“[In] everyone’s life, they have a pivotal moment when they ask the question, ‘What am I really doing? What am I here for?’ … I’m reminded of a credo that I came up [with] through the evolution of my engagement of a whole bunch of recreational pursuits [including being a marathoner, ultrarunner, and […]
In this image from Jan. 30, 2024, an uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, starting its journey to the International Space Station. Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Cygnus carries 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo to support doz
This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2024. At the time, the orbital lab was 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea. The Nauka science module a
影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA创造历史的机智号火星直升机在超出预期、比计划多进行了数十次飞行后，结束了在这颗红色星球上的任务。虽然这架直升机保持直立状态，并与地面控制人员保持着联系，但本周传回的1月18日的飞行图像显示，它的一个或多个旋翼叶片在着陆过程中受损，无法再飞行。 机智号最初的设计是作为一项技术演示，在30天内进行多达五次实验测试飞行，第一架在另一个世界上的飞机在火星表面运行了近三年，进行了72次飞行，飞行距离是计划的14倍多，总飞行时间超过2小时。 “在另一个星球上的第一架飞机，机智号的历史性旅程已经结束。”NASA局长比尔·纳尔逊说。“这架非凡的直升机飞得比我
NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, stand on the Martian landscape in this poster created to commemorate their 20th landing anniversary. The rovers landed in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet in locales that scientists suspected had been affected by liquid water in the past. Thei
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is the third all-private astronaut mission to the space station, sending crew members Commander Michael López-Alegr
美国邮政总局发行了两枚新的优先邮票，庆祝NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜，这是有史以来最大、最强大、最复杂的太空望远镜。1月22日发行的邮票展示了韦伯自2022年开始科学任务以来拍摄的宇宙图像。
