The BEAM. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace The final preparations are under way for Thursday morning’s expansion of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) from the Tranquility module. Back on Earth, a veteran cosmonaut and a pair of first time space flyers are getting...
The Red Planet. Credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) The Hubble Space Telescope took this photograph of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016. Watch the video...
Ham the Chimpanzee. Credit: NASA January 31 marked the 55th anniversary of when Ham the Chimpanzee went to space on the Mercury Redstone-2 launch. According to an article in Space.com, Jan. 31 also marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet moon lander...
Photograph of the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force Story by Stephen Clark from Spaceflight Now U.S. military authorities have granted approval for liftoff Tuesday of a simplified satellite launcher from Hawaii on a test...
