Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on the surface of the Moon on Jan. 20, 2024. Despite a power issue with the lander, the event holds both political and technical importance. It’s Japan’s first lunar landing – making it only the fifth country in the world to successfully land […]
Jan. 10—As winter temperatures drop to dangerous levels, Community Missions Corporation is offering shelter to those who don’t have a warm place to sleep. The Community Missions cold weather shelter called “My Brother’s House,” located at 700 Olive St. in St. Joseph, is open to men and women in need of overnight shelter during cold […]
We’ll have to wait a little longer for humanity’s return to the moon. In a media teleconference on Tuesday (Jan. 9), NASA leadership stated that its flagship Artemis 2 mission will be delayed from November 2024 until September 2025. And the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission, originally targeted for late 2025, will now aim for September […]
NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, a flight to send four astronauts on a voyage around the moon and back, is being delayed nearly a year, from late 2024 to at least September 2025, NASA announced Tuesday. Likewise, the first astronaut moon landing is slipping from late 2025 to September 2026. “As we remind everybody at […]
NASA’s efforts to return astronauts to the moon have been delayed — again. The agency announced Tuesday that its next Artemis mission, which was to send four astronauts on a flight around the moon in a next-generation capsule, will launch in September 2025 rather than later this year. A subsequent mission to actually land astronauts […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap. Now two private companies are hustling to get the U.S. back in the game, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended. It’s part of a NASA-supported effort to kick-start commercial […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Vancouver Police Department is cracking down on car thieves in Washington. The new focus has already resulted in arrests but police say this is just the beginning. Just last week, officers conducted a stolen vehicle operation in which they worked with researchers and analysts to map out the best places […]
Next year is bound to be packed with exciting spaceflight missions, from long-awaited rocket launches to incredible moon missions — including some that’ll dabble in lunar landers and crewed flights — a new Jupiter probe headed to the beyond and even a demonstration flight of a new International Space Station resupply spacecraft. With that in […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. This year held some truly out-there moments in the world of science and space travel. With SpaceX’s Mars rocket erupting into a ball of flames over the ocean (twice) and a spacecraft swinging by Earth to […]
The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload […]
Dec. 15—Community Missions of Niagara Falls was awarded a $626,076 grant from the SNUG Street Outreach programs. The award was among $20.3 million given to 16 different community-based organizations and hospitals that fund outreach workers, hospital responders, social workers and case managers and work to reduce shootings and save lives. New York State’s SNUG program […]