Mars Rover Opportunity Recovers from Minor Glitch
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity working in the Matijevic Hill area on Endeavour's rim (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State... Read more →
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: Uncertain Case for Lunar Exploration
Illustration of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch vehicle (Credits: SpaceX),. There have been occasional suggestions that NASA should scrap its Space... Read more →
The Day NASA’s Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet
Just over a year ago, on March 29, 2012, NASA's Fermi team had to make a decision: risk a collision between the gamma-ray space telescope and defunct... Read more →
Potential Damage to ISS During Progress Docking May Delay ATV-4
Russian controllers try unsucessfully to fully deploy the KURS antenna before circumventing the glitch with a software patch (Credits:... Read more →
SpaceIL: From Flight of Fancy to the Moon
In a visit to California in February 2013, SpaceIL founder Yariv Bash discussed how he and two other engineers came to undertake the Google Lunar X... Read more →
Micrometeoroid Pierces ISS Solar Array
Micrometeoroid hole, as tweeted by Commander Hadfield (Credits: Chris Hadfield). International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield has posted an... Read more →