Apr 9, 2026 | Michigan, Space
When the US this month sent its first crewed rocket mission into space in 50 years, Michigan-made products went along for the ride. Blades and nozzles in the four engines of the Artemis II rocket came from Moeller Aerospace in Harbor Springs, a state supplier to NASA...
Apr 9, 2026 | Featured, Space
Artemis II astronauts made history Monday as they took a trip around the moon and reached a maximum distance from Earth of 252,756 miles, surpassing the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by over 4,000 miles. The Orion spacecraft’s four-person crew has traveled...
Apr 9, 2026 | Featured, Satellites, Space
Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% between 2014 and 2022, a new study using satellite images has revealed. But some areas, including those struck by war and natural disasters, or those in countries with effective light pollution and...
Apr 7, 2026 | Featured, Satellites, Space
SpaceX’s Starlink division confirmed yesterday that it lost contact with a satellite on Sunday and is trying to locate space debris that might have been produced by… whatever happened there. Starlink said there appeared to be “no new risk” to other space operations...
Apr 2, 2026 | Featured, Space
The Artemis 2 astronauts have left Earth, but they aren’t on their way to the moon quite yet. NASA’s Artemis 2 mission Lunced on Wednesday, April 1 from Florida’s Space Coast, sending four people to Earth orbit aboard an Orion capsule. The quartet...
Apr 1, 2026 | Featured, Space
The crew has gotten attention for the firsts beyond the mission itself. Glover will be the first person of color to leave Earth orbit, Koch the first woman to do so and Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, the first non-American. “We do think about it a lot,”...
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