by Tira Shubart | 31 Jan 2024 | Decoder Replay, Space
The little space copter that could finally puttered out. But our hopes for stepping on Martian soil? That keeps chugging along. An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)...
by Tira Shubart | 25 Dec 2023 | Space
On Christmas Eve 55 years ago an astronaut snapped a photo that caught the world’s attention. The global selfie made us rethink our place in the universe. On 24 December 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans...
by Tira Shubart | 9 Oct 2023 | Science, Space, World
For 50 years the folks who travel into space have cooperated above the borders that divide those on land. But as we find space not so empty will lines be drawn? Astronaut Donald K. Slayton and cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov are seen together in the Soyuz Orbital Module...
by Tira Shubart | 17 May 2023 | Space
The sun might be 93 million miles away, but its flares cause blackouts and GPS to break down here on earth. Get ready. We are approaching the solar maximum. Passengers on the MS Trollfjord watch as an aurora covers the sky along the Norwegian coast on 19 October 2019....