This is Beirut, 20/04 15:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cake, gifts, and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA's oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz capsule carrying the American ...
This is Beirut, 19/03 09:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Home at last: After an unexpected nine-month stay in space, a pair of NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth on Tuesday, concluding a mission that captured global attention and became a political flashpoint. A SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship carrying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams – alongside fellow American Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut ...
This is Beirut, 21/02 11:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars? Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket. Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-04 19:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, the online payments billionaire and the first private astronaut to ever perform a spacewalk, as the next head of NASA. The nod could spark questions about potential conflicts of interest, given Isaacman's extensive financial ties to Elon Musk, who is set to co-chair a ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-16 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Should NASA return to the Moon or go straight to Mars? Maintain its focus on climate science, or pivot away? President-elect Donald Trump's second term, alongside SpaceX CEO and new consigliere Elon Musk, could mark a Big Bang for the US space program. The brash billionaire duo share a knack for disruption and a hunger for making history — ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-09-07 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Boeing's beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA deemed it too risky to bring them back aboard the spacecraft. After years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission -- a final ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-26 22:54 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A lunar lander from the United States, which toppled over during its touchdown, has transmitted its initial images from the southernmost point ever reached by any craft on the Moon. An American lunar lander that tipped over during touchdown has sent back its first images from the farthest south any vessel has ever landed on the Moon. The ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-23 11:59 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nova-C successfully landed on the Moon on Friday, February 23. This latest lunar landing does not only mark the American comeback to the Moon, but also the first to be carried out by a private company. For the first time since the Apollo era, an American spaceship landed on the Moon: an uncrewed commercial robot, funded by NASA to pave the way ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-01-08 18:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a critical loss of fuel. This was a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades. Fixed to the top of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander ...