LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | NASA and SpaceX are targeting this Thursday to launch the 30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, the agency said on Monday. The launch is scheduled for 4:55 p.m. Thursday Eastern Time, lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in …
Read More »U.S. makes first lunar landing in over 50 years
LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | U.S. company Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander touched down on the Moon Thursday, marking the first American spacecraft to land on the lunar surface in more than 50 years. The uncrewed lander, named Odysseus, landed at the lunar South Pole at 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time, …
Read More »U.S. launches new private astronaut mission to space station
LOS ANGELES, North America | Xinhua | SpaceX and Axiom Space launched the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, as part of NASA’s efforts to open access to space. The mission, codenamed Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), is the first all-European commercial astronaut mission to …
Read More »1st U.S. asteroid sample mission returns sample to Earth
Los Angeles, US | Xinhua | NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, returned Bennu asteroid sample to Earth on Sunday. This marks America’s first sample return mission of its kind and “will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar …
Read More »NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 returns to Earth
Los Angeles, USA | Xinhua | NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down safely off the coast of the southeastern U.S. state of Florida on Saturday, NASA said. The four-member international crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata …
Read More »NASA’s Chandra observatory discovers giant black holes on collision courses
Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses, NASA said on Wednesday. This is the first evidence for such an impending encounter, providing scientists with important information about the growth …
Read More »Billionaire’s space race
Leaving planet earth in crisis is a terrible idea? | THE INDEPENDENT | The four minutes billionaires Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos spent in a state of weightlessness on the edge of space recently were historic feats in the burgeoning space tourism business, but many critics say Branson, Bezos …
Read More »Historic flights carry humans into space
Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos enter space race | THE INDEPENDENT | The sky over the Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was afire with lightning on the night of July 10. The storm was sufficiently fierce to postpone Virgin Galactic’s planned rollout of its twin airships, mothership …
Read More »Asteroid over 22 meters in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday — NASA
Washington, US | XINHUA | An asteroid with diameters between 22 and 49 meters will shoot pass Earth in a distance closer than Earth from the Moon on Tuesday, according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). “Will #asteroid 2011 ES4 hit Earth? No! 2011 ES4’s close approach …
Read More »How NASA launched Mars rover to seek signs of ancient life
Florida, USA | XINHUA | NASA has launched its Mars rover Perseverance in a bid to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The rover lifted off at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT Thursay) on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 …
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