NASA Satellite Detects Chelyabinsk Meteor Plume Long After Explosion
NASA scientists were able to detect Chelyabinsk meteor dust using the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, also proving the... Read more →
India Cuts Russia Out of Next Lunar Mission
India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, will be carried out without Russian partnership, announced a government minister on August 14. The... Read more →
Proton and Antares Scheduled to Launch on September 15
Russia is ready to resume Proton launches on September 15. International Launch Services (ILS), the U.S.-Russian joint venture that sells commercial... Read more →
EVA Goes Off Without a Hitch, Breaks Duration Record
On August 16, International Space Station cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin performed an 7 hour 29 minute extravehicular activity... Read more →
Driving K-10: Adventures in Off-World Telerobotics
From aboard the International Space Station (ISS), first astronaut Chris Cassidy, then his crewmate Luca Parmitano, remotely operated the K-10 rover... Read more →
Why Alan Shepard Had to Pee In His Space Suit
There are activities we so take for granted and consider so normal in our everyday lives here on Earth we barely think about them – like urinating.... Read more →