The silhouette of US engineer and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen past the NASA logo in the Webb Auditorium at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) WASHINGTON – The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a […]
This Dec 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. (NASA VIA AP) LOS ANGELES – NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the […]
(From left to right) Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata arrive ahead of the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew5 Dragon, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct 5, 2022. (JIM WATSON / AFP) A four-member SpaceX Crew […]
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft rests at launch pad 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-5 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct 4, 2022. CAPE CANAVERAL – Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX was due to launch the next long-duration crew of the International […]
The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 18, 2022. (JOHN RAOUX / AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent a final full day of preparations ahead of Monday’s planned liftoff of […]
In this still picture from a NASA TV broadcast, the James Webb Space Telescope separates from Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket after launching from Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Dec 25, 2021. (AFP / NASA TV) LOS ANGELES – NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence […]