Student teams from all over the country gathered at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to present ideas in six categories to send hardware, software, and other ideas to fly to the space station. Competition categories include design and prototyping, software, hardware, sewn flight articles, culinary, and video and media.
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China’s Tiangong space station receives fresh supplies from new Tianzhou cargo spacecraft
China’s Tianzhou 4 freighter has arrived at its orbital destination. The robotic Tianzhou 4 docked with Tianhe, the core module of China’s under-construction Tiangong space station, on Monday evening (May 9), Chinese space officials said. The arrival occurred as planned, about 6.5 hours after the cargo spacecraft lifted off atop a Long March 7 rocket from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan Province. The 35-foot-long (10.6 meters) Tianzhou 4 delivered thousands of pounds of supplies, propellant and science experiments to the currently unoccupied Tianhe to help prepare the…
Read MoreNASA, Boeing to Discuss Readiness of Uncrewed Flight Test
NASA and Boeing will hold a media teleconference at about 6 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 11, following the Flight Readiness Review for the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), the second uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Read MoreBlue Origin announces crew for next suborbital space tourism launch
Blue Origin just announced the identities of the next six people it will launch to the final frontier. The six passengers for the NS-21 mission include a past spaceflyer aboard the company’s New Shepard spacecraft and the first Mexican-born woman to visit space, Blue Origin announced today (May 9). Unlike the company’s previous four spaceflights, no celebrity passenger is listed among the group. (“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson was supposed to fly aboard Blue Origin’s most recent mission, known as NS-20, but he backed out due to a scheduling…
Read More‘Analog astronauts’ assemble in Biosphere 2 bubble to talk simulated space missions
The Biosphere 2 research facility in Oracle, Arizona. (Image credit: Frogman1484/Getty Images) Out in the desert in Arizona, “analog astronauts” gathered this weekend for an annual conference in a giant, futuristic habitat called Biosphere 2. The event, called the Analog Astronaut Conference, is an annual meetup showcasing the work of “analog astronauts,” or researchers who have completed simulated space missions, living and working in habitats on Earth that mimic expected living conditions in destinations like Mars or the moon. The event took place from May 6 to May 8 at…
Read MoreSunday Night’s Total Lunar Eclipse
North American skywatchers can see the Moon turn a reddish hue as it flirts with Earth’s shadow on the night of May 15–16. The post Sunday Night's Total Lunar Eclipse appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreWitness a Total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday, May 15–16
The full Flower Moon ducks inside Earth’s shadow in a total lunar eclipse this month. We help you prepare for all the highlights of the special event. The post Witness a Total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday, May 15–16 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreNASA’s Glenn Research Center Director to Retire
NASA announced Monday Dr. Marla Pérez-Davis, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, plans to retire in June after nearly four decades of service at the agency.
Read MoreNASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 to Discuss Mission After Returning to Earth
Astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission, including crew members from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), will answer questions about their recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a post-splashdown news conference at 11:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11.
Read MoreA View of Earth From the Space Station
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats in the space station’s cupola, a direct nadir viewing window from which Earth and celestial objects are visible.
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