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The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 will offer unprecedented opportunities for scientific study. The eclipse’s path, covering a densely populated corridor from Mexico through the U.S. to Canada, enables both professional scientists and “citizen scientists” to participate in a wide range of experiments. Activities planned include photographing the sun’s corona, observing animal behavior […]
NASA, in collaboration with Intuitive Machines, has successfully dispatched a Lunar Library to the moon, featuring technology developed by Stampertech, a Rochester-based company. This initiative is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services. The Lunar Library, etched onto nickel sheets, encompasses the entirety of the English Wikipedia, the Rosetta Project, and a comprehensive digital library […]
NASA plans to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by crashing it into the ocean at the end of 2030, marking the end of its over three-decade tenure orbiting Earth. The agency is collaborating with private companies—Axiom Space, Voyager Space, and Blue Origin—to develop a new space station that will be privately owned, built, and […]
At 90 years old, Ed Dwight, who was once on the path to becoming the first Black astronaut, is receiving recognition for his pioneering contributions. Growing up in segregated Kansas, Dwight’s fascination with flying led him to pursue an aviation career despite the racial barriers of the time. Selected by President John F. Kennedy’s administration […]
Yesterday, NASA named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three men. The three Americans and one Canadian were introduced during a ceremony in Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control. The four astronauts will be the first to […]
If you are interested in viewing NASA’s DART mission here is all the information you will need. Starting at 6pm NASA will be live broadcasting coverage of the DART mission. The mission is an attempt to deflect an asteroid from it’s path. DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. The mission began last year in […]
Looking for a front-row seat to NASA’s historic return to the moon? Well look no further than the Strasenburgh Planetarium! This Saturday afternoon, the first phase of the Artemis mission is scheduled to lift off after it had to be scrubbed earlier this week to resolve some engine issues. The unmanned rocket will fly by […]
Yesterday, NASA released breathtaking images from the James Webb Space Telescope, which launched last Christmas. Over 300 people worked on this project, including Rochester Institute of Technology and a local team L3 Harris. These images go as far back as 13 billion years. Rebecca Borrelli, L3 Harris engineer, stated: “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. There’s not […]
Mars, we accomplished that so what planet is up next? Venus of course! NASA announced this week that the next mission is to get to Venus to see and examine the planet. They want to look at Venus’s geological features and the planet’s atmosphere. The cost to explore Venus is about half a billion dollars […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well underway on its mission to see if there are any traces of life on the surface of Mars. The machine will spend the next few months roaming around the Martian landscape collecting samples that future missions will be bringing back to Earth. This mission is the first official astrobiological mission […]