Tag: NASA
NASA declares Mars rover Opportunity dead after 15 years on red planet
NASA’s longest-running rover on Mars, Opportunity, has been pronounced dead – 15 years after it landed on the red planet. The six-wheeled vehicle was built to operate for just three months. After 800+ attempts to contact @MarsRovers Opportunity, today we’re announcing the end of a successful Martian mission. Intended to explore the Red Planet for…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launches NASA experiments in test flight
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin has launched NASA experiments into space on a brief test flight. The New Shepard rocket blasted off from west Texas, hoisting a capsule containing the experiments. The eight experiments were exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness before the capsule parachuted down. The New Shepard capsule lands…
NASA releases first high-resolution images of snowman-shaped Ultima Thule
The first high-resolution images of a 21-mile tall snowman-shaped object that lies one billion miles beyond Pluto have been released by NASA. The photographs of Ultima Thule, captured by the spacecraft, were revealed at a press conference on Wednesday. The dark object is formed of two spheres which have combined to form one celestial…
Queen’s Brian May joins NASA mission for New Year
Brian May is seeing in 2019 by unveiling his new single at NASA’s headquarters. The Queen guitarist, 71, is releasing New Horizons, his first solo work in over two decades, as a “tribute” to the spacecraft of the same name. The single, being released digitally, will air for the first time at NASA, in Maryland…
Winter Wonderland! Giant ice-filled crater on Mars photographed by ESA
An 82 kilometre-wide crater on Mars that is topped with snow has been photographed by the ESA’s (European Space Agency) Mars Express. The stunning untrodden snow scene comes as the mission prepares to celebrate 15-years since it entered the Red Planet’s orbit on Christmas Day. Korolev, as the crater is known, is thought to be…
Ex-NASA engineer builds ‘glitter-bomb trap’ to shame package thieves
A former NASA engineer has built a high-tech glitter bomb, anti-theft device to horrify thieves who steal Christmas packages from outside people’s homes. Frustrated after a parcel was stolen from his porch in California, YouTuber Mark Rober spent months building a bait trap which would cover thieves in glitter, stink spray and shame when they…
SpaceX Christmas delivery arrives at International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft approaches the robotic arm (Nasa TV/AP) A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies has arrived at the International Space Station – after a slight delay caused by a communication drop-out. The Dragon capsule pulled up at the orbiting lab three days after launching from Cape…
Astronauts arrive safely on International Space Station
Soyuz took off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just after 11.31am GMT (NASA/PA) The latest batch of astronauts to take up residence on board the International Space Station (ISS) have arrived safely following a six-hour flight. Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency NASA, David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian Space…
Astronauts blast off to ISS less than two months after failed launch
Astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) less than two months after the previous Soyuz mission failed. Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency NASA, David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos left aboard the Russian spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just…
NASA employees celebrate InSight Mars probe landing with elaborate handshake!
NASA's latest probe, InSight, made a successful landing on the red planet on Monday afternoon, triggering delighted celebrations across the globe. When the announcement was made that InSight had landed and the mission was a success, NASA employees were obviously thrilled, with two mission controllers launching into an impressive handshake to celebrate. The uplifting moment…
