by Jim Heath | Feb 18, 2021 | Headlines, NASA, Space
NASA landed a new robotic rover on Mars today, its most ambitious effort in decades to directly study whether there was ever life on the red planet. While the agency has landed other missions on Mars, the $2.7 billion robotic explorer named Perseverance carries a...
by Jim Heath | Oct 26, 2020 | Headlines, NASA, Space
Scientists have gathered some of the most compelling evidence yet for the existence of water on the moon – and it may be relatively accessible. The discovery has implications for future missions to the moon and deeper space exploration. With no significant atmosphere...
by Jim Heath | Aug 26, 2020 | Entertainment, Headlines, NASA, Science, Space
TV’s most outspoken (and greatest) space explorer has a question for the minds behind the U.S. military’s newest branch: “What the heck is wrong with you, Space Force?” In a Military Times op-ed published today, actor William Shatner railed...
by Jim Heath | Aug 2, 2020 | Headlines, NASA
Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on today in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years,...
by Jim Heath | May 30, 2020 | Headlines, NASA
The United States opened a new era of human space travel on Saturday as a private company for the first time launched astronauts into orbit, nearly a decade after the government retired the storied space shuttle program in the aftermath of national tragedy. Two...
by Jim Heath | Jan 1, 2019 | Headlines, NASA
A Trump administration official’s plan to host a sanctioned Russian nationalist in the U.S. in the coming months is raising alarms across Washington. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, a former three-term Republican congressman from Oklahoma, extended an October...
