions
Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth
[/caption] The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a…
One Year of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: Top Ten Finds
[/caption] One year ago today, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) officially reached orbit about the Moon, and in the past…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 188: The Future of Astronomy
We spent 5 episodes telling the story of astronomy so far, how we got from the work of the Babylonians…
New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
[/caption] The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in…
Subaru Telescope Takes Montage of Hayabusa’s Return to Earth
[/caption] The world watched and waited for the Hayabusa spacecraft to make its return to Earth on June 13, 2010…
Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule Retrieved
[/caption] Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is…
Hayabusa Returns!
Japan's little spacecraft that could returned to Earth, putting on quite a show over the Australian outback, making a fiery…
Crew Embarks on 520-Day Mock Mission to Mars
[/caption] Six men from Europe, Russia and China embarked on a 520-day mock mission to Mars, heading out to a…
Mars Webcam Provides Astronaut-like View of Red Planet
What would it be like to approach Mars in a spacecraft? In one of the coolest movies ever, we now…
Voyager 2 Update from Dr. Ed Stone
[/caption] In early May 2010, the 33-year-old Voyager 2 spacecraft experienced an anomaly where the data it returned to Earth…