US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a 41-year-old billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Shift4 Payments, as the next head of NASA. Isaacman, a pioneer in commercial spaceflight and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, has played a key role in shaping the future of space exploration through his collaboration with SpaceX. … Read more
Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA ruled the trip back too risky. After years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission — a final shakedown before … Read more
Former U.S. astronaut William Anders, known for the iconic “Earthrise” photo, dies at 90 in a plane crash off Washington state. Anders was piloting the small plane alone when it crashed on June 7; his body was recovered by a dive team. Anders was a key member of the Apollo 8 mission, one of the … Read more
The European Space Agency aptly referred to it as “an awesome Christmas present” EKO HOT BLOG reports that James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier space observatory of the next decade, successfully launched on Christmas morning. The telescope lifted off atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 7:20 a.m. ET. “We … Read more
NASA Condemns China’s Handling Of Rocket Re-entry after debris from its out-of-control rocket likely plunged into the Indian Ocean Saturday night. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has condemned China for its failure to meet responsible standards after debris from its out-of-control rocket likely plunged into the Indian Ocean Saturday night. NASA Administrator Sen. … Read more
The rover is only the fifth ever to set its wheels down on Mars The feat was first accomplished in 1997 and all so far have been American NASA said Thursday that the Perseverance rover has touched down on the surface of Mars after successfully overcoming a risky landing phase known as the “seven minutes … Read more
Planetary historically, the fields of solar and space physics were founded on ground-based observation of the Sun and the near-Earth space environment. Great advances occurred during and after the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958, when globally coordinated, ground-based observations and measurements made by balloons, sounding rockets, and orbiting spacecraft became available. Although the ingenuity of the … Read more
NOVEMBER 23, 2020 The United States’ National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has inducted into its Inventors Hall of Fame a Nigerian-American scientist, Robert Olusola Okojie. Okojie has been working with NASA for 20 years and has 21 patented inventions to his credit. According to NASA, the scientist joined the silicon carbide research group at agency’s … Read more
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era of commercial space travel. It also put NASA back in the business of launching astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011. NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode skyward … Read more