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Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship to space station for NASA

The craft is hauling more than 8,200 lbs. (3,719 kilograms) of cargo that include scientific equipment, fresh food and supplies for the seven astronauts on board the space station. It's also packed with new hardware and spacewalk equipment.

Northrop Grumman will launch a Cygnus cargo craft to the space station today. Watch it live!

The Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft will blast off atop a two-stage Antares rocket from Pad 09A at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:36 p.m. EST (17361736 GMT).

Antares rocket loaded with time-sensitive cargo for launch to space station Saturday

The final few items were sealed inside the Cygnus cargo freighter Friday afternoon at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a facility owned by the state of Virginia co-located with NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. With the ...

FAA closes investigation of SpaceX's Starship SN9's test-flight crash

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype is a big step closer to liftoff. Elon Musk's company is gearing up to launch that vehicle, known as SN10, on a 6-mile-high (10 kilometers) test flight from its South Texas site in the near future. And such preparations can really ...

Antares rocket launches heavy cargo load to International Space Station

The on-time launch was the 14th flight by an Antares rocket and the 16th mission by a Cygnus cargo ship, which Northrop Grumman named the S.S. Katherine Johnson after the trailblazing NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures.".

Hitting the Books: How NASA survived the Reagan era 'Dark Ages'

Engadget

Engadget

During the Reagan administration, for example, the agency saw its budget pared down in favor of building up arms ahead of an anticipated Cold War faceoff with the Soviet Union, as we see in this excerpt from David W Brown's latest work, The Mission.

Magnetic reversal 42000 years ago might have triggered extinctions

EarthSky

EarthSky

Magnetic reversal 42,000 years ago might have triggered extinctions. Posted by Kelly Whitt in Earth | Human World | February 20, 2021. 42,000 years ago, a breakdown in Earth's magnetic field led to environmental catastrophes and mass extinctions. Sharing is ...

The Atlantic

Black Holes Keep Running Into One Another

The Atlantic

Using gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in an entirely new way. But this first event didn't revolutionize our understanding of black holes—nor could it. This collision would be the first of many, astronomers knew, and only with that ...

Meet the First Helo on Mars: A Deep Dive Into What Makes Ingenuity So…Ingenious

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics

To ensure the helicopter would be ready for its Red Planet debut, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, developed two Ingenuity prototypes. They subjected one prototype to rigorous environmental testing to see whether ...

The Wall Street Journal

When Zoom Couldn't Cut It, Dad Took Over Gym Class

The Wall Street Journal

Without sports and gym class, the Bodenhamer boys (left to right) Solomon, 8, Titus, 9, and Jeremiah, 6, now do CrossFit-style workouts led by their dad, Jeremy Bodenhamer, in the garage of their Goleta, Calif., home.