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NASA Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The...

May Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it’s not as bad as the promotions that come out of the woodwork on April Fools’ Day, I think I’m drawing the line at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum adding an X-wing Starfighter from Star Wars to its collection. The museum announced today that the famous ship would be going on display in 2022, via a prop loan from the Disney-owned production company, Lucasfil...

Welcome to Wonder Theory, your weekly space and science digest. This week, we remember Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, celebrate the discovery of a fluorescent amphibian, learn the fate of baby mammoths, and more.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90 Michael Collins (1930 - 2021) NASA NASA NASA Apollo 11 astronaut Major General Michael Collins (USAF (Retired)) has died at the age of 90 after a battle with cancer. In 1969, Collins was the Command Module Pilot for the first crewed lunar landing, and remained in orbit aboard the Command Service Module (CSM) Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the surface. One of the third group of NASA astronauts chosen in the 1960...

Astronaut Michael Collins. Source: Twitter/AstroMCollins When you think of the Apollo 11 mission, you think of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.  Many forget that while the first two men on the moon were conducting their first walks on our largest satellite, there was another man, far from home, completely alone, without whom the mission would have never been a success. Michael Collins, Apollo astronaut and “third man” of the Apollo moon mission has died at the age of 90 after a battle with...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Michael Collins, one of the astronauts vital to the success of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, has died. Collins, who served as an astronaut at NASA for seven years of his life, passed away at the age of 90 after a battle with cancer. News of Michael Collins death was first shared by his family (which includes former All My Children star Kate Collins), who notified the public via the astronauts social media platforms. Read their statement, which includes Collin...

Spaceflight Insider Derek Richardson Michael Collins during a crew photo for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Credit: NASA Former NASA Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins died April 28, 2021, after battling cancer, according to his family. He was 90 years old. In a statement from his family, they said Collins spent his final days peacefully with his family by his side. “Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, his final challenge, in the same way...

Astronaut Michael Collins, part of moon-landing Apollo 11 mission, dies at 90 Nelson Oliveira © Bettmann Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, studies flight plan during simulation training at the Kennedy Space Center. Astronaut Michael Collins, one of the three members of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969, has died after a “valiant” battle with cancer, his family said Wednesday. Collins, who was 90, died ...

American Opinion: The lesson of a little helicopter on Mars American Opinion: That little helicopter on Mars will make more flights, but it has no point except to expand our sense of the possible. If we can fly on Mars, we are capable of so much else Written By: Tampa Bay Times (TNS) | 7:30 am, Apr. 22, 2021 × American OpinionPaula Pandey Chhetri / Forum Design Center The little helicopter weighs only 4 pounds, and its first flight lasted a mere 30 seconds and reached a...

The little helicopter weighs only 4 pounds, and its first flight lasted a mere 30 seconds and reached an altitude of only 10 feet. But it did so on Mars. Stop and wonder about that for a moment. For the first time, humankind has achieved powered flight on another planet. A feat that would be nothing for a 10-year-old child to accomplish with a backyard drone takes on new meaning when it happens 178 million miles away on a planet with 1% of Earth’s atmosphere. Engineers at NASA’s Jet P...