I'm obsessed with JWST's series of photos of spiral galaxies. These are helping scientists understand more about these galaxies' origins, evolution, and structure.
Yesterday, India became the first country to successfully land a spacecraft at the moon’s south pole. Here’s more on the Chandrayaan-3 mission and why everyone is obsessed with the lunar south pole.
Starliner is currently having issues with two of its four RCS thrusters. It’s holding 200 m from the ISS while they troubleshoot.
If they aren’t able to dock with the ISS (it’s possible this is connected to the helium leak, which had gotten worse), the update video for this is just going to be me screaming on camera.
@skrishna I suppose there's no chance that if the motors they need for de-orbiting Starliner have run out of pressurization gas then maybe SpaceX could send up a spare Starship to give them a ride home? 🤪
If you’ve been looking at everything NASA is doing and wondering “ok but when are we ACTUALLY going back to the moon, and what’s the plan here?” this video is for you.
Here’s a rough timeline of the Artemis program, along with context:
Boeing Starliner is scheduled to launch its first crewed test today, May 6, at 10:34 PM ET. I'll be live posting over here about it throughout the day and up to launch!
Tackling a question today a bunch of people have been asking me over the past week: We landed on the moon 50 years ago. Why are we struggling so much now??
The answer is more complicated than you might think.