NASA has awarded Dynetics Inc. of Huntsville, Alabama, a contract to produce a Laser Air Monitoring System (LAMS) for the agency’s Orion spacecraft beginning with the Artemis III mission.
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NASA Administrator Statement on President’s FY 2022 Funding Request
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the president’s FY 2022 budget request for the agency.
Read MoreNASA Awards New Spacecraft Avionics Development Contract
NASA has selected Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide development and operations support for the avionics software suite that will guide the agency’s next generation of human rated spacecraft on missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
Read MoreSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of May 24, 2021
During the week of May 24, scientific investigations conducted aboard the ISS included studies of plant water management, immune system function, and remote operation of robots.
Read MoreDark Energy Survey Catalogs 226 million Galaxies
The latest release from the Dark Energy Survey catalogs millions of galaxies, mapping the history of galaxy clustering across space and time. The post Dark Energy Survey Catalogs 226 million Galaxies appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read More‘Star Trek Online’ launches new season with familiar faces amid a Klingon civil war
A new season of “Star Trek Online” warped into action this week, bringing with it the conclusion to the game’s Klingon civil war. The new season, called “House United,” dropped on PC Tuesday (May 25) and features the voices of several “Star Trek” television veterans as Klingon characters, which allows players to prove their worth before building an army and heading to Qo’noS (pronounced Kronos, the Klingon homeworld) for the final battle. (If you pursue Qapla’ on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, however, your turn will have to wait until…
Read MoreHubble Captures a Captivating Spiral
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, in the constellation of Virgo.
Read MoreProtests, trolling and more: Drama swirls around NASA’s next moon lander for astronauts
The United States’ next moonshot is shaping up to be a contentious affair. In mid-April, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to finish development of its Starship vehicle and fly two missions with it to the lunar surface for the agency’s Artemis program. If all goes according to plan, the second of those missions will put two astronauts down near the lunar south pole in the mid-2020s — the first crewed moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, beat out two commercial competitors for…
Read More‘In Search Of Tomorrow’: Director David Weiner on his nostalgic project saluting ’80s sci-fi (exclusive)
[embedded content] It’s a futile mission trying to argue against the point that the decade of the ’80s was the greatest era of sci-fi movie making in Hollywood history. Dotted with a constellation of iconic flicks like “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Thing,” “Blade Runner,” “E.T. The Extraterrestrial,” “Tron,” “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan,” “Terminator,” “Ghostbusters,” “Robocop,” “Predator,” “Dune,” “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi,” “The Fly,” “Aliens,” “Back to the Future,” and “The Abyss,” it was an immeasurably fertile time for the imaginative genre. The best…
Read MoreThis Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 28 – June 5
Venus and Mercury conjoin in the post-sunset afterglow as Mercury fades away; bring binoculars! Arcturus stands over Spica. The Scorpion rears up, and the Big Dipper floats on high. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 28 – June 5 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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