Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) assists flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock.
Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) assists flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock.
In this illustration, two neutron stars are beginning to merge, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris. Among the debris are “r-process” elements, such as radioactive plutonium-244. The amount of this element in Earth’s oceanic crust suggests such an event occurred near Earth more than 100 million years ago.A. Simonnet…
NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon’s south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and…
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX SpaceX is getting ready to kick off the back half of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday night. The Starlink 17-46 mission will…
Euclid studies Milky Way center, supports future Roman observations – NASASpaceFlight.com
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Orion and Gateway in Lunar Orbit. Credit: NASA Today, Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reset NASA’s Moon program. Sean Duffy announced today that he was re-opening NASA’s HLS contract. As a justification, Duffy stated that SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander was behind schedule and its delays put at risk NASA landing astronauts on the Moon by…
On the 17th of June Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The latest generation of Europe’s largest and most powerful rocket launched 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation. The debut of the four new boosters based on the P160C solid-propellant rocket motor allowed 36 satellites to be launched,…
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