HOUSTON (KIAH) — When NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams looks up at the sky, he sees more than just bright stars, he sees his incredible past. He is one of less than 250 people on the planet, that have been to the International Space Station. He has been more than once and is no stranger to accomplishing remarkable things.
CW39 Anchor Sharron Melton sits down to talk with Jeff Williams. In part one of her interview they talk about so many new projects and plans being made for NASA. They talk about what it’s like seeing everything that’s happening with NASA. The Mars Rover Perseverance and Ingenuity Helicopter, and partnerships with Space X taking new Astronauts to the International Space Station, and more, keep NASA moving to the next frontier.
Splashdown in Gulf of Mexico moves SpaceX closer to private human spaceflight - The Washington
One day, Elon Musk has said, he would like human spaceflight to be as routine as commercial airline travel, with regular flights through the atmosphere ferrying astronauts around the solar system.
But after Sunday's flawless return of four astronauts to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, the company has made space travel look easy, at least for one flight, and even had some fun with it.
Blue Origin is ready to start selling suborbital space travel tickets
Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin is about start selling seats for its New Shepard rocket. Prices have not yet been set, but with seats on Virgin Galactic's suborbital flight costing $250,000, it's safe to say it won't be cheap.
Cargo ships are among the worst polluters. A new wind-powered concept could transform the industry.
The World's First Space Tourist Recalls His Trip to the International Space Station 20 Years
Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, spent eight days at the International Space Station in 2001.
Space tourism once seemed like an idea for the distant future, but with the world's first space hotel set to open in 2027 and companies like SpaceX , Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic vying to make space travel more broadly available, it seems like the future is now.
And it all started 20 years ago, when U.S. millionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist .
60 years ago, Alan Shepard became the first American in space | U.S.
Former shuttle landing site to welcome spacecraft again when Dream Chaser missions begin in 2022
Sierra Nevada Corp. has been in line to become the third commercial partner to send supplies to the International Space Station with its mini-shuttle-looking Dream Chaser for three years. On Tuesday, the company finally got the OK to land its uncrewed spacecraft on the runway formerly used by the space shuttle program, paving the way for its first launch and landing in 2022.
Now run by Space Florida under a lease from NASA, what was once known as the Shuttle Landing Facility, where Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at the completion of STS-135 on July 21, 2011, could once again welcome regular landings from a shuttle-like spacecraft, once it gets final clearance from the FAA.
Enhanced Diet May Help Astronauts Adapt to Spaceflight | NASA
NASA's New Horizons Mission Reaches a New Milestone | Planetary News
NASA's New Horizon spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager captured this image on December 25, 2020, showing the starfield the Voyager 1 spacecraft is located in (yellow circle). The Voyager spacecraft is too faint to be seen in this image situated in interstellar space, 11.2 billion miles from New Horizons; however, the precise location can be ascertained through NASA's radio-tracking. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Southwest Research Institute.
NASA's New Horizons mission, whose aim is to understand those worlds located in the outer regions of our solar system, recently reached a new milestone. On April 17, 2021, New Horizons became the fifth spacecraft to travel 50 times farther from the Sun than Earth (nearly 7.5 billion kilometers), following in the space-travel "footsteps" of the successful Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11 missions.
321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week
Welcome to 321 Launch, our wrap-up of the biggest space news you might have missed over the last week.
Nelson was raised in Malabar and graduated from Melbourne High School. He later represented the Space Coast in Congress and flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986 as a member of Congress. He was elected to the Senate in 2000 and served 18 years.
Outsourcing space missions brings travel to the human level
Over the past couple of weeks we have seen some big news regarding human space travel, and I wanted to share some of my excitement.
During the Cold War NASA was created as a government agency to send humans to the moon. It was a mostly government project to invent, test and run all the equipment needed to get to the moon. NASA accomplished that in 1969, made a few more trips, and then that was pretty much it for nearly 50 years.
Well, NASA is going back, but this time with lots of help from the private sector. Since space is no longer of only interest to warring but not warring governments like the U.S. and Soviet Union, several companies have the technology and commercial interest in space exploration.
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