[ad_1] The Smithsonian is encouraging the public to view, use and reuse the content however they see fit. The collection is listed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which removes previous restrictions and copyrights, and it includes everything from portraits of Ida B. Wells to images of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega 5B, 3D models […]
Category: Space
NASA says its InSight lander has detected over 450 ‘marsquakes’
[ad_1] NASA has also revealed that the largest quake SEIS found was around magnitude 4.0 in size, which is milder than scientists expected. That’s not quite strong enough to get readings from the planet’s lower mantle and core, though, which scientists are hoping to get. InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt described those layers as the […]
Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101
[ad_1] Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Katherine Johnson not only helped calculate the trajectories that took our Apollo astronauts to the Moon — she was champion for women and minorities in the space program and the world as a whole. We honor her memory today. https://t.co/kH9qEEvdMY pic.twitter.com/A341ukDFTl — Women@NASA (@WomenNASA) February 24, 2020 Johnson was born in […]
Flat Earth advocate dies after homemade rocket crashes
[ad_1] Hughes’ goal had been to verify his belief in a disc-shaped Earth by flying to space, with successive launches taking him higher and higher in altitude. His first rocket launch in 2014 took him to 1,374ft, but successive launches didn’t travel much higher. A 2018 flight peaked at 1,875 feet. It’s not clear at […]
‘Hardspace: Shipbreaker’ is a PC game about salvaging space junk
[ad_1] Its newest game, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, sees players take on the role of a blue collar space ship salvager. You owe a nefarious megacorp called Lynx about a billion credits, so you spend your days stripping down decommissioned ships for parts, bidding on salvage jobs and hunting out valuable materials in a bid to clear […]
SpaceX lost another Falcon booster to the sea
[ad_1] The booster was expected to land on a drone ship, called Of Course I Still Love You, approximately eight minutes and 24 seconds after launch. Instead, the booster made a “soft landing” in the ocean next to the ship. Falcon 9 B1056.4 has missed the drone ship. pic.twitter.com/259Yh545uy — Chris B – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) […]
Rocket Lab will launch a NASA cubesat to the Moon
[ad_1] The tiny satellite (it weighs just 55lbs) will first conduct a navigation demo with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, but it’s ultimately meant to be a “pathfinder” that will help the Artemis program’s Gateway spacecraft safely approach the Moon. This deal isn’t surprising given the current NASA administration’s privatization efforts. At the same time, it […]
SpaceX delivers the Crew Dragon capsule to its launch site
[ad_1] The SpaceX Crew Dragon, which is slated to be the first spacecraft to carry humans to orbit from American soil since 2011, has arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch site. NASA and SpaceX are already preparing the vehicle for its first flight manned test and will put it through final testing and prelaunch processing […]
NASA gives four projects $3 million to develop potential space missions
[ad_1] The first of the potential missions is called Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus or DAVINCI+. It would analyze the atmosphere of Venus and attempt to determine if the planet had an ocean in the past. It would also help scientists better understand how the planet’s atmosphere formed. Another […]
‘Apollo 13’ returns to theaters for three days in April
[ad_1] These re-releases are often marketing ploys, but it’s fun to be able to see classic movies on the big screen, so it’s hard to complain. Apollo 13 is notable for the extent to which the cast and crew went in order to accurately recreate the mission. While some elements — like the line, “Houston, […]