UCLA Grad Jessica Watkins To Be First Black Woman On NASA Space Station Crew
Watkins will be a member of the fourth crew launched to the station by Hawthorne-based Space-X under a commercial contract with NASA.
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Watkins will be a member of the fourth crew launched to the station by Hawthorne-based Space-X under a commercial contract with NASA.
SpaceX postponed the launch of four more NASA astronauts to the International Space Station due to inclement weather.
NASA's Perseverance Rover has recorded over five hours worth of audio from the surface of Mars, the first-ever spacecraft recorded audio from The Red Planet.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket is carrying the NASA Landsat 9 observatory into orbit.
The Perseverance was able to create 5 grams of oxygen, which would provide about 10 minutes of oxygen for an astronaut.
The first person of color will land on the moon under the Artemis program, NASA has announced.
After overcoming an earlier software glitch, NASA's $80 million Ingenuity helicopter spun up its carbon-composite rotors and lifted off the dusty surface of Mars early Monday to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet.
The 360-degree panorama was beamed back to Earth by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument. It was stitched together from 142 images and reveals the crater rim and cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance, according to NASA.
Ever wondered what it's like to land on Mars? Thanks to the NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover, people across the world can see for themselves.
The rover is also equipped with a mini helicopter that will become the first ever flown on another planet.
The mission, called Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, is targeted for launch in June 2024.
Southern California native and Ontario High School graduate Victor Glover has been working on the International Space Station for nearly a month an a half.
Saturn and Jupiter were so close to each other Monday night, astronomers and skywatchers say they shined like a double planet. The heavenly sight, referred to by some as a "Christmas star," is an extremely rare phenomenon that last happened in the Middle Ages.
Three Southland residents were chosen to be among the 18 astronauts of NASA's Artemis program, which is the space agency's effort to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024.
Vandenberg was initially selected as a finalist in 2019. However, after protests that the process was unfair, that first list was scrapped and a new one was made last month.
NASA engineers have begun assembling the massive rocket designed to take the first woman to the moon later this decade as part of the Artemis program.
Ventura County residents may hear several sonic booms when the Falcon 9 rocket returns to earth.
Victor Glover says the G-force of being launched into space aboard SpaceX's Dragon Capsule was like nothing he ever experienced before.
Southern California native Victor Glover Monday gave a virtual tour of the Space X Crew Dragon capsule during its history-making rendezvous with the International Space Station.
While no details were released, NASA said the finding "contributes to NASA's efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration."
Bennu is believed to be 4.5 billion years old and is considered to be a "near-earth object," or NEO, because its trajectory occasionally brings it within a few million miles of Earth's orbit.
NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, aboard the Aqua satellite, captured infrared images of carbon monoxide plumes coming from the 28 major wildfires burning across the state as of Monday.
The new planet, called AU Mic B, was discovered orbiting AU Microscopii, a star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Thunderstorms and bad weather forced SpaceX to postpone the first launch of NASA astronauts from Florida in nine years. The next launch window is Saturday.
SpaceX's first ever crewed mission – carrying three astronauts – is scheduled to launch to the ISS on May 27 from Florida. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011.
