Oct 14, 2021 | Featured, Space
Ninety-year-old William Shatner, who gained fame portraying Captain Kirk on the original “Star Trek,” just hitched a ride aboard a suborbital spacecraft that grazed the edge of outer space before parachuting to a landing, making Shatner the oldest...
Oct 7, 2021 | Solar, Space
The goal of the Lucy mission is simple: get close enough to eight of the so-called “Trojan asteroids” to snap photos and beam them back to NASA. Those images could verify long-held suspicions by scientists that the Trojan asteroids are peppered with organic...
Sep 30, 2021 | Climate, Robots, Space
On July 7, 2021, NASA sent two robotic explorers to the Arctic to collect sea surface temperature data and improve estimates of ocean temperatures in that region. Pairing up with Saildrone, a designer and manufacturer of non-crewed surface vehicles or USVs,...
Sep 8, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Space
An AI-powered robot with a digital face is ready for a new mission on the International Space Station. The robot, called CIMON-2 (it’s short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) worked alongside two European astronauts on past missions to...
Aug 26, 2021 | Featured, Robots, Space
NASA is talking about software that it uses in autonomous robots that operate inside ISS. The software is called ISAAC, which stands for Integrated System for Autonomous and Adaptive Caretaking. The software was integrated into Bumble, one of the Astrobee robots...
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