March 27, 2019 NASA Space Challenger widow’s home goes up in flames in Texas: report Cheryl McNair, the widow of NASA Space Challenger astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair, was rescued, along with her cat and some space memorabilia, from a fire at in her home in El Lago, TX early Wednesday morning.
March 24, 2019 'Wonder, awe, excitement': Apollo 16 astronaut describes walking on the Moon Charles Duke watched from Mission Control in Houston when his fellow Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic Moon landing on July 20, 1969. Less than three years later he followed in their footsteps as the Apollo 16 lunar module pilot.
March 23, 2019 'It was very close to an abort': How the nerve-wracking final seconds of the Apollo 11 Moon landing unfolded When the Apollo 11 lunar module descended to the Moon on July 20, 1969, NASA astronaut Charles Duke was tensely monitoring the spacecraft’s nail-biting progress from Mission Control in Houston.
March 19, 2019 Trump, Bolsonaro prepared to sign agreement for US space launches from Brazil During their first sit-down, President Trump and Brazil’s new far-right leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, arranged to sign several bilateral agreements, including one that lets the United States use Brazil’s Alcantara Aerospace Launch Base for satellites.
March 19, 2019 F1's Lewis Hamilton questions astronauts about moon landing hoax conspiracy: report Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton repeated a long-held conspiracy theory during a visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston last week.
March 19, 2019 Aliens might shoot lasers at black holes to travel the galaxy An astronomer at Columbia University has a new guess about how hypothetical alien civilizations might be invisibly navigating our galaxy: Firing lasers at binary black holes (twin black holes that orbit each other).
March 8, 2019 Splashdown! SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule returns to Earth SpaceX’s unmanned Crew Dragon capsule has splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after its historic DEMO-1 test flight to the International Space Station.
March 5, 2019 NASA’s Hubble space telescope suffers camera glitch NASA’s Hubble space telescope has suffered a camera glitch after software was incorrectly loaded onto one of its key instruments.
March 5, 2019 Israeli spacecraft snaps stunning selfie on its way to the Moon Israel’s unmanned Beresheet spacecraft has captured a stunning selfie on its historic journey to the Moon.
March 1, 2019 SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule set for historic test flight SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will make its debut when it launches atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center early on Saturday.