By Nick Perry, The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It’s been an unusual journey already for […]
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What’d I Miss?: Predicting the real winner of the billionaire space race?
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | Next > More cartoons from The Colorado Sun
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Colorado-based flight controllers send NASA spacecraft on 2-year trip back to earth with rubble from an asteroid
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years. Osiris-Rex […]
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Colorado’s Sierra Nevada plans to develop commercial space station and serve space tourists
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems division has spent years developing habitats for life in Earth’s orbit and the vehicle to get people there. On Wednesday, the aerospace contractor announced plans to put the two together and build a space station. Sierra Nevada’s station will be a commercial successor to NASA’s soon-to-be retired International Space Station. […]
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Colorado’s Aerospace Alley prepares for Space Command move to Alabama
By Dan Boyce, CPR News COLORADO SPRINGS — When Kathy Boe heard the news in January that President Donald Trump was moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, she understood why Trump was making the move — even though she expected Colorado Springs to be the frontrunner in the […]
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Opinion: A community college collaboration is a key reason why the Space Command HQ should be in Colorado
Dear President Biden: Congratulations on your historic and monumental win. We look forward to working with you to get America back on track, and as you said, Build Back Better. And while you have a significant amount on your plate early in your term — most importantly, providing COVID-19 relief and a pathway to vaccination […]
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2 Colorado astronauts could be headed to the moon with NASA
COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado residents were placed on a list of astronauts that could soon travel to the moon, officials said. NASA Astronauts Matthew Dominick of Wheat Ridge and Jessica Watkins of Lafayette were among 18 astronauts selected to the Artemis Program on Dec. 9, The Gazette reported Sunday. NASA announced plans to have the next […]
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The first images of OSIRIS-REx touching an asteroid have made it back to Earth
NASA’s first mission to touch an asteroid and collect a sample of pristine space dirt is now viewable in high-resolution images sent overnight Tuesday from 200 million miles away. The OSIRIS-REx mission completed its first and possibly only touchdown on the asteroid Bennu at approximately 4:12 p.m. on Tuesday, as operators and engineers monitored the […]
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How Colorado shaped NASA’s first mission to collect asteroid dirt
Four years after leaving Earth, a pogo stick developed in Littleton will touch the surface of the asteroid Bennu, use a vacuum cleaner in reverse to blow up asteroid dirt and catch anything that falls into its ring-shaped container, and then hop back up to the spacecraft that’s been orbiting the asteroid for the past […]
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Coronavirus gives us no space to grieve
I can still taste the salty slime of my own saliva and snot. I was crying and the mask kept refilling, no matter how many times I broke the directive to keep it on so that I could wipe my face. That was the one stipulation. As we said goodbye, we had to wear masks […]