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Russia is Partnering with China to Get an Asteroid Sample and to Study a Comet
Russian space program which has been dormant for decades and which has mainly focused on ISS transportation is waking up after its long sleep to start its space programs again with the upcoming Luna 25 mission in October 2021. Now its also partnering with the Chinese Space program to get an asteroid sample and to […]
Russia’s Return to the Moon and Future Russian Moon Mission Plans
Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon. It must be remembered that Soviets were the first nation to send a probe to the moon and Soviet Moon Missions were very important during the Space Race. Now the Russian Federation Space […]
Soyuz crew launches to ISS space station to Celebrate the 60 years after first human spaceflight
A three-person crew embarked for the International Space Station on Friday (April 9), launching just three days shy of the 60th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei lifted off aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft for a three-hour, […]
NASA delays Ingenuity Mars UAV Helicopter initial atmospheric flight to April 11
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will have to wait a few more days to make its historic first flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity, which flew to Mars tucked into the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the planet Feb. 18, is set to make history with the first controlled, powered flight through […]
The Covid19 Pandemic will Cost NASA Around 3 Billion Dollars
A NASA audit concluded that costs imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on the agency could reach $3 billion, with several major science and exploration programs accounting for much of that cost. A March 31 report by the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) stated that the agency expects that the pandemic’s effects on the agency, […]
Virgin Galactic Aborts SpaceShipTwo Suborbital Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo aborted an attempted suborbital spaceflight Dec. 12 from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle named VSS Unity by the company, took off from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico at 10:24 a.m. Eastern. Piloting SpaceShipTwo were Dave Mackay, the company’s chief test pilot, and […]
SpaceX Starship prototype makes first high-altitude flight but explodes during landing
SpaceX performed the first high-altitude test flight of a prototype of its Starship launch vehicle Dec. 9, with the vehicle successfully lifting off the pad but exploding when attempting a landing several minutes later. The Starship SN8 vehicle lifted off from SpaceX’s test site at Boca Chica, Texas, at approximately 5:45 p.m. Eastern. The flight […]
Chinese Chang’e-5 spacecraft smashes into moon after completing mission
The Chang’e-5 ascent vehicle which carried precious samples into lunar orbit was commanded to crash into the moon Dec. 7 after completing its role in the mission. Mission control sent commands to the spacecraft at 5:59 p.m. Eastern Dec. 7, resulting in the ascent vehicle impacting the moon around 6:30 p.m., the China Lunar Exploration […]
Virgin Galactic prepares for its first spaceflight from New Mexico
Virgin Galactic announced Dec. 1 that is had rescheduled a powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane for a window that opens Dec. 11 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Pilots CJ Sturckow and David Mackay will fly the vehicle on a trajectory that will go above the 80-kilometer altitude that the company defines […]
Chang’e-5 spacecraft Lands on the Moon
The lander-ascender combination of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe has successfully landed on the Mons Rumker area of the huge volcanic plain Oceanus Procellarum, known as the “Ocean of Storms,” on the near side of the moon on Tuesday evening, China’s National Space Administration said. The CNSA informed the Global Times that the lunar probe has […]