Over a decade ago, NASA picked Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, agreeing to pay billions of dollars for up to a half-dozen crewed flights. Some of those flights, it turns out, may not happen, and the next…
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget, which threaten US university-based space research programmes as well as joint space missions, have left international scientific…
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It’ll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years to do the same.
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