Moon

Cool NASA Animation Beautifully Details Every Step of Orion’s First Launch!

http://vimeo.com/31799422 Video Caption: Animation details NASA’s Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission launching on Dec. 4. 2014. Credit: NASA It’s…

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Africa’s First Mission to the Moon Announced

Africa is home to 7 out of 10 of the world's fastest-growing economies. It's population is also the "youngest" in…

10 years ago

Iconic Kennedy Space Center Countdown Clock Retires

Iconic Kennedy Space Center Countdown Clock seen here retires NASA’s 135th and final shuttle mission takes flight on July 8,…

10 years ago

A Thousand Days ‘Til Totality: Anticipating the 2017 Solar Eclipse

Where will YOU be on August 21st, 2017? Astronomy is all about humility and thinking big in terms of space…

10 years ago

Lunar Mission One Wants To Crowdfund A Robotic Moon Lander

Just hours after announcing that it plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in the next decade, the…

10 years ago

Smart Robots Could Build ‘Snow Forts’ On The Moon One Day

The Moon is so close to us, and yet so far. Just last year the Chang'e-3 spacecraft and Yutu rover…

10 years ago

Comet Landing: Side-By-Side Pics Of Alien Surfaces Humanity Explored

Correction, 11:33 a.m. EST: The University of Central Florida's Phil Metzger points out that the image composition leaves out Eros,…

10 years ago

Building A Space Base, Part 3: Making Remote Robots Smart

We're still a few years away from the cute robots in Moon or Interstellar that help their human explorers. But…

10 years ago

Building A Space Base, Part 2: How Much Money Would It Take?

How much would it cost to establish a space base close to Earth, say on the Moon or an asteroid?…

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