NASA Administrator Bill Nelson revealed Monday that the Biden administration’s budget request for NASA in 2023 is $26 billion, the biggest request for science in the space agency’s history. According to Nelson, the sum is 8% more than the established federal expenditure levels, or the appropriation bill for fiscal year 2022. “Greater than a number,…
A lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, nearly 50 years after it was obtained. It’s one of the remaining samples from the final Apollo mission to land humans on the moon that hasn’t been opened. “We have had an opportunity to open up…
If Congress’s new spending plan is passed, some significant NASA programmes that have been underfunded in recent years may finally receive full funding. NASA’s mission to create a new human lunar lander, as well as a programme to develop new commercial space stations in low Earth orbit, would be fully financed, as requested in the…
NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission could be delayed until the summer. Artemis 1, which would fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon using a massive Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, will no longer launch in April, according to agency officials (Feb. 24). May could also be tough to predict. During a virtual news conference…
Next week, a massive asteroid will fly safely by our planet. According to a statement from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) will make its closest approach to our planet on Jan. 18 at 4:51 p.m. EST (2151 GMT). The 3,400-foot…
NASA engineers are spending the day researching the giant James Webb Space Telescope’s power subsystem to ensure the telescope is ready to perform a critical procedure: tensioning its vast sunshield. The Webb space telescope, which launched on Dec. 25, is currently undergoing a month-long deployment operation to ready it for data collection. However, the majority…
NASA has been exploring whether crashing a satellite into an asteroid may change its course since 2017, seeking SpaceX’s assistance in the process in 2019. The rocket business said today that it has completed a static fire test and that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test will launch on November 21st (DART). At 10:21pm PT that…
Putting boots on the moon is a costly endeavour. According to a new audit by the NASA Office of Inspector General, NASA’s Artemis programme, which intends to create a sustainable human presence on and around the moon by the end of the decade, will cost $93 billion by 2025. (OIG). “Moreover, while NASA has several initiatives…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released a dazzling “selfie” taken by the Curiosity Mars wanderer on Tuesday. In a tweet, the Curiosity group clarified the picture was captured close to the great rock formation named “Mont Mercou” after a mountain in France’s southern region. “Wish you were here! This selfie was taken in front of…
NASA’s Perseverance meanderer has recorded and sent back the first audio from the surface of Mars. The audio clips were released on Monday alongside new video footage from the wanderer as it landed Thursday. The audio was caught by two microphones mounted onto Perseverance. In one of the clips, a noise that seems as though…