Space Exploration

Roscosmos Highlights from 2010

From Russia, with love. Here's a video put together by Roscosmos of launch and mission highlights. Interestingly, in 2010, Russia…

14 years ago

Gorgeous 3 D Vistas of Martian Crater and Hydrate Minerals at Santa Maria

[/caption] Spectacular new images of a gorgeous gaping hole on Mars are streaming back to Earth from NASA’s Opportunity Mars…

14 years ago

Apollo Landing Sites in Stunning 3-D

[/caption] With the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera constantly snapping images of the lunar surface, we have been able to see…

14 years ago

Numerous Companies Propose Possible ‘Space Taxis’

[/caption] Once, the field had only had few entries, but now there are several companies vying to send American astronauts…

14 years ago

Tearing Apart Apollo 11 Inaccuracies

The movie trailer for Transformers 3 came out over a week ago, and seeing it is a facepalm moment for…

14 years ago

Powerful Mars Orbiter Directs Opportunity to Clays and Hydrated Minerals

[/caption] NASA is using its powerful science surveyor orbiting more than 241 kilometers above Mars to target the surface explorations…

14 years ago

SpaceX Looking to Launch Next Dragon Spacecraft – to the ISS

[/caption] With the success of the first and second launches of the Falcon 9 rocket as well as the successful…

14 years ago

Apollo 12 anniversary celebrated at Martian Crater as Opportunity blazes ahead

[/caption] NASA recently celebrated the anniversary of the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing mission with another history making craft -…

14 years ago

SpaceX Shoots for Dec. 8 Launch of Falcon 9

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL --Engineers with the commercial space company SpaceX have analyzed two small cracks in the rear segment of…

14 years ago

How Many Astronauts Does NASA Need?

[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – When we think of NASA, the first thing that most Americans picture is the men and…

14 years ago