Tag: NASA
NASA spacecraft will aim straight for sun next year
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will aim straight for the sun next year and bear the name of the astrophysicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind nearly 60 years ago.
The space agency announced Wednesday that the red-hot mission would be named after Eugene Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. It’s the first NASA spacecraft to be named after a researcher who is still alive, noted the agency’s science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen.
SpaceX taking recycling all way to orbit for NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is taking recycling to a whole new realm — all the way to orbit.
On this week’s supply run to the International Space Station, SpaceX will launch a Dragon capsule that’s already traveled there. The milestone comes just two months after the launch of its first reused rocket booster.
Astronauts do some space walking to service urgent station repairs
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts completed urgent repairs at the International Space Station on Tuesday, replacing equipment that failed three days earlier...
Astronauts ace station’s 200th spacewalk, shortened by leak
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An equipment water leak shortened Friday's spacewalk by two U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station, but they still...
Military orbiter’s landing rattles Florida with sonic boom
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- U.S. military officials say an unmanned spacecraft orbiting Earth since May 2015 has landed in Florida.
The Air Force posted...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flies between Saturn and rings in historic 1st
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft ventured Wednesday into the never-before-explored region between Saturn and its rings.
But flight controllers won't know how...
