Landing

Here’s what you need to know:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTpWYWIfP7YRichard Branson finally got his trip to space on Sunday.It has been a very long wait for Mr. Branson, the irreverent, 70-year-old British billionaire who leads a galaxy…

The United States now has company on Mars.A Chinese spaceship descended through the thin Martian atmosphere and landed safely on a large plain on Saturday morning, state media reported, and achieved an achievement only two other nations had…

A prototype of a spacecraft that SpaceX plans to send to the moon one day, and Mars landed in one piece on a landing pad in southern Texas on Wednesday. It was the fifth high-altitude flight test by Starship, a vehicle that exploded in…

Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in 60 miles above the moon orbit while crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died Wednesday at a hospice facility in…

What is it like to land on Mars?Now you can watch as if you were there in captivating, high definition clarity.On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency's spacecraft Perseverance as it fell through the Martian atmosphere…

An image from the video captured by multiple cameras when NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021.NASA / JPL-CaltechNASA on Monday released a unique video of a spacecraft landing on another planet when multiple cameras…

The newest Martian, a robot named Perseverance, is alive and well after his first day and night on the red planet, NASA scientists and engineers said Friday. Members of the triumphant team that manages the spaceship were delighted as they…

NASA's newest robotic researcher will reach Mars on Thursday afternoon, the third spacecraft to arrive on the planet this month after visitors from the United Arab Emirates and China. The Perseverance rover goes to Jezero Crater, a place…

Wesley Wheeler, President of Global Healthcare at United Parcel Service (UPS), holds up a sample of the vial used to ship the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, as presented during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Science and Transportation…

A test of a prototype rocket that Elon Musk dreams of sending people to Mars flew several miles high on Wednesday. But trying to land, it landed too quickly on the ground and exploded.This was the most recent, partially successful, test in…