Nasa
-
News
Mary Cleave, Who Glimpsed a Blighted Earth From Space, Dies at 76
After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research…
-
Real Estate
Space Station to Earth: Houston, We Have Found the Tomato
The NASA astronaut Frank Rubio grew a tomato in space, but then it disappeared. Suspicion trailed Mr. Rubio for months,…
-
Real Estate
How NASA Learned to Love 4 Squirmy Letters
Richard Danne, left, shakes hands with NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana. Credit...Keegan Barber/NASALast month, NASA welcomed Richard Danne to its…
-
Real Estate
Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17…
-
Real Estate
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
First detected just days ago, 2023 BU will approach within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
-
Real Estate
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
BALTIMORE — So far it’s been eye candy from heaven: The black vastness of space teeming with enigmatic, unfathomably distant…
-
Real Estate
NASA Concludes InSight, Mars Mission That Listened for Quakes
After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because…
-
US
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia
For half a decade now, influential young scientists have denounced NASA’s decision to name its deep-space telescope after James E.…
-
Real Estate
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for the International Space Station,…