In a death-defying maneuver for the spacecraft, NASA’s Juno has completed an unprecedented and unplanned engine burn. The purpose? To save the spacecraft’s “life,” or at least the rest of its mission to Jupiter.
You’ll hear blistering gusts of wind, robotic arm movements, and seismic Martian activity.
You’d think spotting a crashed lander on the surface of the Moon would be easier, but NASA is discovering that the hunt can be trickier than you might expect. Searches for India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, have turned up empty-handed so far, with the failed mission so far escaping the high-resolution eye of NASA’s lunar satellites.
NASA announced its returned mission to the moon by 2024, titled Artemis it will cost an estimated $20-$30 billion.
NASA has released a stunning new high-resolution visualization of a black hole, specifically how its gravity distorts the way it looks.
NASA faces an uphill battle to sell its lunar initiative to Congress, and agency administrator Jim Bridenstine is lobbying hard for funding for the Artemis program, reports The Washington Post.
NASA has just signed off on the production of six Orion spacecraft.
But nobody said it was supposed to be easy.
The time has come. We’re going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid.
This will be NASA’s first moon landing since Apollo 11.
