The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Only five countries have done it. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines ...
Firefly Aerospace on Sunday became the first to achieve complete success with its Blue Ghost lunar lander, on the northeastern edge of the near side of the moon. A vacuum already has collected lunar ...
It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...
Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the program ends with Apollo 17 in 1972. Still the only country to send humans to the moon, the U.S. hopes to return crews to the ...
No American spacecraft has successfully landed intact and upright on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, but one private space company is looking to change that. Firefly Aerospace will be landing ...
There's already been plenty of buzz about what we could see with the next iPhone, likely called the iPhone 17, from a slimmer version of the upcoming handset to -- finally -- a new screen with a ...
While it’s more common to see 17-inch laptops these days, there still aren’t a huge amount of options out there, and while it used to be that your main option was gaming laptops, things have ...
On Feb. 17, 1965, its successor Ranger 8 launched ... Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar ...
On Feb. 17, 1965, its successor ... Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
The iPhone 17 Pro probably won’t land until September 2025, but this being a high-profile handset we’re already hearing leaks and rumors about it – along with the rest of the iPhone 17 series.
RETRO REPORT: President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, an unexpected pivot in U.S. foreign policy, helped end the Cold War. But it left Taiwan’s fate uncertain. President Richard Nixon ...