[ad_1] Houston-based Intuitive Machines ready its Odysseus lander to land on the moon today, a thrilling one-hour, 13-minute descent from orbit to become the first American-built spacecraft to maintain a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first carried out by a private company. A day after braking into a 57-mile-high orbit inclined … Read more
[ad_1] A private American lunar lander reached the Moon and entered low orbit on Wednesday, a day before it attempts an even greater feat: landing on the gray, dusty surface. A safe landing would return the United States to the Moon for the first time since NASA astronauts closed the Apollo program in 1972. The … Read more
[ad_1] Orlando, Florida. – This weekend, the “Snow Moon” is expected to appear in the Florida night sky. According to NASAThis term indicates a full moon that occurs in February, when there is usually a lot of snow, hence the nickname. The last Snow Moon will grace the skies around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. (EXCLUSIVE: Become … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX has successfully launched the first private lunar lander to the moon, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative and the Artemis campaign. The Nova-C lander, developed by Intuitive Machines, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at … Read more
[ad_1] By Sue NelsonFeatures Correspondent fake images Five decades after the last of the Apollo missions, the Moon is once again a target of space exploration. But NASA no longer has lunar exploration to itself. The number of astronauts who walked on the Moon has not changed in more than 50 years. Only 12 human … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Artemis mission has embarked on a journey to the Moon with the launch of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander, called Odysseus, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:05 am EST. This initiative, part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program and the broader Artemis … Read more
[ad_1] Another month, another attempt at the moon. A robotic lunar lander was launched into space early Thursday morning. If all goes well, in nine days it will become the first American spacecraft to softly touch down on the lunar surface since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972. It would also become the first … Read more
[ad_1] Humans have always looked to the sky, using the stars as navigation guides or to tell spiritual stories. Every human civilization has looked to the stars and used celestial movements to measure time and find meaning. This insatiable thirst for knowledge combined with technological advances has made it possible for us to dream of … Read more
[ad_1] A strange little moon orbiting near Saturn has just revealed its biggest mystery: a hidden ocean beneath its cratered surface. The Animal Kingdom imagines a world where humans become animals Mimas is less than 198 kilometers (123 miles) wide, too small to be perfectly round, and its icy shell is covered in deep scars … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed two flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io. February 7, 2024, 4:23 pm Eastern Time • 4 minutes of reading In new images Captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, fiery volcanic activity is seen erupting on Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is the third largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons and is the … Read more