Scott Kelly recently returned to the International Space Station – during a trip to Berlin. The first American astronaut to spend more than 500 days off the planet, including nearly a year aboard the space station during his fourth and final spaceflight in 2016, Kelly was in Germany when he returned to his exotic home … Read more
Four new astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Friday as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will launch on March 1 at 12:04 a.m. EST (0504 GMT). Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft, located atop a Falcon 9 … Read more
To light up the deep night sky, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander on a flight to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the moon’s surface in more than fifty years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A SpaceX rocket took off for the International Space Station on another groundbreaking mission conducted entirely by the private sector. On board are a group of European astronauts, including the first person from Turkey to … Read more
NASA Claim: A female NASA astronaut sabotaged the International Space Station Judgement: Rating: unproven In 2018, the question of whether a hole had been deliberately drilled in the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 by a saboteur led to an investigation led by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Iterations of the claim appeared on X and a … Read more
Concept image of the proposed United States Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory.Heritage Space/Heritage Images via Getty Images The Manned Orbiting Laboratory was an American proposal to send a manned spy satellite into space in the 1960s. It would obtain high-resolution photographic images of American adversaries, such as the Soviet Union. The top-secret program has faced … Read more
Astronauts have described some unusual smells in space, which isn’t surprising considering that the chemistry there is very different from that on Earth. What does space smell like, and what are the cosmic sources of these smells? Space is an airless vacuum, so technically you can’t smell anything in space. If you tried, you’d be … Read more
Screenshot of SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy rocket on the launch pad. This photo was taken during the SpaceX livestream on X.SpaceX This year the world has achieved several major successes in the race to space. They include SpaceX sending its most powerful rocket to space and India reaching the moon. Here’s everything you need to know … Read more
Of all the freeze-dried, thermostable and ready-to-eat food products she helped send into space, Vickie Kloeris’ personal favorite was the cherry-blueberry cobbler. Kloeris was a food scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for 34 years and not only enjoyed the cobbler, but helped develop it. “During the shuttle program, we weren’t really doing … Read more