Clearing the heavens of space junk Clearing the heavens of space junk 06:17 NASA confirmed Monday that a mystery object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station. The cylindrical object that tore through the home in Naples…
While millions of people looked skyward at Monday’s total solar eclipse on Monday, a handful of earthlings took in a much different view of the rare phenomenon — from the International Space Station. As the station orbited above southeastern Canada, flight engineers Matthews Dominick and Jeanette Epps managed to photograph and videotape the moon’s shadow…
Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, successfully launched an unpiloted New Shepard capsule to the edge of space and back Tuesday, the first flight of the sub-orbital spacecraft since a booster failure last year triggered a dramatic abort. No passengers were on board for the 2022 flight and while the booster…
