[ad_1] LONG BEACH, Calif .– NASA and Boeing target the first half of 2022 to launch the rescheduled test flight of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle as engineers continue to investigate a valve issue that delayed the mission two months ago. In an Oct. 8 statement, NASA said engineers were successful in freeing all … Read more
[ad_1] Meteors projected across lower parts of space may be visible in remote areas of Riverside County this evening as the “Draconid” meteor shower arrives, providing a spectacular light show in the NorthHemisphere. According to meteorologists, the Draconids, which are debris from comet 21P Giacobini, may provide the best meteor shower activity for the entire … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX astronaut Dr Sian Proctor told National Geographic she felt sick for two days in space. Proctor also said SpaceX’s three-day mission around Earth was not long enough. She said her head was “a little stuffy” on the second day, National Geographic reported. Loading Something is loading. A SpaceX astronaut who took part in … Read more
[ad_1] Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, vice president and ruler of Dubai, shared a new photo of Mars taken by the Hope probe. He said on Saturday that the data Hope gleaned showed greater amounts of oxygen than expected on the Red Planet. The UAE has also started sharing the data it obtained with science centers … Read more
[ad_1] NASA has officially postponed the launch of its Orbital Flight-Test 2 until next year, as it continues to work on an oxidant isolation valve issue on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, the company said. agency. The agency said in a blog post that it was continuing to assess potential launch windows for the mission: “The team … Read more
[ad_1] Almost 63% of Afro-Arab mammal species became extinct around 30 million years ago (Oligocene epoch), after Earth’s climate changed from swampy to frigid. A Pleistocene landscape. Image credit: Roman Uchytel, via the Netherlands Institute for Ecology. In a new study, Dr Dorien de Vries and colleagues at the University of Salford examined fossils from … Read more
[ad_1] Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a bit of a puzzle. For starters, not only is Pluto smaller than any other planet in the solar system, it’s also smaller than Earth’s moon. It also has extremely weak gravitational pull at just 0.07 times the mass of objects in its orbit, which is … Read more
[ad_1] Boeing’s Starliner Astronaut Taxi isn’t taking off this year after all. Starliner was originally scheduled to launch on August 3 on Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), an unmanned critical test mission to the International space station for NASA. But pre-launch testing revealed 13 blocked valves in the Starliner service module, postponing take-off – until … Read more
[ad_1] Samples of lunar rock from China – the first lunar rocks to return to Earth in more than 40 years – show that lava flowed there 2 billion years ago, scientists say. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, a group of international authors led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of … Read more
[ad_1] European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron pose for a photo during training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX Astronauts who will orbit SpaceX’s newest Dragon spacecraft later this month said on Thursday that they named their spacecraft “Endurance” after the human spirit … Read more