The POT successfully rehearsed this Wednesday the landing of a capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission, which will contain the samples collected in the asteroid Bennu and will for the first time provide the space program with USA material from such bodies. The OSIRIS-REx mission team made a test landing in the Utah desert in preparation […]
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Crew-7 astronauts are already inside the ISS and begin a 6-month mission
The astronauts of the Crew-7 mission of the POT and Spacex, which arrived this Sunday at the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft, are already inside the orbital laboratory and begin today “a six month mission”confirmed the US space agency. “Welcome aboard Crew7! Members of Crew-7 today joined the seven-member Exp 69 […]
Japan postpones takeoff of moon mission “Moon Sniper” for the third time
Japan’s space agency postponed the launch of its spacecraft for the third time on Monday. moon mission “Moon Sniper” (moon sniper) due to bad weather. The H2-A rocket, which was scheduled to take off from the southern island of Tangashima, was also carrying a research satellite developed together with NASA and the European Space Agency. […]
NASA warns that 2024 will be hotter than this year
scientists from the space agency USA (POT) They confirmed this Monday that July was the hottest month since global measurements have been taken and warned that 2024 will be an even warmer year than 2023. “What we are seeing here is anomalous and above the expected trend (…) We anticipate that 2023 will not only […]
The magic of working at NASA
From the preparation and management of launches to the manufacture of telescopes or the study of asteroids: at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the POT The real magic of space exploration milestones happens. Less than twenty kilometers from Washington is this enormous facility, the largest of the ten that NASA has in the country, […]
NASA on the heat wave: “It is no surprise and it will continue”
the space agency USA (POT) warned this Thursday that the heat wave that is being registered in different countries of the world “it’s no surprise” and that it will continue unless the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere ceases. “For the last four decades there has been an increase in temperatures every decade. This […]
Everything ready for takeoff of Axiom Space’s second private mission to the ISS
The private company Axiom Space and the POT are ready for the launch this Sunday of the manned mission Ax-2, which will take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), bound for the International Space Station (ISS) and aboard a Dragon capsule that will be propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket, both from the SpaceX company. […]
NASA chooses Blue Origin, by Jeff Bezos, to go to the Moon with Artemis mission
The POT has chosen the Blue Origin aerospace company, owned by magnate Jeff Bezos, to develop a landing system that allows astronauts to be taken to the Moon under the Artemis mission. It is the second contract that the US space agency awards to develop the technology that will allow humanity to set foot on […]
The astronauts who will go to the moon ask the US that there be no cuts for NASA
The astronauts who will make up the Artemis II mission and who will travel to the moon in the coming years asked this Thursday, at the foot of the Capitol American, that the Government does not reduce the budget allocated to the POT. In these critical weeks because Republicans and Democrats do not reach an […]
Radio signal from a taxi in Argentina interferes with a NASA transmission
A radio signal from a taxi Argentinain which a driver asks for directions, slipped into a transmission of the Pot which followed the activities of astronauts on the International Space Station. “1-5-0, did you say, from Irigoyen?”is heard in the middle of the live broadcast that NASA made days ago while two Russian astronauts walked […]