“Oh, that view is tremendous.”
On This Day, Astronaut John Glenn spoke these words as he became the first American to orbit the Earth while on the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. In Glenn’s historic Feb. 20, 1962 Mercury flight in his Friendship 7, he orbited the Earth three times over 4 hours and 44 minutes.
 The ninth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Tuesday, May 27. The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also...
2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit Explore Mars is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Humans to the Moon and Mars Summit (H2M2). H2M2 will gather the top experts in Moon and Mars architecture, science, human health, innovation, policy, STEM education,...
 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system’s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With Webb’s advanced sensitivity, astronomers have studied...
