How NASA’s hot rod Pontiac helped design the space shuttle
Facing unprecedented heat during returns through the atmosphere, simplicity was the order of the day for the shuttle, as ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait for NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.
Secretive X-37B space plane shares first images from orbit; see photos
For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...
Boeing Starliner 'Gilligan's Island' astronauts prepping to come home after NASA Crew-10 launch
After a handover period on the ISS, Wilmore and Williams will join Crew-9 for a return trip inside the Dragon with splashdown off the Florida coastline.
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What we know: Secretive Space Force X-37B space plane sends back photo of Earth
According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation similar to the Space Shuttle, however it is smaller, ...
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How Trump Can Save NASA
No U.S. astronaut had been beyond low Earth orbit since the final Apollo mission ... to the station—and SpaceX did so for a small fraction of what NASA had spent on each space shuttle flight. NASA’s ...
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Why NASA keeps changing the probability of an asteroid impacting Earth in 2032
On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...