The Air Force’s X-37B space plane landed in Florida after a record-breaking 718-day mission. Credit: Secretary of the US Air Force’s Public Affairs The U.S. Air Force’s uncrewed X-37B space plane has completed a record-setting 718-day flight. Space.com reports that the robotic craft landed in Florida on May 7 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at […]
The record-shattering mission of the U.S. Air Force’s robotic X-37B space plane is finally over. After circling Earth for an unprecedented 718 days, the X-37B touched down Sunday (May 7) at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — the first landing at the SLF since the final space […]
Leave it to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking to be the bearer of incredibly interesting yet wildly depressing news about the state of the world. In his forthcoming documentary for BBC, Expedition New Earth, Hawking predicts that planet Earth will only survive for the next 100 years. In other words, the world as we know it will be gone in the next […]
The Air Force’s unmanned aircraft X37B succesfully lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Sunday morning. CREDIT: DOD The Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 landed at NASA ‘s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility May 7, 2017. Managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the X-37B program is the newest and most […]
http://www.seattlepi.com/aboutus/article/Eerie-raw-photos-from-Cassini-s-2nd-great-Saturn-11127843.php#photo-12860532 JAKE ELLISON, SPECIAL TO SEATTLEPI.COM Updated 5:09 pm, Sunday, May 7, 2017 This movie sequence of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the view as Cassini swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings on April 26. Media: Tronc – LA Times With its cameras pointed […]
SpaceX hopes to deploy a constellation of satellites to provide high-speed internet to the entire planet. Credit: AMNH SpaceX and Tesla-founder Elon Musk has made some rather bold promises over the years. In addition to building a fleet of reusable rockets, an Interplanetary Transport System, colonizing Mars, and revolutionizing transportation, he has also made it […]
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An unpiloted military space plane, launched by an Atlas 5 rocket in May 2015, glided to an unannounced landing on the long shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, closing out a 718-day mission. It was the first Florida landing of a returning spacecraft since Atlantis flew home in the program’s final mission […]
French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet was able to accomplish something truly unique aboard the International Space Station recently. Despite being hundreds of miles away from his home country, Pesquet was able to cast his vote in the French election with the help of a friend as France goes through one of its most turbulent election in […]
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