Falling space debris is increasingly threatening airplanes, researchers say
Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...
OTD In Space – February 7: 1st Untethered Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Manoeuvring Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a ...
John Van Nostrand: All needs remembered, somehow
A person on X posted a picture last Tuesday. The picture was one of the pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger recovered after its explosion on Jan. 28, 1986. The picture, posted by someone with the ...
Chilling story behind the ‘scariest photo ever taken in space’
The 'scariest photo ever taken in space' has an incredible story behind it, as it captured an astronaut completely cut off from everything else.