[ad_1] SLOPE has a large, adjustable soil bin, which allowed the rover’s engineers to gather the data needed to evaluate the traction of the vehicle and its wheels. The test also gave them a way to compare different methods for traversing steep slopes to determine the most feasible ones. Its results will help them figure […]
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Christina Koch breaks record for longest spaceflight by a woman
[ad_1] This won’t be the longest spaceflight of all time. Scott Kelly set the US record by staying in space for 340 consecutive days between 2015 and 2016, while Russia’s Valeri Polyakov spent just over 437 days aboard Mir. It’s still a very long stretch, however, and it comes on the back of Koch joining […]
Hitting the Books: How America’s Space Race sought to renew our ‘New South’
[ad_1] NASA and the Long Civil Rights MovementEdited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring At its inception, NASA, and space exploration in general, was billed as an endeavor “for the benefit of all mankind.” However, the reality of the situation was far more messy. Eisenhower complained of the cost while leaders of the […]
Boeing Starliner is the first US-made crew capsule to land on the ground
[ad_1] Starliner didn’t dock with the International Space Station as planned, but it still collected ample amounts of data across the flight, including Rosie’s insights as to how humans would fare during a trip. The team likely collected about 85 to 90 percent of what they were looking for, Boeing’s Jim Chilton said during a […]
Watch Boeing’s Starliner attempt a landing starting at 6:45AM ET
[ad_1] Starliner may not have successfully docked with the International Space Station as planned, but Boeing is still happy with the “enormous amount of data” collected during the flight, according to senior VP Jim Chilton. NASA director Jim Bridenstine, meanwhile, said that the team understood the timing signal problem that soured the docking attempt and […]
Watch Boeing’s Starliner test launch at 6:36AM ET
[ad_1] Last year around this time we talked about all of the delays going into the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing, who are competing to build a new spaceflight system that NASA can use to take astronauts to the ISS. Since then, SpaceX successfully sent its Crew Dragon on an uncrewed test flight […]
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover passes its driving test
[ad_1] Rieber said in a statement: “The test unambiguously proved that the rover can operate under its own weight and demonstrated many of the autonomous-navigation functions for the first time. This is a major milestone for Mars 2020.” The rover’s ground team is optimistic that the rover will perform well on Mars if it was […]
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet is cleared for final assembly
[ad_1] This is NASA’s first large-scale, piloted x-plane (or experimental aircraft) in more than three decades, and its goal is to reduce the loudness of a sonic boom to more of a sonic thump. When the long, slender jet transitions to supersonic speed, it will make about as much noise a car door closing, and […]
NASA finds water ice just below the surface of Mars
[ad_1] Researchers created the map of the Martian surface which shows where water ice is believed to be located. In some places, the ice is as little as 2.5 centimeters below the surface, making it easily accessible to future visitors. Cool colors represent ice closer to the surface, while warm colors are ice deeper down. […]
NASA unveils ‘the most powerful rocket ever built’
[ad_1] The SLS has just completed its latest round of testing. To test the fuel tank, a test rig structurally like the real SLS liquid hydrogen tank was subjected to compression, tension and bending forces and its structural integrity was measured by thousands of sensors which detected stress, pressure and temperature. NASA also used cameras […]