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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 […]
The Perseverance Rover has just successfully landed on Mars after traveling almost 300 million miles. The rover, nicknamed “Percy” by mission control, left Earth around 6 months and finally touched down onto the surface of mars, sending back this photo: Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X — NASA’s Perseverance Mars […]
SpaceX has made its first official crewed journey to the International Space Station. The 4 astronauts are piloting the Resilience: the newest rocket from Space X. Its made of new age materials, like titanium, aluminum and carbon fiber and can withstand temperatures higher than 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit. “I think all of us can agree 2020 […]
Elon Musk told the world on social media that he might have COVID-19. He said that he took 4 tests in one day, 2 of which were positive and 2 of which were negative. It is unclear as too whether or not this news will impact the SpaceX plans to launch astronauts to the international […]
NASA officials just announced that they discovered where the leak on the International Space Station is coming from. Flight controllers and astronauts have been trying to identify the source, as the leak has been growing for weeks. NASA announced on Tuesday that they found the leak in the main work area of the Russian Zvezda […]
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will become the first black woman to be a crew member on the International Space Station. On Tuesday, NASA said Epps will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada on a 2021 mission aboard a Boeing-built Starliner spacecraft. Epps has a doctorate in aerospace engineering. Served seven years as a technical […]
The year 2020 ‘could end with a bang,’ literally. According to scientists from NASA a huge asteroid on it’s way and could possibly hit Earth. NASA says projected it could hit us the day before the presidential election in November. I tell you Trump will do anything to stay in office… just kidding. The size […]
On May 31st a SpaceX crew named Dragon–the spacecraft’s name is Endeavour–took off in a Falcon 9 rocket located at the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Whether or not they land today comes down to, the weather. What I want to know is–who is in charge of naming these things? […]