Tiny Lunar Flashlight moon probe is in trouble. NASA has one month to fix it.

A tiny NASA moon probe continues to battle thruster issues as it attempts to reach its destination, but there’s still time left to make a fix. Lunar Flashlight launched in December 2022 on a quest to seek lunar ice. But on the way to the moon, the cubesat experienced thruster glitches on its mission to test a new “green” propellant. NASA officials downgraded its mission from orbiting to lunar flybys weeks ago. Yet the amended mission remains uncertain, agency officials said on Thursday (March 23). “The operations team has been…

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Russia’s leaky Soyuz capsule will depart space station on March 28. Here’s how to watch it live online.

A stricken Soyuz space capsule, which suffered a major coolant leak that left it unable to carry its three-man crew in December, will leave its space station dock for the trip home early Tuesday (March 28) and you can watch it live online. The leaky Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will cast off from its docking port at the International Space Station without any astronauts aboard — a rarity for Russia’s Roscosmos space program — at 5:57 a.m. EDT (0957 GMT).  You can watch it live here and via NASA TV (opens…

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NASA to name Artemis 2 crew next week, the first moon astronauts in 50 years

We’re a week away from a once-in-a-generation announcement: The names of the first moonbound astronauts in decades. On April 3, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will together showcase the three Americans and one Canadian that will go to the moon on Artemis 2, which will launch no sooner than November 2024. The quartet will loop around the moon during the first-ever human lunar mission since the landing of Apollo 17 in December 1972. The Artemis program will be more representative of the human population than Apollo was, NASA…

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Saturn moon Titan could hold the clues to life’s origin. This NASA drone could find them

The fourth in a line of groundbreaking NASA missions that could redefine how we understand life in the universe is set to launch in 2027.  NASA’s Dragonfly drone is headed for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, an active, icy world with a nitrogen-rich atmosphere and underground liquid-water oceans, where the skies rain methane to fill lakes and flowing rivers on the surface. Dragonfly is poised to get an up-close look at all of it, and possibly discover clues to the origins of life on the moon. Dragonfly will be NASA’s first…

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NASA Names Two Diversity Champions for Agency

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday he is taking additional steps forward to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) at the agency. Nelson named Steve Shih to serve in a new position as the agency’s first Diversity Ambassador and selected Elaine Ho as the next associate administrator for the Office of Diversity an

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