--that saw the helicopter 'go farther and faster than ever before' by soaring 16 feet and traveling 872 feet across the surface
NASA received a data downlink from Mars confirming Ingenuity took off
SpaceX is performing a test flight of Starship SN15. The prototype will aim to be the first Starship vehicle to softly land during a high altitude flight test. Like the previous Starship prototypes, SN15 is expected to fly to approximately 10 kilomet
"I was the most lonesome person in the whole universe, at least according to the newspapers," Collins joked in a 2014 NASA panel. "Actually, I was so glad to get behind the moon so Mission Control would shut up."
Just over a week after it lost out on a high-profile and lucrative contract to build the next spacecraft that would land astronauts on the moon, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin filed a protest over NASA's decision, saying it was flawed.
Update (April 24): SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday at 0508 ET, about 24 hours after blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover that landed on the Red Planet Feb. 18 after a seven-month journey from Earth.
What exactly makes the SpaceX lunar Starship so important and what exactly are the current design specs? Why did NASA choose it as the only viable solution to fly Artemis Astronauts to the Moon? Let's find out!
After some delay, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter was given the "all-clear for takeoff" on Sunday. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent instructions for the Mars helicopter to liftoff.
NASA has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface.
It's been a few months since we had our last meteor shower, but the night sky is about to light up once again--with starry streaks brightening the night.
Zachary Manchester of Carnegie Mellon University has received a phase 1 NASA NIAC grant and will study how to create mechanical metamaterials to design lightweight deployable structures with unprecedented expansion ratios of 150x or more.
On the very same day that dogecoin has decided to "moon", Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a major $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft that will put astronauts on the moon.
A veteran rocket designer and former SpaceX engineer is forming a small-satellite launch company based on the concept that modern rockets should be produced less like custom-made vehicles and more like automobiles and airplanes.