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Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shares a report from Ars Technica: Frank Borman, an Air Force test pilot, astronaut, and accomplished businessman who led the first crew to fly to the Moon in 1968, died Tuesday in Montana, NASA said Thursday. He was…
About 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will streak through space within 32,200 km of Earth.
Astronaut and his crew were the first people to see Earth as a distant sphere in spaceFrank Borman, the astronaut who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the followi…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Ken Mattingly, who orbited the moon and commanded a pair of NASA shuttle missions, but who was remembered as well for the flight he didn’t make — the near-disastrous mission of Apollo 13 — …
NASA is demonstrating laser communications on multiple missions — showcasing the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data. NASA: The International Space Station is getting a “flashy…
“It’s not every day that you get to update the firmware on a device that was produced in the 1970s,” writes Hackaday, “and rarely is said device well beyond the boundaries of our solar system.
“This is however exactly what the JPL team in charge of th…
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Times have changed and India is capable of building the best of devices and rockets and that is why PM Modi has opened the space sector to private players, the ISRO chief saidChennai: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath Sunday said NASA-JPL experts wanted India to share its space technology with the US after witnessing the developmental activities of Chandrayaan-3
Aditya L1, India’s first solar mission by the Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO), will study the photosphere, chromosphere, and the
outermost layers of the Sun (the corona)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is a solar mission by the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA). It is the first spacecraft to fly into the Sun’s
corona, its outermost atmosphere.
NASA’s
Amid varying levels of cloud cover, Americans gathered and donned special glasses for rare celestial show‘Ring of fire’ annular solar eclipse: in picturesIt was a moment that won’t happen again for 16 years – and Mother Nature obscured it in some place…