Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a pair of ground-based observatories in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston,...
A recent discovery found evidence of a giant planet located on the outside of our solar system, and with the help of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft we may be on the path to confirming the planet’s existence. According to a story in Space Flight Insider,...
Jack J. Fox, the Chief of Science and Technology Projects Division for NASA Kennedy Space Center, recently sent a letter to the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems. It reads as follows: During our 2015 field testing of the robotic Vertical...
This time 50 years ago, Soviet automatic lunar station Luna-9 landed on the moon. The spacecraft was the first to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Luna-9 landed west of the Reiner and Marius craters in the Ocean of Storms, opening a new stage in the...
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...
The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) recently published this video of the lunar landing pad, or Vertical Take-off/Vertical Landing Pad. The video, made by PISCES Project Manager Rodrigo Romo, captures the months-long process of our rover...
