Новости за 14.03.2016

For the first time, Jeff Bezos, billionaire and chief executive of Amazon, opened the door to his secretive rocket factory Blue Origin — here's an exclusive look inside.

RS-25 engine #2059 – last flown on the last flight of Endeavor – was fired for over 8 minutes at NASA's Stennis Space Center on March 10th, 2016.

What do you do if you’re stuck zooming above the Earth in a space station about the size of a football field for 340 days? You take a lot of pictures.

At the final hearing involving one of NASA’s biggest patrons March 10, Senators criticized the use of “gimmicks” to help fund NASA’s 2017 budget request.

A new, pre-NASA history of rocketry and spaceflight delves into the lesser-known roots of the organization — the different paths that brought the founding fathers of rocketry together to work on putting the first satellites and humans into space.

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli lander — the first phase of the two-part ExoMars life-hunting program — phoned home today on schedule at 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT), 12 hours after blasting off together from Kazakhstan.

We know them as the forefathers of rocketry and the giants of NASA, but before that, they were just experimenters, military engineers and enthusiasts — and they had no idea what they were doing.

The first phase of the European-led ExoMars life-hunting program blasted off today (March 14), as two robotic spacecraft soared skyward atop a Russian Proton-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:31 a.m. EDT (0931 GMT).

If you were the most interesting man in the world and you've already done everything, what's left to do?

The latest Red Planet probe is en route after a 5:31am EST launch on March 14th, 2016 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahstan.

A Proton-M rocket launched the ExoMars 2016 mission from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on March 14, 2016. The mission hardware includes an orbiter along with a Mars lander prototype that will attempt a landing on the red planet.

Publisher Brian Ventrudo delivers "easy-to-understand descriptions" of astrophotographer Terry Hancock stunning cosmic imagery and what he used to capture it.

Tucked inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, NASA's next cargo vehicle preps for its upcoming trip to the International Space Station. This week, one of the remaining steps before launch will be completed as c

NASA's New Horizons has found an icy oddity that highlights one of the key processes that is believed to shape this dwarf planet's surprisingly young surface.

Distinctive linear plumes of these particles extend as far as 2.5 miles downstream from shallow shipwreck sites.