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Commentary: The lesson of a little helicopter on Mars NASA Ingenuity helicopter makes historic first flight on Mars Replay Video UP NEXT 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 atmosph...

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set Richard Speed Wed 21 Apr 2021 // 08:31 UTC Share Despite scratched silver blocks and a woeful VIP programme, The Register has built Lego's new Space Shuttle Discovery - and we never want to see another silver sticker again. Click to enlarge There was a certain inevitability regarding the Lego Space Shuttle set. The plastic brick behemoth had already unleashed sets including a colossal Saturn V and minifig-sized Apollo Lunar Module, as well as marked the 10th anniversary of L...

First Australian selected to be NASA astronaut We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Kerrie Dougherty Save Normal text size Philip Chapman 1935-2021 Some people know from an early age what they want to do in life. Philip Kenyon Chapman was one of those, turning his childhood fascination with space exploration into reality when, in 1967, he became the first Australian-born person to be selected as a NASA astronaut. Astronaut Philip Chapman in an official NASA portrait. Credit:NASA Born in Melbourne on March 4, 1935, Philip Chapman was the s...

Editorial: The lesson of a little helicopter on Mars Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board, Tampa Bay Times © NASA/JPL-Caltech/TNS NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image as it hovered over the Martian surface on Monday, April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet. 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 anoth...

There could be 15 trees throughout the UK grown from seeds that were flown around the moon by NASA on the Apollo 14 mission, and scientists are trying to find them. The Moon Trees, grown from orbiting seeds flown in 1971, could be anywhere in the UK, including in private gardens, according to the Royal Astronomical Society. NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa took 500 seeds from Sycamore, Loblolly Pine and other varieties of trees with him as the Apollo 14 capsule orbited the moon. Most were planted in the US, but it is thought about 15 came to the UK - and now the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) an...