SpaceX’s Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Thursday (March 9), and you can watch the action live. A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the Crew-5 quartet — NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, cosmonaut Anna Kikina and Japan’s Koichi Wakata — is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 GMT) on Thursday, wrapping up five months in orbit. You can watch the Dragon’s departure live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency (opens…
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NASA Sets Coverage for Annual Address, Budget Media Call in March
Administrator Bill Nelson will broadcast his annual State of NASA remarks at 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 9. The event will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
Read MoreNASA, Axiom Space to Reveal Artemis Moon Mission Spacesuit
A spacesuit prototype of what NASA astronauts, including the first woman, plan to wear on the surface of the Moon during the agency’s Artemis III mission, is set for reveal during a televised event hosted by Axiom Space beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. CDT) Wednesday, March 15, from Space Center Houston in Texas.
Read MoreNASA, Smithsonian to Discuss Air Quality Satellite Instrument
Media are invited to a joint briefing with NASA and The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 14, to discuss the first space-based instrument to observe major air pollutants across North America every hour during the daytime.
Read MoreEileen Collins, Discovery Pilot
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995.
Read MoreThe Mandalorian season 3 episode 2 review: Diving headfirst into Manda-lore
Last week’s review of The Mandalorian season 3 episode 1 highlighted how Chapter 17 was built to let audiences know what had changed during The Book of Boba Fett, what the next step in Din Djarin’s journey was, and why we loved this show in the first place. It was a lot to tackle within 30 minutes, and while everything clicked together and delivered classic Star Wars fun, the episode felt largely unfocused and too fast at times. With Chapter 18 ‘The Mines of Mandalore’, Jon Favreau immediately justifies such…
Read MoreWatch Relativity Space launch Terran 1, world’s 1st 3D-printed rocket, on debut flight today
Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first 3D-printed launcher, will fly for the first time today (March 8), and you can watch the action live. The 110-foot-tall (33 meters) Terran 1 is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today during a three-hour window that opens at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). You can watch the orbital test flight — called “Good Luck, Have Fun,” or GLHF for short — here at Space.com, courtesy of Relativity Space, or directly via the company (opens in…
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope spots galaxy from early universe rich in star formation
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed that a well-known early galaxy has an overshadowed companion that is abundant with star formation. JWST‘s initial target was SPT0418-47, one of the brightest dusty, star-forming galaxies in the early universe. Given it is an extremely distant galaxy — it lies about 12 billion light-years from Earth — its light is bent and magnified by the gravity of another galaxy in the foreground (located between SPT0418-47 and the space telescope), creating a near perfect circle called an Einstein ring. …
Read MoreNASA’s Space-X Crew-5 Scientific Mission aboard the Space Station
As the NASA SpaceX Crew-5 mission wraps up after months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann as well as Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina prepare to return home.
Read MoreDumbbell Nebula Pumps Out Light Show
Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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