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SpaceX and NASA had a successful launch yesterday and today they are docking to the International Space Station. NASA is paying SpaceX $3.1 billion for Crew Dragon development and to launch six operational missions. Boeing will be paid $4.8 billion …
The SpaceX – NASA Crew 1 flight is scheduled to fly this weekend with four astronauts to the International Space Station. There are nine Crew Dragon flights contracted to carry crew. Seven are contracted by NASA (one crewed test flight …
SpaceXs Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Centers Launch Complex 39A on Thursday, Nov. 5. NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) …
A new study finds 40,000 square kilometers of the lunar surface has the capacity to hold water, which is about double previous estimates. 0.15% of the lunar surface is permanently shadowed, with ~10% of this area distributed in patches smaller …
NASAs Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This means water could all over the moon and not just in permanently shadowed craters mostly near the north …
NASA provided $370 million in funding for space technologies that are at a tipping point. SpaceX received $53 million for orbital refueling. NASA believes space technology is at a tipping point if: An investment in a ground demonstration or …
ICON has received funding from NASA and launched “PROJECT OLYMPUS” to reach for the stars with an off-world construction system for the Moon. World-renowned architecture firms BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and SEArch+ have signed on as architectural partners for the audacious …
NASA researchers have detected nuclear fusion in metal loaded with deuterium. A metal such as erbium is loaded with deuterium atoms (aka deuterons) packing the fuel a billion times denser than in magnetic confinement (tokamak) fusion reactors. In the new …
The Universe expanded at a far faster rate than the speed of light for a tiny part of the first second of the life of the universe. Geoffrey Landis, NASA Engineer, who has had a great track record with solar …
Fermilab was able to produce 2 nanograms of antimatter per year, but a new NASA NIAC plan by Gerald Jackson could increase this by 10 billion times to 20 grams per year with a $670 million per year energy cost …