Eleven-time American national champion Christina Birch is swapping the cycling velodrome to start a journey she hopes will take her all the way to the moon. Birch’s drastic change of direction comes after being selected for the NASA Astronaut Class of 2021, which will see her embark on a two-year training course for the Artemis…
NASA’s 10 New Astronauts: Pilots, Doctor, Physicist, Cyclist
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA selected 10 new astronauts Monday, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead to the moon and Mars. The space agency introduced the six men and four women during a ceremony in Houston, home to Mission Control and the astronaut corps. More than 12,000 applied for the coveted spots. The 10…
Work and Play in Space? NASA Awards $415.6 Million for New Space Hubs
SEATTLE—NASA announced on Thursday it has awarded $415.6 million to billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately-owned and operated commercial space stations. The trio of awards are emblematic of the U.S. space agency’s efforts to tap private companies to enable an American-led commercial economy in low-Earth…
Spacewalking Astronauts Replace Antenna After Debris Scare
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts replaced a broken antenna outside the International Space Station on Thursday after getting NASA’s all-clear for orbiting debris. U.S. astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron were supposed to complete the job Tuesday, but NASA delayed the spacewalk because of potentially threatening space junk. NASA later determined the astronauts were safe to…
Citing Debris Risk, NASA Delays Spacewalk to Fix Space Station Antenna
A spacewalk planned for Tuesday to repair a faulty antenna on the International Space Station was postponed indefinitely, NASA said, citing a “debris notification” it received for the orbiting research laboratory. Two U.S. astronauts had been scheduled to venture outside the space station at 7:10 a.m. ET to begin their work, facing what NASA officials…
NASA Launches Spacecraft to Test Asteroid Defense Concept
This week, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon…
New Russian Module Launched to International Space Station
MOSCOW—A Russian rocket blasted off successfully on Wednesday to deliver a new docking module to the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 6:06 p.m. (1306 GMT) from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the Progress cargo ship with the Prichal (Pier) docking module attached to it. The craft…
NASA Launches Test Mission of Asteroid-Deflecting Spacecraft
LOS ANGELES—A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth. The DART spacecraft soared into the night sky at 10:21 p.m. PT on Tuesday from…
Launch of New NASA Space Telescope Delayed After Incident
BERLIN—The European Space Agency says the launch of a new NASA telescope to replace the famed Hubble observatory is being postponed to allow experts to check the device for possible damage following an incident at its spaceport in French Guiana. The ESA said in a statement late Monday that technicians had been preparing to attach…
SpaceX Set to Launch NASA Asteroid Defense Mission
November 22, 2021
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HAWTHORNE, Calif.—Southland residents could get an impressive pre-holiday aerial light show the night of Nov. 23 when Hawthorne-based SpaceX attempts to launch a NASA planetary-defense mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc along the California central coast. Depending on visibility, night-time rocket launches from Vandenberg can often create dazzling light spectacles that can be…
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