Space
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SpaceX lands Starship rocket at its Texas base
May 6, 2021SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. The test flight represents a major... -
Astronaut Michael Collins has died
Apr 29, 2021Michael Collins, one of the successful astronauts to the moon in 1989, has died. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. News from the BBC. He took part in the first manned... -
NASA successfully flew the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars
Apr 19, 2021NASA successfully flew the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on Monday, data downloaded from the aircraft confirmed, reports BSS. “Altimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,” announced... -
NASA selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972
Apr 18, 2021NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said on Friday, in a huge victory for Elon Musk’s company. The contract, worth $2.9 billion, involves... -
NASA’s Mars copter flight could happen as soon as Monday
Apr 18, 2021NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue.... -
The largest asteroid to pass by Earth on March 21
Mar 13, 2021The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said on Thursday. The US space agency said it will... -
NASA intends to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time
Feb 16, 2021More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world. Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet... -
China’s Tianwen-1 probe sent back its first image of Mars
Feb 6, 2021China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in July around... -
Unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth
Dec 18, 2020An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth on early Thursday, completing the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples. While scientists hope the samples will give... -
Blue Origin to take the first woman to the moon’s surface
Dec 6, 2020Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending...
