by Jim Heath | Mar 3, 2021 | Headlines, Space
SpaceX’s Starship Serial Number 10 (SN10) exploded roughly 10 minutes after landing on the launch pad following its first high altitude flight test that sent the massive rocket soaring six miles into the air. The failure occurred after SpaceX declared it a...
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 | Nov 19, 2020 | Headlines, Science, Space
Astronomers are advocating the construction of an “Ultimately Large Telescope” on the moon to further research about the Big Bang. The ideas is to set up a telescope that would allow scientists to view and analyze the oldest stars in the universe,...
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 | Jul 20, 2020 | History, Space
Fifty one years ago, human beings landed and stepped on the moon for the first time. Some 650 million people around the world watched the historic landing on July 20, 1969, and heard astronaut Neil Armstrong say: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap...
