On March 4, 1979, the Voyager 1 spacecraft made a flyby of Io, capturing stunning images of this moon of Jupiter. The detailed images of Io represented the first time that active volcanoes had been seen on the surface of another world. The images of Io helped scientists determine that Io is the most volcanic …
The next Starship megarocket to fly is stuck on Earth for a little while longer. SpaceX aimed to launch the eighth test flight of Starship the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built from its Starbase site in South Texas on Monday evening (March 3). That didn’t happen, however. The company encountered issues with both …
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On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and Rusty Schweickart orbited Earth for 10 days. They tested the lunar module’s engines and navigation systems. They also practiced docking and …
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SpaceX launched a batch of 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Sunday night (March 2). The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:24 p.m. ET (0224 GMT on March 3), carrying the Starlink 12-20 mission — which included 13 satellites with direct-to-cell capability …
On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet.Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and spent the next decade …
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As a private lunar lander closed in on the moon early Sunday morning (March 2), poised to make history with the first fully successful landing, NASA’s acting chief Janet Petro was excited. And why not? NASA and its commercial partner Firefly Aerospace were just 24 minutes away from what became the successful landing of the …
Russia celebrated a late cosmonaut’s upcoming 100th birthday on Thursday (Feb. 27), by lighting a huge “candle” and delivering “gifts” to his modern-day colleagues living in orbit. The launch shroud encasing the uncrewed Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91, as NASA refers to it) resupply spacecraft was decorated with a logo commemorating the centennial of Pavel …
The northern lights are a truly remarkable spectacle, with curtains of light dancing across the sky, twisting and turning to the whims of Earth’s magnetic field. Nothing quite beats seeing the dazzling performance with your own eyes. Unfortunately for most of us, we simply don’t live far enough north for the aurora borealis or south …
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On Feb. 27, 1942, a British physicist named James Stanley Hey accidentally found out that the sun emits radio waves. Hey was working for the Army Operational Research Group in the middle of World War II. His job was to find ways to stop the Germans from jamming British radars. Hey received reports that anti-aircraft …
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SpaceX has pushed the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket back a few days. Elon Musk‘s company had been targeting Friday (Feb. 28) for Flight 8 of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. But that’s no longer the plan. “Now targeting to launch Starship’s eighth flight test as soon as Monday, …
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