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[ad_1] NASA and SpaceX have announced a 24-hour weather delay for their planned launch of four astronauts into orbit for America’s first full-fledged human mission using a privately owned spacecraft. Take-off time slipped from Saturday to Sunday evening due to forecasts of ground wind gusts over Florida – remnants of …

[ad_1] NASA and SpaceX delayed the launch of their first regular commercial manned flight by one day due to weather conditions that could threaten recovery operations at sea if the Dragon capsule were to disrupt flight during ascent. SpaceX will send four astronauts to the International Space Station Sunday evening …

[ad_1] NASA and high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX space company announced on Friday a 24-hour weather delay for their planned launch of four astronauts into orbit for NASA’s first full-fledged human mission using a spacecraft of private property. Take-off time slipped from Saturday to Sunday evening due to forecasts of …

[ad_1] A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered to life and swept away from Cape Canaveral with a dramatic sunset launch, resulting in a spectacular Friday 13th sky show visible over Florida’s Space Coast. Running nine days late due to problems with ground equipment, the rocket’s Russian-built RD-180 main …

[ad_1] The launch of the SpaceX rocket, which will carry four astronauts to the International Space Station, has been delayed from Saturday to Sunday due to winds in the Kennedy Space Center area, the NASA chief announced today. The launch is now scheduled for Sunday at 19:27 local time (00:27 …

[ad_1] Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft, or MAVEN, have found that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is carried higher into the atmosphere than anyone expected was possible. There, it is easily destroyed by electrically charged gas particles – or …

[ad_1] Sensors on NASA’s Perseverance will help prepare for future human exploration by making meteorological measurements and studying dust particles. Mars is about to receive a new stream of weather reports once NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on February 18, 2021. As it scours Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial …

[ad_1] A rocket launched into the abyss of space during a 1966 mission to the moon was captured by Earth’s gravity and will orbit our planet “for a few weeks”. NASA launched the unmanned Surveyor 2 probe to the moon in 1966, but a mid-flight problem led to the spacecraft …

[ad_1] A rocket launched into the abyss of space during a 1966 mission to the moon was captured by Earth’s gravity and will orbit our planet “for a few weeks”. NASA launched the unmanned Surveyor 2 probe to the moon in 1966, but a mid-flight problem led to the spacecraft …

[ad_1] When stars like the sun burn all their fuel, they lose their outer layers and the star’s core shrinks. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers discovered a bubble of superheated gas at the center of one of these effusive stars, the planetary nebula IC 4593. The IC 4593 nebula …