The Ingenuity mini-chopper on NASA’s Perseverance Mars probe has suffered a major problem in its attempt at a fourth flight on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Thursday. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California tweeted on Thursday that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter “didn’t get off the ground, but the team is assessing the…
Boeing on Wednesday said it has paused deliveries of its 737 Max after an electrical issue grounded more than 100 of the planes worldwide earlier this month. The problem is the latest to impact the planes, which were grounded for most of 2019 and 2020 after two fatal crashes killed 346 people. Boeing had resumed…
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90, family statement says. Astronaut Michael Collins has often been called “the forgotten astronaut.” He flew to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969, but never set foot there. During the mission, Collins orbited the Moon, doing photography and keeping the command module ready to receive moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when…
Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order for 25 A321neo (New Engine Option) aircraft. This is in addition to Delta’s 2017 order of 100 A321neo aircraft. These planes will be powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines. “With our customers ready to reclaim the joy of travel, this agreement positions Delta for growth while…
Addenbrooke’s Hospital helipad destroyed by departing aircraft A hospital’s helipad has temporarily closed after it was badly damaged by the draught from a departing aircraft. The structure at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge was thrown into the air as the USAF CV22 Osprey took off on Wednesday. Its crew had been taking part in medical transfer training.…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here taking off, hovering and then landing on the Martian surface on April 19, 2021. The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shot video of the helicopter’s flight.
Russia is ready to start building its own space station with the aim of launching it into orbit by 2030 if President Vladimir Putin gives the go-ahead, the head of its Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday. The project would mark a new chapter for Russian space exploration and an end to more than two…
NASA and SpaceX Reschedule Launch for Friday. NASA and SpaceX now are targeting 5:49 a.m. EDT Friday, April 23, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station due to unfavorable weather conditions along the flight path on Thursday. Although conditions around the launch site were expected to be favorable for…
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Police are investigating after the body of a man was found underneath a plane that had landed at Amsterdam airport from Nigeria. The man is thought to have died of hypothermia after the near seven hour flight from Nigeria to the Netherlands. The man, thought to be a stowaway, was discovered inside a wheel arch…
A World War II-era plane taking part in the Cocoa Beach Air Show made an emergency landing in the waters just off the Patrick Space Force Base beaches on Saturday afternoon. A video posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon showed the single-engine TBM Avenger make a “soft” landing in the shallow waters near Cocoa Beach.…
A U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was escorted by a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet off Russia’s southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean Friday. According to Tass Russian News Agency, the Russian Defense Ministry released this statement: “A MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled from an airfield in the Kamchatka region to identify and escort…