Topic: nasa

Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump's reaction 'hysteria'

Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump's reaction 'hysteria'

Maria Kiselyova and Andrew Osborn, Reuters
Posted at Jun 01 07:11 AM

MOSCOW - Russia's space agency criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's "hysteria" about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space.   Read more »

US astronauts enter space station in milestone mission

US astronauts enter space station in milestone mission

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 01 07:32 AM

NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise. Read more »

SpaceX Falcon 9 makes historic launch

SpaceX Falcon 9 makes historic launch

Steve Nesius, Reuters
Posted at May 31 11:03 AM

An American flag is seen as SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. on Saturday.  Read more »

Weather delays SpaceX's first astronaut launch from Florida

Weather delays SpaceX's first astronaut launch from Florida

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of May 28 05:53 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company, was forced by foul weather to scrub a planned launch on Wednesday of two Americans into orbit from Florida, a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. Read more »

Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch it peak in night skies

Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch it peak in night skies

Nicholas St. Fleur, The New York Times
Posted at May 04 01:45 PM

All year long, as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris — trails of rocks and ice left behind by comets. When Earth passes through them, the bits of debris, which can be as small as grains of sand, pierce the sky at such speeds that they burst, creating a meteor shower. Read more »

Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts

Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts

Reuters
Posted at Apr 17 03:55 PM

ALMATY - NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare official said, because of lockdowns caused by the novel coronavirus.   Read more »

Soyuz MS-16 set for launch amid COVID-19 pandemic

Soyuz MS-16 set for launch amid COVID-19 pandemic

Handout, Russian space agency Roscosmos via Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 04:43 PM

The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft for the next International Space Station (ISS) crew, formed of Chris Cassidy of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, is prepared on Monday amid new constraints due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ahead of its upcoming launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The mission is set to launch on April 9, 2020 at 04:05 EDT (08:05 UTC) from Site 31/6 at the cosmodrome and will mark the first time the Soyuz 2.1a rocket will be used to launch people.  Read more »

Coronavirus spoils NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

Coronavirus spoils NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 20 07:32 PM

WASHINGTON - The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA's plan to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the illness. Read more »

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