NASA pushes Crew-9 launch to September amid uncertainty of Starliner’s return timeline
07 Aug
Science & Technology

NASA pushes Crew-9 launch to September amid uncertainty of Starliner’s return timeline

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NASA Space Technology The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station poses during training at SpaceX’s Hawthorne facility. Image: SpaceXNASA is delaying the launch of the next space station crew as it continues to work through thruster issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. In a blog post, the agency said the launch of the Crew-9 mission, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, is now targeted for no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24.“This adjustment allows more time for mission managers to finalize return planning for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test currently docked to the orbiting laboratory,” NASA wrote. “Starliner ground teams are taking their time to analyze the results of recent docked hot-fire testing, finalize flight rationale for the spacecraft’s integrated propulsion system, and confirm system reliability ahead of Starliner’s return to Earth.”The...
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Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston
07 Aug
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Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut crew named, begins training in Houston

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NASA Space Technology The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the space-facing port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Dragon Freedom carried four Axiom Mission-2 astronauts to the orbital lab on May 22, 2023, including Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. Image: NASAThe full crew of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station was announced on Monday as they officially began training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.The mission, dubbed Ax-4, will include a pilot from India and mission specialists from Poland and Hungary. Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will once again sit in the commander seat, leading her second mission as part of Axiom Space’s astronaut corps.“I look forward to commanding my second commercial human spaceflight mission with...
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Massive Solar Storm Removed Earth’s ‘Tail’ and Gave It Wings Instead
07 Aug
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Massive Solar Storm Removed Earth’s ‘Tail’ and Gave It Wings Instead

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NASA Space Technology An overwhelming solar burst from the Sun hit the Earth hard enough to change its entire magnetic field, researchers have found.Astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center detected an explosion originating from April 2023 that disturbed its natural magnetosphere for two hours.Similar to a supersonic jet being pelted by intense high-speed winds, Earth is perpetually bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as solar wind.A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains. NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) observed the Earth to better understand how solar winds reshaped its electromagnetic field...Getty Images Usually, the Earth moves throughout the solar system with a magnetic field shaped like a tail at its nightside during interactions with solar wind. Experts often compare...
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Tech Today:Flipping NASA Techand StickingtheLanding
07 Aug
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Tech Today:Flipping NASA Techand StickingtheLanding

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NASA Space Technology NASA tech adds gecko grip to phone accessory When it comes to innovative technologies, inventors often find inspiration in the most unexpected places. A former salesman, Akeem Shannon, was inspired by his uncle, who worked as an engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to research the agency’s published technologies. He came across a sticky NASA invention that would help him launch his breakout product.In the early 2010s, a team of roboticists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were exploring methods to enhance robots’ gripping capabilities. They came across the Van Der Waals force – a weak electrostatic bond that forms at the molecular level when points on two surfaces make contact. This is the same force that geckos use to climb along walls.The microscopic hairs...
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