[ad_1] FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – When we think of space missions and moon landings, we usually think of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Houston, Texas. But this city of Arizona has also played a crucial role in space exploration. It is here that NASA trained all of its Apollo astronauts before setting foot on the moon and … Read more
[ad_1] Two large asteroids will make passes extremely close to Earth in the next few days. A number of asteroids – classified as Near Earth Objects (NEO) – pass regularly on Earth, but they will fly over exceptionally. Tuesday, an object called 2019 MB4 will pass only 315 000 km from the Earth, a distance … Read more
[ad_1] See 7 Articles Jaren Wilkey, Brigham Young University BYU Associate Professor Janie Radebaugh, pictured in 2017, has been named to contribute to an ambitious quest for the kind of chemistry that can lead to life ("pre-biotic chemistry") – and possibly signs of life – on Titan, the moon of Saturn. Editor's note: a version … Read more
[ad_1] [Editors’ note: This is part of America’s space issue, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Click here to find our other stories that are out of this world.] Younot. New. Eight. Seven. I was in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center control room in Maryland on June 11, 2008, with … Read more
[ad_1] The MIT scientist, Daniel Rothman, has published new findings suggesting that the Earth would be on the road to a "mass extinction" event if we exceeded the threshold of carbon dioxide in our oceans. The current rate at which carbon dioxide enters the oceans, he says, could lead to an unstoppable cascade of chemical … Read more
[ad_1] The melting of Antarctic ice and climate change will contribute to rising sea levels worldwide over the next 150 years. The Thwaites Antarctic Glacier is at the forefront of this warning as it slowly collapses into the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists who have been studying this rapidly deteriorating part of Antarctica fear that Thwaites' instability … Read more
[ad_1] An illustration of Hayabusa2 at Ryugu JAXA Japanese space agency JAXA is preparing the next part of its break up and seize the operation at the Ryugu asteroid this week. Hayabusa2 of the JAXA The spacecraft has already made a brief hit on the big rock of space, then fired a copper projectile earlier … Read more
[ad_1] Tang was not meant to travel in space, but the trip to space made it famous. The sweet orange drink did not take off when it was introduced to the US market in 1959, but after being launched by American astronauts in the 1960s (the "ORANGE DRINK"), Tang owned the best integrated brand in … Read more
[ad_1] On June 25, 2019, the Planetary Society 's cubesat spaceship known as LightSail 2 took off from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. It was the second solar sail launched by the Society, the first (LightSail 1) having been sent to space in 2015. Like its predecessor, this spacecraft … Read more
[ad_1] Own power Published on July 9, 2019 | by Steve Hanley July 9, 2019 by Steve Hanley People who are racing or sailing know the wind's aerodynamics and turbulence. Racing cars leave behind eddies of disturbed air, which slows cars down. Sailboats have similar turbulent eddies, slowing the boats that follow. Stanford researchers examined … Read more