NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth
- 12-Oct-2022
NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around […]
NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed
- 31-Dec-2018
A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the […]
NASA poised to launch first Sun-skimming spaceship
- 08-Aug-2018
FLORIDA: NASA is poised to launch a $1.5 billion spacecraft on a brutally hot journey toward the Sun, offering scientists the closest-ever view of our strange and mysterious star. After the Parker Solar Probe blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 11, it will become the first spacecraft ever to fly through the Sun’s […]
Spaceship battler Dreadnought launches on PS4
- 05-Dec-2017
The spaceship combat flight simulator Dreadnought developed by Yager Development and published by Grey Box with Six Foot is now available on PlayStation 4. The first previews were shown in 2014 and Dreadnought entered closed beta on 29 April 2016, until it was at the PlayStation Experience on 3 December 2016, and finally is officially […]
Apple Park: Apple to open new spaceship campus in April
- 22-Feb-2017
CUPERTINO, USA: Apple announced on Wednesday that Apple Park, the company’s new 175-acre campus, will be ready for for occupation for employees in April. The process of moving more than 12,000 people will take over six months, and construction of the buildings and parklands is scheduled to continue through the summer. Apple Park was envisioned by […]
Channeling Steve Jobs, Apple seeks design perfection at new ‘spaceship’ campus
- 07-Feb-2017
SAN FRANCISCO: Inside the original Macintosh computer, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs inscribed the signatures of his team, revealing his deep concern for even the hidden features of his products. His last work – Apple sprawling new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. – will be a fitting tribute: a futuristic campus built with astonishing attention to detail. From […]
NASA unveils spaceship hatch 50 years after fatal Apollo 1 fire
- 28-Jan-2017
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA: NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program’s fatal Apollo launchpad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test. NASA astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died when thick smoke filled the crew […]
Boeing opens commercial spaceship plant in Florida
- 06-Sep-2015
CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing Co (BA.N) took the wraps off an assembly plant on Friday for its first line of commercial spaceships, which NASA plans to use to fly crews to the International Space Station, officials said.
Test flight of Virgin Galactic spaceship ends in fatal crash in California
- 01-Nov-2014
MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA: A passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Friday near the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other, officials said.