NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ESA (European Space Agency) Director General Josef Aschbacher signed two agreements Wednesday at the ESA Council meeting in Noordwijk, Netherlands, further advancing the space agencies’ cooperation on Earth science and Artemis missions.
Read MoreMonth: June 2022
The Sparkle of Distant Galaxies
The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13.
Read MoreStrawberry supermoon: June full moon free webcast canceled due to clouds
Update for 4:45 pm ET: The Virtual Telescope Project has canceled its Strawberry supermoon webcast due to cloudy weather. Here’s what to expect for the Strawberry supermoon in your night sky, as well as how to capture the perfect supermoon photo. The full moon of June will shine bright today, but if bad weather clouds your view, don’t fret. You’ll be able to see the Full Strawberry Moon in a live webcast for free. The Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy will host a free livestream of the full moon…
Read MoreFirst stunning ‘Starfield’ gameplay footage reveals an awesome Mars rover easter egg
After sifting through a treasure of evocative concept art images and “Into The Starfield” making-of videos, Bethesda Game Studios has finally rewarded our patience and released the first gameplay footage for their epic sci-fi masterpiece, “Starfield.” Here in this informative new video (opens in new tab), Game Director Todd Howard delivers an engaging tour of this highly anticipated role-playing adventure game during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, and gives us a fun glimpse of what might be the Red Planet and a familiar-looking rover. When the ambitious “Starfield” arrives…
Read MoreNASA Interns’ First Day at Goddard
From working at home to a hybrid internship, Goddard welcomes the triumphant return of some students.
Read More‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ episode 6 suffers from a slight dip in story quality
Warning: Spoilers for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 1, episode 6 So far, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has shown signs of steadily improving, even if the episode titles seem to be getting longer. This week it’s “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” and you try squeezing that into a two-deck headline. However, even an excessively long title can’t save this episode from sadly being the weakest of Season 1 thus far, but then one of them had to be. Hopefully, this is where the new minimum standard will…
Read MoreNASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Read MoreIt’s Flag Day
Flag Day is celebrated on June 14 each year and commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.
Read MoreSpaceX cargo launch to space station delayed 2 more weeks, to July 11
The launch of SpaceX’s next cargo mission has been pushed back at least two more weeks, to no earlier than July 11. The mission, called CRS-25, will send a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket. CRS-25 was originally scheduled to launch on June 10, but NASA and SpaceX pushed the target date back to June 28 after noticing elevated vapor levels of hydrazine — the propellant used by Dragon’s Draco thrusters — in part of the spacecraft’s propulsion system. But there will be an…
Read MoreSpaceX’s Starship rocket project can continue in South Texas, FAA review finds
SpaceX can continue developing and testing its giant Starship vehicle in South Texas, provided the company takes pains to mitigate its impact on the environmentally sensitive area, a long-awaited review by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has found. That FAA review, called a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA), had been gauging the environmental impacts of Starship activities at Starbase, SpaceX’s facility near the city of Brownsville. The PEA was originally expected to be released by the end of 2021, but the FAA pushed the deadline back multiple times, citing the…
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