Soviet-Era Engine Is Blamed for Antares Rocket Explosion
By KENNETH CHANG
The Orbital Sciences Corporation said that a preliminary analysis pointed to a failure of a turbopump for the Oct. 28 fireball in Virginia.
When the New Horizons probe passes the former planet next year, it may look familiar: Neptune’s moon Triton, scrutinized 25 years ago by Voyager 2, is probably a long-lost brother of Pluto.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation said that a preliminary analysis pointed to a failure of a turbopump for the Oct. 28 fireball in Virginia.
Msgr. Albacete, a former aerospace researcher turned Roman Catholic priest, became one of the Vatican’s most articulate, unofficial defenders in the United States.
The Virgin Galactic space plane that broke apart on Friday shifted early into a high-drag configuration that is designed to slow it down.
Two recent accidents, one of them fatal, involving commercial rockets have underscored the high risks and soaring costs involved in any spaceflight.
The company and federal investigators began their investigations into what caused a space plane to crash Friday in the Mojave Desert, while the pilot killed was identified as Michael Alsbury.
A selection of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover as it drives toward Mount Sharp.
The Academy Award-winning director James Marsh discusses his newest project, “The Theory of Everything,” which chronicles the life of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
The demise of these lizards should make us question the ethics of animal research in space.