A solar-powered spacecraft is spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system. NASA's Juno spacecraft will fire its main rocket engine late Monday to slow ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-05
... ted film. NASA officials have praised the film, and said that in general, the film has portrayed the difficulties and challenges of a Mars mission, and has actually catalyzed public interest in it. Sc ...More
EJ Insight2016-07-04
... cility on NASA's research center at the edge of Mountain View, where Google's headquarters are located. Since last year Page has also been funding another start-up, Kitty Hawk, which is working on a s ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-10
... acts with NASA to fly both cargo and crew. The cargo version of Dragon is presently at the International Space Station and is due to splash down in the Pacific Ocean next month. SpaceX is also working ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
... elines as NASA scientists are currently forbidden from working with the Chinese space program thanks to a 2011 bill passed by US Congress, citing security concerns. Be that as it may, China still hope ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-26
China, Russia and the European Space Agency (ESA) each have plans to build a moon base — with permanent structures where humans can live and work. NASA, meanwhile, has long set its sights on Mars, but ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-29
... US agency NASA trouble as well. The United States currently has two operational rovers on Mars, Curiosity and Opportunity. The cost of the ExoMars mission to the European Space Agency, including the s ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-15
A Hong Kong amateur photographer has won recognition from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for capturing the image of a rare cloud formation in the sky. Alfred Lee's picture ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-04
The Washington Post ran an article in May last year on how a 99 US cent Amazon Kindle ebook may have saved NASA and the Mars space program. Incidentally, it became a New York Times bestseller and, as ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... stration (NASA), Falcon 9 v1.1 has already been SpaceX’s cash cow. The firm is also working towards the first launch of Falcon Heavy designed with a payload of up to 53,000 kg. Blue Origin, on the oth ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
... ract with NASA to send supplies to the International Space Station. -- Contact us at [email protected] RC ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
... ineers of NASA did not even have all the knowledge and details of how to achieve the mission. JFK could have said "I command" instead of the weaker "I believe." But that belief, instead of a command, ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists shows ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
... March 8, NASA’s Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft caught such a storm stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, a report published in this week’s issue of the journal Science says. The "interplanetary cor ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
Moshe Kai Cavalin, from San Gabriel, California, is what most people would call gifted. At 17, he's got two college degrees under his belt, flies airplanes and works for NASA. But Moshe thinks he's ju ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
Briny water flows during the summer months on Mars, raising the possibility that the planet, long thought to be arid, could support life today, scientists analyzing data from a NASA spacecraft said. A ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-29
... onth with NASA astronauts and other young people, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. "In this instance, it's clear that at least some of Ahmed's teachers failed him. That's too bad," he said. Moha ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-17
... xt to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. The vehicles will blast off from a refurbished launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just south of NASA's seaside spaceport, Reuters reports. “As a kid, ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
Sea levels worldwide rose an average of nearly 8 centimeters since 1992, the result of warming waters and melting ice, Reuters reported, citing a panel of NASA scientists. They are rising faster than ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
... th. Using NASA's Kelper space telescope, they spotted the planet, about 60 percent bigger than Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, inspiring gushes, naturally. "In my mind, this is the closest thing w ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-24
