In the nation’s capital, the fastest residential Internet connection money can buy tops out at 75 Mbps. That’s pretty zippy. But it doesn’t compare to the 622 Mbps monster pipe that NASA just successfully tested over a distance of 239,000…
Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft ends its mission today with a blazing reentry over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, carrying more than a ton of trash from the International Space Station. Astronauts aboard the space station loaded the unmanned…
Despite the two-week old government shutdown and NASA’s official online presence going completely dark, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have still been tweeting away and sharing some pretty spectacular snapshots. During the shutdown, NASA has kept Mission Control…
The three firms competing to become NASA’s post-shuttle provider of astronaut transportation services under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program reported different impacts from an ongoing partial government shutdown that has furloughed NASA civil servants authorized to pay these companies for…
In short: he’s in trouble. In the film Gravity, which opens this month, two astronauts are on a spacewalk when an accident hurtles them into the void. So what would actually happen if you went, in NASA’s terminology, “overboard”? NASA…
An unmanned cargo ship successfully berthed with the orbiting International Space Station on Sunday following a one-week delay due to a technical glitch, NASA said. ISS astronauts “successfully captured the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft with the station’s robotic arm”…
The space-travel industry is more competitive than ever — and just as in all industries, there will be winners and losers You could be forgiven for thinking that everyone but you is going into space. You could also be forgiven…
WASHINGTON — In an attempt to forestall congressional direction of the process, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation has produced a 50-page list of safety practices that could serve as the cornerstone for future commercial…
A slight glitch means docking is on hold until after new crew arrives on Soyuz. After an apparently flawless launch last week, Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus capsule was supposed to have docked on the International Space Station over the weekend. It…
Have you ever looked up on a clear night sky and wonder where the ISS might be? If so, there’s a website for that. NASA has made it easier for observers to sign up for email alerts or text messages…