Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?
For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths. So it ...
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NASA's Orion crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis 1 − an aerospace expert weighs in (op-ed)
This maneuver was carefully designed to gradually decrease Orion's velocity and reduce the heat stress on the inner layers of the shield. After the first dive, Orion bounced back into space in a ...
How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle
These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive ...
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Animation Of NASA's ESCAPADE Launched To Mars Atop Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket
A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...
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Time-Lapse Of Space Shuttle Endeavour Stacked
Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the ...
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Save 20% on the Lego Space Astronaut, one of our favorite space sets of 2024
which can also be turned into a dog or a space shuttle. One of our favorite Lego sets of last year is currently on sale thanks to Amazon. The Lego Creator 3-in-1 Space Astronaut set, which can be ...
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...
A Cold War mystery: Why did Jimmy Carter save the space shuttle?
Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Why must a Space Shuttle make a backflip when engaging with the International Space Station?
From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip, called the R-bar Pitch Manoeuvre or Rendezvous Pitch Manoeuvre (RPM), to allow the crew aboard the International Space ...
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On this date: Nixon directs NASA to build space shuttle program
On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle program. “I have decided today that the United States should proceed at ...