Новости за 05.02.2016

An Atlas V rocket carrying the GPS IIF-12 satellite successfully took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:38 a.m. EST (1338 GMT) today (Feb. 5). The satellite is the 12th and final member of the IIF series.

The minute-long ad, which will air Sunday (Feb. 7) during Super Bowl 50, stars actor Liam Neeson as "The Man from the Future," who travels back in time to tell a younger version of himself about the coming revolution in viewing technology.

The congressionally-mandated Space Launch System, currently in development, is built upon legacy technology. This NASA video compares the giant of Apollo to the Shuttle-derived ‘new’ SLS.

Grasshopper was a reusable rocket prototype tested by the company SpaceX in preparation for more ambitious launches.

Elon Musk founded SpaceX with ambitions to explore Mars.

If the United States shifts priorities from landing on Mars to orbiting it, the mission can start with a single component ready to launch.

Edgar Dean Mitchell, who in February 1971 became the sixth man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 85. The lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, Mitchell died at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida, sources close to his family confirmed.

Planet watching in February will be a slow build — not much at first, but patient skywatchers can end the night with glimpses of five bright planets in the sky.

When the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos square off Sunday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be set to watch in real time.

Gravity measurements taken by the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft show the body of comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is about 75 percent dust and 25 percent ice all the way through.

Fifty-five years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to launch into space, a documentary about the Soviet space program seeks to reveal how Russia actually "won the space race."

Built in 1933, the historic Hangar One at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA was stripped of its wood in 2012. Today, those hallowed boards reside at Levi's Stadium (home of the 49ers) in Santa Clara, CA.