Feb 26 Private U.S. lunar lander to cease operations Tuesday after landing sideways By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday that sunlight will likely stop shining on the solar panels Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Feb 23 WATCH: NASA and Intuitive Machines say lunar lander is on its side, hampering communications By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A private U.S. lunar lander tilted over at touchdown and ended up on its side near the moon’s south pole, hampering communications, company officials said Friday. Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch 5:29 U.S. company lands private spacecraft on surface of the moon By Geoff Bennett, Miles O'Brien, Shoshana Dubnow It's the first U.S.-built spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years, and the first ever by a private company. The Odysseus lander took off from Cape Canaveral last week and made it to the lunar surface… Continue watching
Feb 22 Private lander touches down on the moon but is sending a weak signal By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The lander’s choreographed descent was the first for the U.S. since 1972, when Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the last bootprints in the desolate gray dust. Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch 10:00 ‘The Space Race’ documentary explores Black astronauts’ efforts to overcome injustice By Geoff Bennett, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet A new documentary explores the little-known stories of the first Black pilots and engineers who were pioneers of NASA's space program. Geoff Bennett has this look at the film, “The Space Race,” which airs on the National Geographic Channel and… Continue watching
Feb 01 Skyscraper-size asteroid to pass within 2 million miles of Earth poses no threat By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press It won't be back our way again until 2032, but it will be a much more distant encounter, staying 45 million miles away. Continue reading
Jan 31 WATCH: NASA celebrates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s legacy after final flight By News Desk and Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The space agency announced last week that the 4-pound chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage, and its mission is officially over. Continue reading
Jan 19 ‘We’re frankly astonished.’ Why 2023’s record-breaking heat surprised scientists By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Last year also featured the most annual billion-dollar disasters on record in the United States. Continue reading
Jan 09 First human moon landing in over 50 years delayed to 2026 By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The news came barely an hour after a U.S. company abandoned its own attempt to land on the moon because of a fuel leak. Continue reading
Jan 06 6 space missions to look forward to in 2024 By Ali M. Bramson, The Conversation From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024… Continue reading