Tag: nasa

  • James Webb Space Telescope Launching Today

    James Webb Space Telescope Launching Today

    The James Webb Space Telescope is finally launching today, at 7:20 AM Eastern Standard Time or 12:20 UTC. 30 years in the making, NASA has a video feed that starts very soon of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 rocket that will carry the new telescope to space where it’ll take a good trip to…

  • Watch the Perseverance Rover’s Landing Process From Its Perspective & Hear the Surface of Mars

    NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has several cameras that record high resolution footage to give us these never before seen views of our neighbor Mars and the landing process it takes to get there. NASA and JPL also released this amazing audio giving us an opportunity to hear what standing on Mars sounds like with the…

  • NASA/JPL’s Perseverance Rover Safely Landed on Mars Today

    NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory put out a statement after the successful landing: The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

  • Perseverance Lands on Mars Today

    Ars has a guide to what’s going on with the new exploring metal guy today, the automated navigation system that will guide the rover to a safe landing, and a little bit about the first-of-it’s kind drone that will launch from Perseverance. You can tune in to watch the status of the mission via NASA…

  • 49 Years Since The First, 46 Years Since The Last

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96EPhqT-ds On July 20th, 1969, humans first stepped onto the Moon with Apollo 11’s mission. That was 49 years ago and it’s been 46 years since Apollo 17’s final landing. We haven’t been back since. Today, the US space program is in shambles. Much of it has been given over to private entrepreneurs. It’s a…