In the second spacewalk in less than a week, two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to wrap up a battery upgrade project started four years ago, and completed various other small tasks.
Read MoreTwo NASA astronauts performed the first spacewalk of 2021 at the International Space Station to connect cables to a new European science platform as well as prepare the outpost for future power upgrades.
Read MoreFor the first time, NASA fired up the core stage for its Space Launch System, which is designed to send humans into deep space. However, an anomaly prompted the engines to shut down much earlier than planned.
Read MoreFollowing 38 days in space and 35 days at the International Space Station, SpaceX’s CRS-21 Dragon spacecraft has returned to Earth, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Tampa, Florida.
Read MoreWith the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice president of the United States, I felt it best to talk about what is likely to happen in the coming months regarding human spaceflight and NASA as the Biden administration takes over the executive branch of the federal government.
Read MoreJust three weeks after launching its first operational Crew Dragon to the International Space Station, SpaceX sent a cargo variant of that capsule design to the orbiting outpost.
Read MoreSpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” and its four-person astronaut occupants arrived at the International Space Station a day after its evening launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Read MoreThe International Space Station has just crossed 20 years of continuous human presence as its unbroken string of expedition crews continue to perform a wide range of scientific research aboard this multinational outpost.
Read MoreToday’s International Space Station is a sprawling complex the size of a football field with over a dozen habitable modules and hundreds of science experiments ongoing at any given time. When the crew of Expedition 1 arrived in November 2000, it was much smaller and their mission was very different — activating this new international outpost.
Read MoreDo you have Moon rocks to sell, or have a way to collect samples of the lunar surface? If so, you just might have a customer willing to pay for said samples!
On Sept. 10, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced a request for quotations for commercial companies to provide proposals to collect lunar samples from the Moon for the U.S. space agency to purchase.
Read MoreOrbital Velocity is designed to be "living time capsule" about the International Space Station.
This project is an attempt to bridge an information gap between space agencies and companies, as well as a public that supports space endeavors with their tax dollars. Despite the importance of the space station, the general public doesn't always know what is happening aboard this amazing complex on a regular basis. Research being conducted isn't always readily available and what information is out there can sometimes be difficult to understand. Some people aren't even aware there is an active space program, let alone a space station.
Orbital Velocity hopes to change that by building a database of information through blogs, a website, small videos and longer documentary-like series'.
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