Europeans, Australia pass astronaut basic training
by Five new European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency are now ready to “hop” into their first flight assignments, after completing …
Tag: Space Exploration
‘Astrobiodefense:’ Thinktank seeks to protect Earth from space bugs
Artist’s rendering of a sample return mission to Mars. NASA is going to offer to respond to that tough report issued by the Independent Review …
NASA was America’s crown jewel. It was never the same after the Columbia disaster
Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of …
NASA was America’s crown jewel. It was never the same after the Columbia disaster
Note to the Editor: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the …
The Texas Eclipse Festival offers a ‘choose your own adventure experience’ for April’s total solar eclipse
On April 8, 2024, a range of cities from Texas through Ohio and up to Maine will be directly in the path to experience a …
Are the Artemis Agreements enough?
In February, Uruguay became the 36th country to sign the Artemis Accords, a set of non-binding principles for responsible actions to spawn on the moon. …
How Earth’s new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions
The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory will never leave Earth itself, but the highly detailed “big picture” view of the cosmos it will offer scientists …
You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon. Just because you can’t means you should
Illustration of a metallic moon lander. When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more …