The most popular image in space history in the United States is from the challenger (STS-41-B) mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1984. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II is engaged in the first untethered spacewalk, very high above the Earth. What frightens a man the most is the emptiness of space and…
NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will land at the western end of the ‘Noble crater’ at the Moon’s South Pole by the end of 2023. The availability of ground water will be confirmed. The Viper will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon-heavy rocket.The Moon’s South Pole is one of the coldest regions in…
Fun fact: President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law on July 29, 1958. On October 1, 1958, NASA formally opened for business.
NASA plans to release such a large amount to SpaceX, Blue Origin, and three other companies. These companies have been given 15 months to operate. Dynamics is expected to make the largest payment of $ 40.8 million. Blue Origin will receive $ 25.6 million and SpaceX $ 9.4 million.
NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars in February 2021.The main purpose of Perseverance is to collect soil and rock samples from the surface of Mars and deliver them to Earth. If things go as planned by NASA and the European Space Agency, these samples will reach Earth by 2031. This project…
The Colorado Ultra Violet Transit Experiment (CUTE) Cube Satellite launches to learn more about planets that are warmer than the Sun. Cute will collect information on the hottest planet ever discovered, including KELT-9b. The Atlas V rocket was launched from California on September 27 with Lantasat. Kevin France, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric…
NASA’s SpaceXCrew 1 mission holds the record for the longest spaceflight. The NASA team, led by Michael Hopkins, spent 64 days growing the two species of plants. This is the longest period to date. Extra dwarf and mustard Amstra varieties of Chinese cabbage were cultivated in space. NASA had earlier released details of their space…
A giant asteroid the size of a 32-story building passed close to Earth last week. None of the world’s leading astronomical, astronomical, and astronomical observatories, including NASA, have been able to detect it. It could not be detected by intense sunlight. The asteroid passed half the distance between the Earth and the Moon above ground…
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took a selfie with his camera back to Earth. This selfie should be remembered from the endless loneliness, 600 crore kilometers away from the earth. Our earth is smaller than a pixel in the image. When viewed from such a distance, the Earth appears as a tiny…
The Rosetta was launched by the European Space Agency on March 2, 2004. Philey was the lander in it.Rosetta’s target is “67P / Churyumov – Gerasimenko”, a comet located 405 million kilometers from Earth. 67P / Churyumov – Gerasimenko, located in the Kuiper Belt, is a comet about 4 km in diameter. Between 1978 and…
