Nov 11, 2013
The Olympic torch that will be used to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, has completed a sojourn in space and this morning landed back on Earth. The torch arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and was...
Aug 30, 2013
When NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) begins operation aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission managed by NASA’s Ames Research Centre, it will attempt to show two-way laser communication beyond Earth is possible,...
Aug 27, 2013
An image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the “Glenelg” area where the rover worked for the first half of 2013. The orbiter’s High...
Aug 5, 2013
More than 78 000 people have applied to join a one-way trip to Mars to establish a colony on the Red Planet by 2023 – and organisers expect 500 000 to have applied by the closing date of 31 August 2013. The Mars One astronaut selection programme has received...
Jan 7, 2013
NASA’s Mars rover has moved to within arm’s reach of a sinuous rock feature called “Snake River”, a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand. Curiosity’s science team plans to get a closer look at...
