Team Incredibots Claims Grand Prize Adventure with PISCES

Team Incredibots Claims Grand Prize Adventure with PISCES

Team Incredibots pose with proud parents, mini robotic rovers, and a mock lunar lander at a PISCES planetary analogue test site near Hale Pohaku on Mauna Kea. The Incredibots, a team of Ohio youngsters who won the 2014 GLXP (Google Lunar X PRIZE) MoonBots Lego...
Spacecraft History – The First Robotic Lunar Rover

Spacecraft History – The First Robotic Lunar Rover

The ‘Lunokhod 1’ robotic lunar rover circa 1970.  Photo Credit: Lavochkin Today, robotic planetary rovers are becoming increasingly common.  But 50 years ago, such a thing was nearly unheard of.  That changed on Nov. 15, 1970, when the Soviet Union landed...
First 3D Printer In Space Installed Aboard ISS

First 3D Printer In Space Installed Aboard ISS

The ‘Made In Space’ 3D printer, installed this morning (Nov. 17) aboard the ISS microgravity lab.  Credit: NASA Building objects like spare parts, tools, and even food may no longer be a science fiction dream.  The first-ever 3D printer in space was...
ESA Spacecraft Makes Historic Comet Landing

ESA Spacecraft Makes Historic Comet Landing

Artist rendering of the Philae lander making a historic landing today (Nov. 12, 2014) on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA. Today the ESA successfully made space exploration history by landing a spacecraft on a comet’s surface.  The suspense-ridden,...