Space Contents Archive

During today’s flight, the capsule escape system successfully separated the capsule from the booster. The booster impacted the ground. There are no reported injuries; all personnel have been accounted for.

Bill Nelson: Everybody Poo-Pooed SpaceX. Look at Them Now

Dwarf planet collision may have sent strange ultra-hard diamonds to Earth

This just in: Our #Artemis I flight test around the Moon will launch no earlier than Sept. 27, with a backup opportunity of Oct. 2 under review. See the blog for details about ongoing work and testing, and potential launch windows: https://t.co/v3dY3xql7J https://t.co/JclWbUonEW

Solar Orbiter was hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection as it was About to Make a Flyby of Venus

Rewinding a supernova ⏪ Data from Hubble and @chandraxray helped astronomers “turn back the clock” on the debris of an exploded star, known as SNR 0519, seen in this image. Find out more about this discovery: https://t.co/R2Sbb0f5Qe https://t.co/RN2EbyWxl5

List of jobs if you want to work in the space industry

NASA’s unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission is more than ‘billiards in space,’ scientists say

#OTD in 2013, it was announced that @NASAVoyager 1 had indeed left the heliosphere as of Aug. 25, 2012 and was in interstellar space. On Nov. 5, 2018, Voyager 2 became the 2nd spacecraft in history to go interstellar. Learn more about interstellar space: https://t.co/d1ZZhy7ede https://t.co/h7ETWpPee4

Here's a look at the failure of Blue Origin's New Shepard booster about a minute after liftoff this morning from West Texas. The crew capsule fired its 70,000-pound thrust abort motor to escape the rocket before parachuting to a safe landing. https://t.co/zFP9nJ7ONR https://t.co/vL6kjrqzM8

Question: Seeing blue origin's abort made me think, why isn't it more reconsised that with 3 dead in a ground engine test and 1 dead on a flight test that virgin does not seem to value safety with an inherently dangerous spacecraft (not an expert at all btw so maybe change my mind?)

Microgravity offers a unique opportunity for cancer research. By removing gravity, we can grow cancer cells closer to how they appear in the human body. @NASA joins President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot team in the fight to accelerate cancer prevention and precision health. https://t.co/tzICROmoOY

As Mission Specialist aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-47) Dr. Mae Jemison became the first woman of color in space #30YearsAgo today on Sept. 12, 1992. Throughout the mission, she began communications on her shift with the salute "Hailing frequencies open." 🖖 #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/ka89XklvXa

Four members of the Exp 67 crew took Monday off as the rest of the crew prepped to return to Earth at the end of the month. https://t.co/FhstAf9vQi

Cloudy Full Moon