by rmil2k | Oct 13, 2023 | News
Many of us have dreamed about flying over the surface of Mars—someday. The planet offers so many cool places to study, and doing it in person is something for future Marsnauts to consider. The Mars Express spacecraft has been mapping the Red Planet for years. It now...
by rmil2k | Oct 13, 2023 | News
Enabling & Support 12/10/2023 1344 views 49 likes When astronauts return to the lunar surface they are probably going to be doing more driving than walking – but to keep billowing moondust at bay they are going to need roads. An ESA project reported in today’s...
by rmil2k | Oct 12, 2023 | News
We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft carry astronauts for the first time.The first crewed test flight of Starliner has been pushed back an additional month, to no earlier than mid-April 2024, NASA officials said in a release...
by rmil2k | Oct 12, 2023 | News
The wide-field view of the Cygnus Loop was taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter at KPNO. Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and WIYN/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA. The Cygnus Loop is one of the most spectacular examples of a veiled stellar corpse that is accessible to...
by rmil2k | Oct 12, 2023 | News
Even with the clearest image from the best telescope in the world, astronomers still won’t know what they’re looking at. It takes a fundamental understanding of physics, particularly how light works, to glean scientific data from the images that telescopes like the...
