Move over, moon rocks: Space Center Houston has a new type of space stone in its showcase. The official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday (March 1) became only the second place in the world where the public can see a sample of the asteroid Bennu as collected and brought back to …
Rare OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample debuts at Space Center Houston. Read More »
A pioneering private space capsule captured spectacular footage of its fiery homecoming last month. Varda Space‘s first-ever mission, called W-1, wrapped up on Feb. 21 with the successful recovery of the California’s startup’s off-Earth manufacturing capsule. That conical, 3-foot-wide (0.9 meters) capsule touched down softly under parachute at the Utah Test and Training Range west …
Private space capsule’s blistering return to Earth. Read More »
Taking advantage of a weather delay for NASA’s next space station flight, SpaceX fired off another 23 Starlink internet satellites Thursday in a hazy leap day launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was the California rocket builder’s 19th flight so far this year. Earlier in the day, NASA called off plans for …
NASA Delays Space Station Crew Rotation Flight, Makes Way For SpaceX Starlink Launch. Read More »
