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NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get a close look at Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30
NASA’s Juno mission will come closer to Jupiter’s moon Io on Saturday (December 30) than any spacecraft has in about 20 years. The flyby will take Juno to about 1,500 kilometers from Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. This allows the spacecraft to view Io in detail while collecting a wealth of … Read more
Several notable space missions are planned for 2024
The SpaceX “Starship” will launch on November 18 on its second test flight from Orbital Launch Pad 1 at the company’s Starbase Facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI Dec. 29 (UPI) — The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of … Read more
10 exciting spaceflight missions to watch in 2024
Next year will undoubtedly be packed with exciting spaceflight missions, from highly anticipated rocket launches to incredible moon missions – including some involving lunar landers and crewed flights – a new Jupiter probe heading into the far-flung and even a demonstration flight of a new International Space Station supply spacecraft. With that in mind, here … Read more
NASA outlines plan to deploy burrowing ‘cryobots’ on icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter
NASA is working on a roadmap for robots that could visit ocean worlds via future space missions and crack the world’s thick, icy shells to explore subterranean seas in search of life. Recently, the space agency unveiled the results of a NASA-sponsored workshop held in February 2023 that brought together scientists and engineers to discuss … Read more
From the moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are scheduled to launch in 2024
The year 2023 proved to be a big year for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample of an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the moon’s south pole, and 2024 will be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative … Read more
Two American companies launch spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other
A pair of companies plan to launch unmanned spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year in a NASA-funded effort that could mark the first soft landings for the United States on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972. But in a sign of how the … Read more
Thirty years ago, astronauts saved the Hubble Space Telescope
It’s been about 30 years since NASA astronauts… Hubble Space Telescope on an extremely daring mission. At the time, it was perhaps the most daring mission scientists had conceived. In short, Hubble was launched in 1990 with defective optics that produced blurry images. Fortunately, however, there is the space telescope that orbits the Earth Soil, … Read more
Two American companies launch spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other
A pair of companies plan to launch unmanned spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year in a NASA-funded effort that could mark the first soft landings for the United States on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972. But in a sign of how the … Read more
Actor Daniel Stern on Leading NASA in ‘For All Mankind’
If there is indeed a multiverse in which every possible outcome occurs, then in one of those universes Marv Murchins, one half of the “Wet Bandits” from “Home Alone,” serves as NASA administrator. As unlikely as that may seem, something similar is playing out in the current season of “For All Mankind.” Actor Daniel Stern, … Read more