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The Artemis-2 lunar mission's core stage, weighing 84,000 kilograms and measuring 64 meters tall, is now safely housed in NASA's iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: AmericaSpace/Alan Walters The massive, 212-foot-tall Space Launch System (SLS) core stage for Artemis-2 has arrived at Kennedy Space Center, following a 900-mile journey
In many parts of the world we take for granted that we will be able to enjoy high definition streaming. Even now, as I write this article, I have the Martian broadcast in high definition, but until now astronauts aboard the Space Station have had to accept low definition streaming. A team of NASA researchers
Back to list of articles It's harder than ever to escape light pollution, but doing so has never been more rewarding. Credit: Molly Wakeling Have you ever seen the Milky Way? Only 20 percent of the U.S. population lives in a place where they can. Away from light pollution, the wide, ghostly band almost looks
NASA’s Pegasus barge, carrying the massive core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS), arrives at the dock at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Complex 39 marshalling dock in Florida on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, after traveling from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The core stage is the next piece of Artemis
WASHINGTON — The SmallSat Alliance announced July 23 the appointment of Angel Smith, a former U.S. Marine, as its new chief executive officer. Smith, a former fighter pilot and House Intelligence Committee staffer, most recently served as an executive at Microsoft Corp. The SmallSat Alliance, a coalition of more than 50 companies in the small
Water purification is big business on Earth. Companies offer all kinds of services, from desalination to providing the right pH level for drinking water. But on the Moon there will be no similar technical infrastructure to support astronauts trying to establish a permanent base there. And there is one material in particular that will make
Mission commander Eileen Collins reviews a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia in 1999. Credit: NASA. Twenty-five years ago, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a space flight. A test pilot, mathematician, and pioneer, this soft-spoken Air Force colonel commanded the space shuttle Columbia when it roared into the post-midnight darkness of Florida
He International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting the Earth continuously for more than 25 years and has been visited by more than 270 astronauts, cosmonauts and commercial astronauts. In January 2031, a special spacecraft designed by SpaceX, also known as the American deorbiter vehicle, will lower the station's orbit until
NASA's VIPER (short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) sits assembled inside the clean room at the agency's Johnson Space Center. Image: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA announced Wednesday that it was canceling the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. It is the second time in less than a decade that NASA has canceled plans
