Photo Credit: NASA How do you get to Mars? You build a rocket, and go. OK, it’s actually a bit more complex than that. A lot more complex, really. But that’s still a vitally important step. We’ll come back to why in a minute. First, let’s talk about that “complex”...
According to a story on Leonard David’s blog, Chinese space officials recently released new images of the Moon that are focused on the landing site of the country’s future Chang’e 5 lunar lander. Target date for China’s ambitious robotic Moon probe mission...
Multiple partner nations involved on the International Space Station are developing robots in space. Photo Credit: Jacques van Oene / SpaceFlight Insider On Monday, Sept. 7, Danish European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, for the first time, performed...
An illustration of the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) laser beaming data to Earth. Photo Credit: NASA NASA spacecraft may soon be able to beam their data home to Earth blazingly fast — with lasers! In space, a slow data connection means more than just...
Some of the moon soil collected by Apollo astronauts has deteriorated significantly during its four-plus decades on Earth, a new study reports. Scientists found that the median particle size in a set of 20 different Apollo soil samples held in laboratories for...
