By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A navigation timing error sent NASA’s little Mars helicopter on a wild, lurching ride, its first major problem since it took to the Martian skies last month. The experimental helicopter, named Ingenuity,…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule, the third crew flight in less than a year for Elon Musk’s rapidly expanding company. The astronauts from the U.S., Japan and…
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter has taken flight.
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is gearing up for its third astronaut launch in under a year, after getting the green light from NASA a week ahead of next Thursday’s planned flight. Managers from NASA and…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA completed an engine test firing of its moon rocket Thursday, after the first attempt in January ended prematurely. This time, the four main engines of the rocket’s core stage remained ignited for the full…
Source: NASA Perseverance is sending back wind sounds from Mars. The super cam microphone is located at the top of the rover's mast. The recording might sound a bit muffled because the mast was still down.…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest Mars rover hit the dusty red road this week, putting 21 feet on the odometer in its first test drive. The Perseverance rover ventured from its landing position Thursday, two…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered onto the dusty red surface. The photo was released less…
The first private space station crew has been introduced a year ahead of the planned launch.
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is considering a second firing of its moon rocket engines after a critical test came up short over the weekend. That could bump the first flight in NASA's…
If you are in or near Hancock County Saturday, you may feel the ground shake and hear the roar of rocket engines. NASA will test-fire all four engines at once on its new space launch system at…
Arizona's Grand Canyon may have met its match and it's not even on this planet. NASA released this photo of a canyon on Mars, the largest canyon in our solar system. It stretches over 2,500 miles across the Martian equator…
SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station, kicking off regular crew flights from the U.S.
An out-of-this-world discovery; the Rosetta Mission just revealed Comet 67P has its own Northern Lights! NASA says this is the first time an ultraviolet aurora has been detected on a celestial object that isn't a moon or planet. The findings…
NASA has released amazing new images of the weather on Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope. A crisp photo taken from 406-million miles way shows wild storms and colorful cloud bands on the gas giant. One of the stormy weather…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A fundraising drive has reached its goal of bringing in $1.5 million to save Space Camp from closing because of the coronavirus pandemic. A corporate donation of $250,000 by the technology company SAIC Inc. pushed the…
They’re launching a “Save Space Camp” fundraising drive
Source: NASA The search for ancient life on Mars continues with the launch of a new rover set to take off for the red planet this week! NASA is hoping to launch its latest rover, “Perseverance," this Thursday, July 30th.…
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Apollo 13's astronauts still shun superstition 50 years after their harrowing moonshot. Mission commander Jim Lovell and Fred Haise say they never gave a thought to their mission number…
Thanks to Pink Floyd, we know what the "dark side of the moon" sounds like and now we know what the far side of the moon looks like. The lunar reconnaissance orbiter spacecraft is sending data that gives us the…
Katherine Johnson, one of the women profiled in the hit film "Hidden Figures," died Monday at the age of 101. Johnson is a mathematician who calculated the flight path for America's first space mission and the first landing on the…
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (WXXV) — Dorothy Brown readily acknowledges that she loves a challenge. The fact that she is continuing to build on a two-decade career of work at Stennis Space Center is clear evidence of her determination to…
NASA employees are applauding the president’s proposed budget today. The space agency’s administrator spoke to workers at Stennis Space Center, which is testing the rocket which will go to the moon. Administrator Jim Bridenstine shared the news that the president’s…