Moon goes blood red this weekend: ‘Eclipse for the Americas’ – The Associated Press – en Español May’s full moon will glow with a striking color during this year’s first total lunar eclipse on Sunday. It will be visible in North and South America this weekend, with the moon bathed in reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises. NASA’s Noah Petro, a planetary geologist who specializes in the moon, said the eclipse …
(ConservativeStar.com) – In 1998, Russia and the United States joined forces to begin assembling the International Space Station (ISS) laboratory for various studies, including microgravity. The station’s mission was threefold, with about 10 years in between each phase, the third ending in 2030 when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will crash the ISS into the Pacific Ocean. During the most productive decade in the life of the space station, scientists will concentrate on …
(ConservativeStar.com) – Orville and Wilbur Wright began a process with their 12-second flight over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that led to travel around the world in hours instead of days. This process eventually led to humankind in space. Recently, a piece of that first airplane rode on the Ingenuity Mars helicopter as it hovered approximately 10 feet above the surface of the red planet. "Ingenuity has performed its first flight — the first flight of …
(ConservativeStar.com) – The Apollo program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was one that launched men to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The 17th and final mission, in December 1972, was commanded by Eugene (Gene) Cernan, who was the last person to walk on the lunar surface — but he may not hold that distinction for too much longer. NASA has just made an agreement with the Japan Aerospace …