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NASAs super pressure balloon, carrying the Super-BIT telescope, has landed back on Earth after circling the Southern Hemisphere five times.

A new report found that the Department of Defense needs to improve its oversight and reporting process for spare F-35 aircraft parts.

NASA successfully completed a flight test of its super pressure balloon carrying the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) science mission at 9:27 a.m. EDT, Thursday, May 25, after some 39 days and 14 hours of flight.

The balloon completed a record five full circuits about the Southern Hemisphere’s mid-latitudes

Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2023 - NASA successfully completed a flight test of its super pressure balloon carrying the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) science mission at 9:27 a.m. EDT, Thursday, May 25, after som

In August 1965, NASA established the program that would follow the first Apollo moon landing. Called Saturn-Apollo Applications, it would have seen more than 30 manned lunar and space station missions using Apollo spacecraft and rockets in the late 1960s/early 1970s. That the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967 killed three astronauts is well known; less so is that it also killed NASA's ambitious Apollo-derived program. Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree describes Saturn-Apollo Application...

NASA's Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) has concluded its globetrotting journey.

An unknown number of Ospreys remain grounded after officials ordered a retrofit in February to address a safety issue.

All jets had received the modification earlier this month, but the Pentagon is still trying to figure out why a mysterious vibration is happening.

While US government officials will likely learn valuable lessons from the unpleasant situation with the lost and unaccounted for F-35 spare parts, whether these lessons will be implemented in the future is a different matter, warned a US Army vet.