We're all looking at an asteroid named Bennu. Bennu is believed to be from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but has diverted its course due to sunlight, gravitational pull, and its own expulsions. Bennu is pretty cool, with NASA collecting a sample from the asteroid and bringing it back to Earth. On Monday,... Continue Reading →
Ever wanted to have your own personal spaceship? A space suit is basically that. It must protect you from the extremes of space, heat, cold, and dust. If you are on the moon, there's plenty of dust to go around. Moon dust is actually glass-like and should not be breathed in (which we hope can... Continue Reading →
We are all taught that failure is bad as we learn in school. You were grounded for getting Fs and rewarded for getting As. We love to report space victories, but the truth is, we learn from our failures. On October 11, a seemingly routine Roscosmos launch to the International Space Station went a bit... Continue Reading →
Sure, you can pick out Orion, the big and little dippers, and the North star. Maybe you even know your other zodiac constellations, but those are all in the sky visible to our naked eye. But if you are mapping gamma rays, you can see many more stars in space than from Earth. Scientists using... Continue Reading →
As we are kind of alien nuts over here at Hawk and Young, and as it's totally possible that some form of life is out there somewhere, we are so pleased to report that Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found two new planets orbiting 'near by' stars and 73 possible other planets causing dips... Continue Reading →
If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you know all about NASA and SpaceX, but you hardly hear about India and ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation. Since 1993, India has been launching satellites for other countries, contracting their reliable rocket as a taxi for satellites. They only failed 2 or 3 times to deliver... Continue Reading →
This is not a joke pulled from cartoons, this is a real space story. Sometime in the night of August 30th a micrometeorite struck the outside of the Souyez MS-09, which is a Russian spacecraft attached to the International Space Station. It is not a part of the return module, which means they can... Continue Reading →
Just a quick note that TESS has had a few thruster boosts as planned to propel it into the correct orbit. Another burn next week will be timed to occur as TESS reaches its new apogee, followed by two additional perigee maneuvers that will fine-tune the satellite’s trajectory and set up for a flyby of... Continue Reading →
The fourth man to walk on the moon, alongside the third man Pete Conrad, Alan Bean first went into aboard Apollo 12 and was the lunar module pilot. However, he worked at NASA for years sitting on his flight experience and bragging about his intelligence without a flight assignment. "Pete [Conrad], who knew me from... Continue Reading →
Hawk and Young eagerly watched the launch of TESS on a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. "She" is looking for dimming stars that would signal the presence of exoplanets eclipsing them. By orbiting between the Earth and the Moon, unaffected by orbital debris and space... Continue Reading →
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