Space Exploration

Feel the Power of a Mighty Falcon 9 Blast Off Creaming Cameras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Jf_G2ewrU Video: Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 on CRS-2 mission on March 1, 2013 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: Jeff…

12 years ago

How Do You Build a Holodeck?

What would it be like to step in an ordinary room and feel a gentle, computer-generated jungle breeze, with trees…

12 years ago

SpaceX Dragon Recovers from Frightening Propulsion System Failure – Sunday Docking Set

Kennedy Space Center - Barely 11 minutes after the spectacular Friday morning, March 1 launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9…

12 years ago

Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers

During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…

12 years ago

SpaceX Commercial Rocket Poised for March 1 Blast Off to ISS

Kennedy Space Center - All systems are GO and the weather outlook looks spectacular for the March 1 blast off…

12 years ago

Fire! How the Mir Incident Changed Space Station Safety

Sixteen years ago, a fire on the Russian space station Mir erupted after a cosmonaut routinely ignited a perchlorate canister…

12 years ago

European Asteroid Smasher Could Bolster Planetary Defense

Planetary Defense is a concept very few people heard of or took seriously - that is until last week’s humongous…

12 years ago

Historic Mars Rock Drilling Sample Set for Analysis by Curiosity Robot in Search of Organics

Newly received images from the surface of Mars confirm that NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully extracted the 1st ever samples collected…

12 years ago

What are the Most Memorable NASA Spacewalks?

The official name is "extra-vehicular activity," (EVA) but most of us like to call it a spacewalk. However, when you…

12 years ago