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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel> <atom:link href="https://www.space.com/home/feed/site.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <title><![CDATA[ Space ]]></title> <link>https://www.space.com</link> <description><![CDATA[ ]]></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:05:31 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <item> <title><![CDATA[ 5 sci-fi movies that weren't great but still deserve a sequel ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>The usual disappointments aside, there are plenty of great sci-fi movies and shows, and our options have only gotten better recently due to film and TV studios scrambling to maintain modern audiences' interest in traditional audiovisual media. </p><p>Everyone knows about the next <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/star-wars-movies-in-order"><u>Star Wars</u></a> and <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/star-trek-movies-in-order"><u>Star Trek movies</u></a>, for example, but what about slightly overlooked releases that maybe deserved another shot to either expand or wrap up their intriguing narratives?</p><p>We know some, if not all, of our picks are divisive. But that's the point. This isn't a list of great movies that were unfairly treated (though we might have a soft spot for some), but rather a handful of entertaining flicks that either deserved to finish their story or had a premise enticing enough to warrant a sequel. Amidst all the huge franchises getting countless new installments automatically, it's a bummer these stories never got to continue.</p><p>As for the best sci-fi movies of all time, we've got a list of our own, which you may or may not agree with. Looking for more specific recommendations? We've explored the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-alien-invasion-movies"><u>best alien invasion movies</u></a>, <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-ai-movies"><u>best AI movies</u></a>, and <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-time-travel-movies"><u>best time travel movies of all time</u></a>, too. Art is subjective, but we think all those had pretty interesting things to say and show.</p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-movies"><u>The best sci-fi movies of all time</u></a></p><p><strong>Warning: Spoilers ahead for some of the movies on the list.</strong></p><h2 id="1-event-horizon-1997-2">1. Event Horizon (1997)</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1280px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="bHnAXjLPsaZbkYBEBF7pXe" name="Horizon.jpg" alt="a smiling man with a bloody face points a gun" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bHnAXjLPsaZbkYBEBF7pXe.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1280" height="720" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Wobbly in places and veering toward camp, Event Horizon had its (dark) heart in the right place. Conceptually, it's a fascinating <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-space-horror-movies"><u>sci-fi horror movie</u></a> that presented the metal idea of an experimental engine unexpectedly taking a spaceship through literal Hell during one of its first voyages. When a rescue mission comes looking for it, all hell breaks loose (pun intended). It was terrifying and filled with unique cosmic horror vistas.</p><p>While there were plans of reworking the concept into <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/event-horizon-series-amazon-1203291883/"><u>an Amazon-backed TV series</u></a> to be kickstarted by <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.gamesradar.com/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-review/"><u>Godzilla x Kong</u></a> director Adam Wingard a few years ago, as it stands, the IP is adrift in development hell. <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/event-horizon-director-paul-anderson-interview"><u>More than 25 years after the flick's release</u></a>, however, its cult status is only growing, so it's only a matter of time before, one way or another, a new dimension of horror is opened once again.</p><hr><h2 id="2-john-carter-2">2. John Carter</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1280px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="MGVtU7rP7i4jFZ2mihVc4n" name="Carter.jpg" alt="two humans and a humanoid alien stand in a desert landscape" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MGVtU7rP7i4jFZ2mihVc4n.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1280" height="720" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Walt Disney Pictures)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Before Disney acquired George Lucas' empire and Star Wars with it, or the entirety of 20th Century Studios' IP library (<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-avatar-2"><u>Avatar</u></a> included), the company was looking to kickstart a long-lasting sci-fi saga with <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/14849-mars-science-fiction-legacy.html"><u>Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars</u></a> and its sequels. In fact, director Andrew Stanton (of Pixar fame) <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://collider.com/john-carter-sequels-andrew-stanton-comments-sdcc/"><u>had firm plans ready for </u><u><em>at least</em></u><u> three of these movies</u></a>.</p><p>The first of those films, however, crashed and burned at the global box office, making "only" <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0401729"><u>$284 million</u></a> on a gigantic $263 million production budget, so all the ambitious plans were quickly put on ice. John Carter also <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_carter"><u>struggled to resonate</u></a> with many critics and sci-fi aficionados, though it's been reevaluated over the years, mostly because, if anything, it was well-made and adventurous in a way that many modern blockbusters aren't. With the books widely accepted as sci-fi classics, it's only a matter of time before <em>someone </em>takes another crack at them, but we still believe this adaptation deserved better.</p><hr><h2 id="3-independence-day-resurgence-2016-2">3. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1280px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="ZeekCFcvgi2vdRD3WsP89C" name="ID4.jpg" alt="scene from a movie showing a closeup of a multi-tentacled alien with greenish skin" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZeekCFcvgi2vdRD3WsP89C.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1280" height="720" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: 20th Century Studios)</span></figcaption></figure><p>While the original Independence Day has its detractors to this day, it's hard to argue against its impact on modern pop culture and alien invasion movies more specifically. Overall, it was a massive success in the 1990s, so of course a follow-up had to happen roughly 20 years later. <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/independence_day_resurgence"><u>It wasn't exactly good</u></a>, but we had a fun time regardless.</p><p>Independence Day: Resurgence was bombastic, but in 2016, audiences were much harder to impress, especially with a CGI-heavy Hollywood extravaganza. The world-building introduced was fascinating, however, so we were kind of sad to see the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1628841/"><u>$389 million box office haul</u></a> (on a $165 million budget) fail to justify <em>at least </em>another movie, especially after that crazy cliffhanger ending, which teased humanity banding alongside other oppressed species from outer space to take down <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/33266-would-aliens-kill-humans-movie-style.html"><u>the evil invaders</u></a> that spread like locusts across the cosmos.</p><hr><h2 id="4-alien-covenant-2017-2">4. Alien: Covenant (2017)</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1280px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="nDhB6ZWDFjCDahVRad5gAM" name="Covenant.jpg" alt="a man studies a strange gelatinous object he's holding with a pair of tweezers" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nDhB6ZWDFjCDahVRad5gAM.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1280" height="720" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: 20th Century Studios)</span></figcaption></figure><p>A harder-to-explain flop was that of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2316204/"><u>Alien: Covenant</u></a>, the follow-up to Prometheus and second of Ridley Scott's Alien prequels. What about the third one? It never got a chance to exist in any way. <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-romulus-film-first-teaser"><u>Alien: Romulus</u></a>, which opens this summer, might give us a bit of an explanation regarding David's ultimate fate and evil plans, though.</p><p>While the Alien movie series had traditionally been an easy money-maker for 20th Century Fox (now Studios), not enough people showed up for Covenant, and <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_covenant"><u>many viewers didn't agree</u></a> with the direction set by Prometheus and further explored in the second prequel. We can't blame them, as much of the mystique surrounding the xenos' origins did indeed vanish. But, at the same time, both movies were the kind of bold science fiction done on huge budgets <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/dune-part-two-review"><u>that isn't that common anymore</u></a>, and we're curious about how the finale would've directly tied into <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-movies-in-order"><u>Scott's 1979 masterpiece</u></a>.</p><hr><h2 id="5-terminator-dark-fate-2019-2">5. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1280px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="mb4CqUDgJL3NHUpRUqMyiX" name="Terminator.jpg" alt="closeup of the face of a tough, short-haired woman with a bloody face" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mb4CqUDgJL3NHUpRUqMyiX.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1280" height="720" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)</span></figcaption></figure><p>We've got some thoughts about <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-terminator-franchise-should-take-a-break-from-the-big-screen-in-order-to-evolve"><u>how the Terminator franchise should evolve</u></a> if it's not going offline anytime soon, but we also had a soft spot for the James Cameron-backed (for real that time) follow-up to Terminator 2. 2019's Dark Fate wasn't perfect by any means, but it actually had something to say and wanted to "reset" <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-terminator-movies-in-order"><u>the series</u></a> in bold and exciting ways. If one post-Cameron Terminator sequel deserved to grow into a new set of movies, it was that one.</p><p>To this day, we don't know for sure whether some of its ideas will be picked up in the future. Hell, it could even partially inform the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KedFX1pn2kA"><u>Terminator anime coming to Netflix</u></a>. But we sincerely believe there was more to be told with Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor and Natalia Reyes' Dani Ramos as they fought against a different (but equally ominous) AI threat.</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/five-sci-fi-movies-deserve-sequel</link> <description> <![CDATA[ We're constantly talking about good movies that deserve a sequel, but what about the divisive ones that, while not great, had cool ideas worth building upon? ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">ae6Rfm4tHNtD3P7Z5VA8hY</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KQxzNWWpvNfscc7MyvRtQT.jpg" type="image/jpeg" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Space Movies & Shows]]></category> <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KQxzNWWpvNfscc7MyvRtQT.jpg"> <media:credit><![CDATA[20th Century Studios]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[a woman in rain jacket stands near a mountain]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[a woman in rain jacket stands near a mountain]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ NASA begins delivering 1st Artemis Moon Trees to be planted across United States ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there.<br><br>NASA astronaut Christina Koch <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042624a-artemis-moon-tree-first-recipients.html" target="_blank">presented a loblolly pine "Moon Tree" sapling</a> to her home state of North Carolina on Wednesday (April 24). The tree began as one of more than 1,000 seeds that were flown around <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html">the moon</a> on NASA's uncrewed <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/artemis-1-going-back-to-the-moon">Artemis 1</a> mission in 2022.<br><br>"With the planting of an Artemis Moon Tree today at the governor's mansion, North Carolina is firmly planting the roots of exploration for generations to come," said Koch, who is targeted to launch in late 2025 as a <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-040423a-artemis-2-moon-crew-firsts-records.html" target="_blank">member of the Artemis 2 crew</a>.<br><br>Koch's presentation marked one of the first deliveries to a new generation of Moon Tree stewards, whom NASA has selected from across the country. Koch's alma mater, White Oak High School in Jacksonville, North Carolina, is another of the chosen recipients.<br><br>"I used to dream about going to space by looking up through the pine trees, and so, it was just a really great symbol of our commitment to North Carolina, North Carolina's commitment back to NASA, and all the amazing universities here that produce people for the aerospace industry," said Koch <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.jdnews.com/news/astronaut-jacksonville-native-visits-students-thursday-at-white-oak-high-school/article_3efea600-983e-5a3f-84aa-4f5c035a23fc.html" target="_blank">according to The Daily News</a>, the local newspaper in Jacksonville. "That whole Artemis generation that's coming up here and that we can't wait to see exploring space."</p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/artemis-program.html">NASA's Artemis program: Everything you need to know</a></p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="tNhMu3v8wAD2oFN38C2SLo" name="news-042624b-lg.jpg" alt="a woman in a blue flight suit stands at a podium with two smiling people and the american flag behind her." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tNhMu3v8wAD2oFN38C2SLo.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">Artemis 2 astronaut Christina Koch is seen the Governor's Mansion in her home state of North Carolina as Governor Roy Cooper looks on, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: North Carolina Governor's Office)</span></figcaption></figure><p>In addition to the loblolly pines, which are native to North Carolina, the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/27824-orion-spacecraft.html">Orion</a> spacecraft that flew on Artemis 1 also carried sycamore, sweetgum, Douglas-fir and giant sequoia seeds on its 270,000-mile (435,000 kilometers), 25-day journey. Back on <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html">Earth</a>, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service oversaw that the seeds germinated and grew into seedlings for their distribution as Artemis Moon Trees.<br><br>In August 2023, NASA put out a call for interested educational and community organizations <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082423a-artemis-moon-tree-seedlings-distrubtion.html" target="_blank">to apply to grow a Moon Tree</a>. The space agency chose recipients based on their ability to care for the various tree species and their position to use the tree's growth as an outreach tool in their neighborhoods, cities or states.<br><br>"Together, NASA and the Forest Service will deliver a piece of science history to communities across our nation," said Mike Kincaid, associate administrator of NASA's Office of STEM (science, engineering technology and math) engagement. "Through this partnership, future explorers, scientists and environmentalists will have the opportunity to nurture and be inspired by these Artemis artifacts in the community where they live, work and learn."<br><br>NASA is notifying the selected institutions in waves, with the first now underway, followed by groups in the fall of this year, spring 2025 and fall 2025. The agency plans to keep a record of the recipients <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-stem-artemis-moon-trees/" target="_blank">on its website</a>, noting the species of tree they received and their planting cycle.<br><br>Moon Tree hosts will also be invited to engage with the public at quarterly virtual gatherings beginning this summer.<br><br>A full list of the first, almost 50 recipients has yet to be made public, but according to a <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://twitter.com/MCAKodiaks/status/1783586602968854945" target="_blank">social media post</a>, Mary Chapa Academy in Greenfield, California received a sapling on Thursday (April 25).</p><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/31823-apollo-14-moon-trees.html">Moon mission's living monuments: Apollo 14's 'Moon Trees' 45 years later</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/10-greatest-images-nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission">The 10 greatest images from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html">The moon: Everything you need to know about Earth's companion</a></p></div></div><p>The idea for the Artemis 1 Moon Trees was grown out of a similar project carried out by <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/17465-apollo-14-facts.html">Apollo 14</a> command module pilot Stuart Roosa, who as a former Forest Service smoke jumper launched with hundreds of tree seeds in his personal preference kit on the 1971 moon mission. </p><p>The <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-020316b-apollo14-moon-trees.html" target="_blank">Apollo Moon Tree seedlings</a> were planted across the U.S., with many becoming part of the country's bicentennial celebration in 1976. </p><p>"A new era of Moon trees will one day stand tall in communities across America," said Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator. "NASA is bringing the spirit of exploration back down to Earth because space belongs to everyone. The Artemis Generation will carry forth these seedlings that will be fertile ground for creativity, inspiration, and discovery for years to come."</p><p><em>Follow </em><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://collectspace.com/" target="_blank"><em>collectSPACE.com</em></a><em> on </em><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://www.facebook.com/collectspace" target="_blank"><em>Facebook</em></a><em> and on Twitter at @</em><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="http://twitter.com/collectspace" target="_blank"><em>collectSPACE</em></a><em>. Copyright 2024 collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.</em></p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/artemis-moon-tree-first-recipients</link> <description> <![CDATA[ The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented an "Artemis 1 Moon Tree." ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">WsGzfFyhHjmVzyso47mURP</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yZn4xWhFchsBj7W8SUSKkW.jpg" type="image/jpeg" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:30:56 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Artemis]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yZn4xWhFchsBj7W8SUSKkW.jpg"> <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[a pine tree sapling stands in front of an american flag and a blue nasa flag inside a white-walled room]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[a pine tree sapling stands in front of an american flag and a blue nasa flag inside a white-walled room]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Superheroes fight acid-spewing xenomorphs in Marvel Comics' 'Aliens vs. Avengers' ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Happy "Alien" Day To All!</p><p>When <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/marvel-movies-in-order">Disney</a>, Marvel Comics' parent company, acquired most of 20th Century Fox's assets back in 2019, it was only a matter of time before fans started seeing valuable properties like the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/36832-alien-movies-most-terrifying-creatures.html">"Alien" franchise</a> seeping into its future content across all of the corporation's tentacular divisions.</p><p>We can just imagine dozens of creative executives concocting myriad mashups of intellectual properties before the contract ink dried — and what better medium to hatch a new crossover title than inside the pages of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/star-wars-jango-fett-marvel-comics-series">Marvel Comics</a>. </p><p><strong>Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-movies-ranked-worst-to-best">"Alien" movies, ranked worst to best</a></p><p>Those nasty xenomorphs — introduced in Ridley Scott's iconic 1979 sci-fi frightfest, "Alien" — are the perfect adversaries for some of the Idea Factory's most celebrated heroes, and now we're about to see the results of those ingenious integrations.</p><p>Presented under Marvel's 20th Century Studios imprint, a new "Aliens vs. Avengers" miniseries arrives starting July 24, and unprepared readers are going to be strapped in for a wild ride.</p><p>Written by the Eisner-nominated creator Jonathan Hickman ("The Avengers," "Fantastic Four") and paired with ravishing artwork by Esad Ribić ("Thor," "Conan the Barbarian"), this cataclysmic interspecies showdown represents the very first crossover of "Aliens" and the Marvel Universe.</p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1800px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:151.33%;"><img id="cuEtXt7V6CXUL3s56aUqQF" name="ava.jpg" alt="Superheroes converge under a toothy alien creature" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cuEtXt7V6CXUL3s56aUqQF.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1800" height="2724" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">The main cover for Marvel Comics' "Aliens vs. Avengers #1." </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Marvel Comics)</span></figcaption></figure><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-black-white-blood-marvel-comics">Xenomorphs strike terror in deep space in Marvel Comics' 'Alien: Black, White & Blood'</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/marvel-movies-in-order">Marvel movies in order: chronological & release order</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-streaming-guide-where-to-watch-alien-movies-online">Alien streaming guide: Where to watch the Alien movies online</a></p></div></div><p>Here's the official synopsis:</p><p>"The four-part epic is set in a new timeline many years in the future and features older, grittier versions of Marvel characters. It also will be the first-time readers will see certain parts of Alien lore in the Marvel Universe — like the home of the Engineers. In this unmissable series, Xenomorphs reach <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html">Earth</a>, and the perfect organism meets a planet of superhumans. But who will be first to fall?"</p><p>"Probably one of the coolest things about the project is how we've found really fun ways to 'Avengerize' 'Aliens' and 'alien-up' Avengers,'" Hickman told <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://ew.com/aliens-vs-avengers-marvel-comic-jonthan-hickman-preview-8635180" target="_blank">Entertainment Weekly</a>. "I think fans will be surprised at how elegantly some of those things fit together. It really turned out to be a chocolate-and-peanut-butter situation."</p><p>Positioned to get audiences pumped for the August launch of director Fede Álvarez's '<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-romulus-film-first-teaser">Alien: Romulus</a>," Marvel Comics' "Aliens vs. Avengers #1" hatches July 24, 2024.</p><p>"Hickman and Ribić are storytelling masters, and they bring a cinematic quality to this that seamlessly merges the high action and soap opera that Marvel fans expect with the deep terror and cosmic awe that the Alien universe so inspires," added Marvel editor Sarah Brunstad. "Watching them cut loose across the entire lexicon of these two great franchises is jaw-dropping. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK — get ready."</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/marvel-comics-aliens-vs-avengers-preview</link> <description> <![CDATA[ A preview of Marvel Comics' "Aliens vs. Avengers" limited series, which is coming this summer. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">NCnAUdunK2WZgHRxy4nrd3</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/j2ubPGxtM4pBcKvokEsvRF.png" type="image/png" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ stingrayghost@gmail.com (Jeff Spry) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/j2ubPGxtM4pBcKvokEsvRF.png"> <media:credit><![CDATA[Marvel Comics]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[Three superheroes unite with the spectre of an alien creature in the background]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[Three superheroes unite with the spectre of an alien creature in the background]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ James Webb Space Telescope discovers some early universe galaxies grew up surprisingly fast ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that early universe galaxies must have grown up way faster than expected. Plus, the same team also found that, 10 billion years ago, the cosmos wasn't quite as disordered and chaotic as previously believed.</p><p>The international team, led by researchers from Durham University in the U.K., reached these conclusions by discovering evidence of structures called "<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-behind-bars-star-formation">star bars</a>" forming in galaxies that existed just a few billion years after the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html">Big Bang</a>.</p><p>Star bars are elongated regions of increased star density found at the hearts of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/22382-spiral-galaxy.html">spiral galaxies</a> like the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19915-milky-way-galaxy.html">Milky Way</a> and other disk galaxies. As they form, star bars push gas toward the hearts of their respective galaxies, thereby <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/2962-galactic-birth-control-unknown-factor-prevents-star-formation.html">regulating star birth</a>. The presence of these central bar structures thus indicate that a galaxy has entered a more settled and "mature phase."</p><p><strong>Related:</strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-dwarf-galaxies-cosmic-evolution"><strong> </strong>James Webb Space Telescope finds dwarf galaxies packed enough punch to reshape the entire early universe</a></p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_gwBPUE13_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_gwBPUE13_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><p>"Galaxies in the early universe are maturing much faster than we thought," Zoe Le Conte, team leader and a researcher at Durham University, <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1042021" target="_blank">said in a statement.</a> "This is a real surprise because you would expect the universe at that stage to be very turbulent, with lots of collisions between galaxies and a lot of gas that hasn't yet transformed into stars.</p><p>"However, thanks to the JWST, we are seeing a lot of these bars much earlier in the life of the universe, which means that galaxies were at a more settled stage in their evolution than previously thought. This means we will have to adjust our views on <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/15423-early-galaxies-star-formation.html">early galaxy evolution</a>."</p><h2 id="bar-hopping-for-the-james-webb-space-telescope-2">Bar-hopping for the James Webb Space Telescope</h2><p>This isn't the first time scientists have gone bar-hopping in the early history of the 13.8 billion-year history of the universe. </p><p>The <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/15892-hubble-space-telescope.html">Hubble space telescope</a> witnessed these features as well, but that orbiting eye on the universe could only go as far back as 8 billion to 9 billion years. The increased sensitivity and wavelength range of the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/21925-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst.html">JWST</a>, however, has stretched such observations back at least another 1 billion years. This has revealed bar formation in galaxies that are seen as they were between 8 billion and 11.5 billion years ago. In fact, of 368 disk galaxies the team considered for the study, 20% already had bars. </p><p>That is <em>double</em> the number observed by Hubble. </p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:650px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:100.00%;"><img id="4ysgtPdWeAMhPnWz3YP83H" name="milky-way-1-100526-02.jpg" alt="Newly-discovered star-forming regions are concentrated at the end of the Milky Way's central bar and in the spiral arms." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4ysgtPdWeAMhPnWz3YP83H.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="650" height="650" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">A diagram of the Milky Way with is dense central bar visible in yellow. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech))</span></figcaption></figure><p>"We find that many more bars were present in the early universe than previously found in Hubble studies, implying that bar-driven galaxy evolution has been happening for much longer than previously thought," team member and Durham University scientist Dimitri Gadotti said. "The fact that there are a lot more bars is what’s very exciting."</p><p>The further back in time the team looked with the JWST, the fewer bar structures they observed in galaxies. </p><p>They believe this could be because galaxies at earlier stages of the universe were not as well formed. An alternative may be that shorter bars were more common in progressively earlier galaxies. Even the impressive <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-observing-strategy">observational power of the JWST</a> isn't sufficient to see these short bars in early galaxies.</p><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-supernova-wreckage-neutron-star">James Webb Space Telescope spots neutron star hiding in supernova wreckage</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">—<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-earliest-cosmic-web-strand">James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-earendel-most-distant-star">James Webb Space Telescope glimpses Earendel, the most distant star known in the universe</a></p></div></div><p>With these results in hand, the team now wants to use the JWST to peer even further back into cosmic time, looking back as far as 12.2 billion years ago. This could reveal whether bar growth was common just 1.6 billion years after the Big Bang. </p><p>"The simulations of the universe now need to be scrutinized to see if we get the same results as the observations we’ve made with the JWST," Gadotti concluded. "We have to think outside of what we thought we knew."</p><p>The team's research was published in the journal <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/530/2/1984/7653430?searchresult=1" target="_blank">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.</a></p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-some-early-universe-galaxies-grew-up</link> <description> <![CDATA[ Adolescent galaxies in the early universe had to grow up fast. Luckily, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have shown that, 10 billion years ago, galaxies were less chaotic than believed. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">kdyu9Lr9wJwcGyZNMSqp8c</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GjGFiPEUjMbjejvBtU2x8a.png" type="image/png" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[The Universe]]></category> <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GjGFiPEUjMbjejvBtU2x8a.png"> <media:credit><![CDATA[Zoe Le Conte]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope overlays a diagram of the barred galaxies and both of these are seen on top of a background of space.]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope overlays a diagram of the barred galaxies and both of these are seen on top of a background of space.]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Alien Day 2024: 'Alien' bursts back into theaters today ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Happy Alien Day 2024!</p><p>"<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-day-2023-marvel-comics-reboot">Alien Day</a>" (April 26) has arrived, that annual occasion for all xenomorph acolytes to immerse themselves in the legends and lore of the storied "Alien" franchise that first hatched way back on May 25, 1979 to create one of the most frightening cinematic universes in Hollywood history. </p><p>Officially promoted by 20th Century Fox beginning in 2016, Alien Day gets its name from the designation numerals of the LV-426 planetoid where "Alien's" space truckers discover a nightmarish derelict spaceship housing a horrifying secret. </p><p><strong>Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-movies-in-order">Alien movies in order: chronological and release</a></p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1182px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:125.04%;"><img id="KPvrkaH4Hsd8se3bmGr5xa" name="alien45.jpeg" alt="A movie poster featuring a giant alien egg in black and green" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KPvrkaH4Hsd8se3bmGr5xa.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1182" height="1478" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">Official 45th anniversary "Alien" re-release poster </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: 20th Century Studios)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Now for a limited time starting April 26, in honor of the 45th anniversary of 'Alien,' multiplex audiences can re-experience the sheer terror in a darkened theater once again, surrounded by petrified fellow patrons to witness the crew of the commercial towing vessel Nostromo being stalked by a marauding biomechanical creature with no conscience and concentrated acid for blood.</p><div class="youtube-video" data-nosnippet ><div class="video-aspect-box"><iframe data-lazy-priority="low" data-lazy-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m9_4qmDys4A?start=31" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div><p>Directed by a youthful Ridley Scott from an original screenplay by Dan O’Bannon and Ron Shusett, "Alien's" stellar cast included Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, and Ian Holm. Fans attending these <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.fandango.com/alien-45th-anniversary-re-release-2024-235716/movie-overview">special anniversary screenings</a> will also be treated to an engaging conversation between Ridley Scott and Fede Alvarez, the director/writer of this summer's theatrical release, "Alien: Romulus."</p><p>In other Alien Day news, an upcoming documentary titled "<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://aliens-expanded.com/">Aliens Expanded</a>" seeks to crack open the memories behind the making of James Cameron's 1986 "Alien" sequel and we have an exclusive chat with its director, British filmmaker Ian Nathan.</p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1494px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:69.48%;"><img id="3XzyCweCs8pJr5zp2rsQpR" name="alienexpanded.jpg" alt="Two posters; one shows two characters hugging under a spider-like alien, the other features the text 'alien expanded' on a dark, shadowy background" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3XzyCweCs8pJr5zp2rsQpR.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1494" height="1038" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">Two posters for new documentary, "Aliens Expanded." </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: CreatorVC)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Here's the official description:</p><p>'Join the 'Aliens' cast & crew, including James Cameron (Writer & Director), Michael Biehn (Hicks), Lance Henriksen (Bishop) Mark Rolston (Drake), Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez), William Hope (Gorman) and Carrie Henn (Newt), on a deep dive into this science-fiction classic. Brimming with stories, insight, and wonderful personal detail, this four-hour documentary is the most passionate and sophisticated exploration of 'Aliens' ever made; a love letter to the people who made it and the communities who adore it, reflecting and enhancing the incredible legacy of this beloved epic."</p><p>London-born director Ian Nathan first saw "Aliens" when he was sixteen with his dad, in a hot cinema full to the brim, and he’s still not sure that he’s ever had an equivalent experience. His goal was to create an in-depth exploration of Cameron's iconic film and discover new info and insights along the way with the cast and crew.</p><p>"I was enslaved to that film, gripped like a vice," Nathan tells Space.com. "After the med-lab scene with the facehuggers, right up until the power loader, I had to remind myself to breathe. It was that thrilling. But I have come to understand that so much of that immersion is because James Cameron made me care so much about those characters. Beyond its place as a science fiction great, and a horror great, it is a perfect character piece. And even now, having seen it countless times, if I catch it on the box, I am there to the end, still willing them to survive." </p><div class="youtube-video" data-nosnippet ><div class="video-aspect-box"><iframe data-lazy-priority="low" data-lazy-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1mS9j8aB2Fc" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-movies-ranked-worst-to-best">Alien movies, ranked worst to best</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/everything-we-know-about-alien-romulus">Everything we know about 'Alien: Romulus'</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/alien-black-white-blood-marvel-comics">Xenomorphs strike terror in deep space in Marvel Comics' 'Alien: Black, White & Blood'</a></p></div></div><p>Having Cameron on board to share never-heard tales of his trials, tribulations, and purity of vision in making "Aliens" was a true masterclass in filmmaking for Nathan. When asked to recall his favorite scene in the 1986 classic, he's quick to respond.</p><p>"This is easy. I've known it since the night I first saw the film," he explains. "It's the crucial scene in the film, because this is when Ripley takes charge. Not because she wants to, but because she has to. She is a born leader. The marine incursion into the nest has gone to hell, chaos reigns, and Gorman is cracking up. Ripley is screaming at him. 'Do something!' Then she throws off her headset, secures Newt, and takes control of the APC. The drums kick in on the soundtrack and she rams that thing into the nest to rescue whichever survivors she can. It's Ripley's mission now." </p><p>Fans can order "Aliens Expanded" by May 5 to get their name placed in the credits and score exclusive merchandise, with an expected June digital delivery date and physical copies coming in July.</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/alien-day-2024-return-to-theaters</link> <description> <![CDATA[ A preview of Alien Day 2024 with the theatrical return of "Alien" and a peek at new "Aliens Expanded" documentary. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">oGjAUurGCbjc6JMLJ79dDP</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/47Xnwrs3xujbQCiq3uPoKZ.png" type="image/png" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Space Movies & Shows]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ stingrayghost@gmail.com (Jeff Spry) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/47Xnwrs3xujbQCiq3uPoKZ.png"> <media:credit><![CDATA[20th Century Studios]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[A large alien egg with green light seeping from its cracks]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[A large alien egg with green light seeping from its cracks]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Satellite images overlay 2024 and 2017 total solar eclipses sweeping across US ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>North America has experienced two transcontinental total solar eclipses within the last seven years, and these satellite images compare the crisscrossing paths of totality. </p><p>In 2017, a total <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/15584-solar-eclipses.html"><u>solar eclipse</u></a> moved from northwest regions to southeast areas, sweeping from Oregon to South Carolina and casting a shadow across 14 U.S. states coast-to-coast for the first time in 99 years. Then, just about two weeks ago, on April 8, 2024, another total solar eclipse traveled from the Pacific to the Atlantic, but this time moved southwest to northeast.</p><p>Incredibly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) GOES-16 <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/24839-satellites.html"><u>satellite</u></a> tracked both total solar eclipses from space, documenting the location of the moon's shadow cast upon Earth in 5- to 10-minute intervals. Recent composite images compare the two solar eclipses and their nearly opposite paths of totality — the brief period of time during which <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html"><u>the moon</u></a> completely covers the face of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html"><u>the sun</u></a> — that swept across North America. </p><p><strong>Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/best-total-solar-eclipse-2024-photos"><u>14 of the best total solar eclipse 2024 photos from our readers</u></a></p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_lQkcn3ge_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_lQkcn3ge_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><p>"The size of the moon's shadow on the Earth during the total solar eclipses were very different between 2017 and 2024," officials said in <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/58552" target="_blank"><u>a statement</u></a>.</p><p>The images comprise multiple snapshots of the moon's shadow as fell across different locations along the path of totality. An overlay of images taken during the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/how-total-solar-eclipse-2024-will-differ-from-2017-solar-eclips"><u>two solar eclipses</u></a> really emphasizes how the paths of totality differed. Satellite imagery was also used to create videos of each solar eclipse, along with a slider image that allows viewers to toggle between composite photos and compare differences observed in the size, duration and darkness of the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/17561-new-moon-explained-lunar-phases.html"><u>moon's shadow</u></a> between each respective eclipse. </p><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">Related Stories:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/33784-solar-eclipse-guide.html">When is the next solar eclipse?</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/2024-solar-eclipse-apology-letter-totality-was-excellent">My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/total-solar-eclipse-2024-teachable-moment-suny-potsdam-university">The 2024 solar eclipse was a teachable moment in more ways than one</a></p></div></div><p>The total solar eclipse in 2017 was visible from within a narrow corridor across Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. By comparison, the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/41552-total-solar-eclipse-2024-guide.html"><u>April 8 total solar eclipse</u></a> stretched across Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, culminating in southeastern Canada. </p><p>There were other notable differences, too, including the maximum length of totality, which lasted about 2 minutes and 40 seconds in 2017, but up to 4 minutes 28 seconds in 2024. The width of the path of totality was also vastly different between the two solar eclipses, spanning only 70 miles (113 kilometers) in 2017 compared to a whopping 115 miles (185 km) in 2024. The latter is due to the sun approaching <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/sun-surface-solar-maximum-approaches-photo"><u>solar maximum</u></a> later this year. </p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/satellite-images-total-solar-eclipse-2024-2017</link> <description> <![CDATA[ Satellite images capture striking differences between the 2017 and 2024 total solar eclipses that swept across North America, including variations in the moon's shadow along the path of totality. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">R2bKK4CR9SXhWPb6ZyWM5k</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ySEuxKHnFC5oTNwgES8NE7.png" type="image/png" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Eclipses]]></category> <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ySEuxKHnFC5oTNwgES8NE7.png"> <media:credit><![CDATA[NOAA]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[A satellite image of the US in black and white with the moon's shadow paths making a cross.]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[A satellite image of the US in black and white with the moon's shadow paths making a cross.]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is 'go' for May 6 astronaut launch ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Boeing's new spaceship has been cleared for its first-ever crewed liftoff.</p><p>Over the past two days, NASA and <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-boeing-company">Boeing</a> held a flight readiness review (FRR) for the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, which will send agency astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to and from the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html">International Space Station</a> (ISS) aboard Boeing's <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19367-boeing-cst-100.html">Starliner</a> capsule.</p><p>The FRR found no serious issues, meaning CFT is go for launch on May 6 as previously planned, NASA announced today (April 25).</p><p>"I can say with confidence that the teams have absolutely done their due diligence," NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free said during a call with reporters this afternoon. "There's still a little bit of closeout work to do, but we are on track for launch at 10:34 [p.m.] Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, May 6."</p><p><strong>Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19367-boeing-cst-100.html">Facts about<strong> </strong>Starliner, Boeing's next-generation spaceship for astronauts</a></p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_KCfo5TgU_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_KCfo5TgU_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><p>Starliner will lift off atop a United Launch Alliance <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/40250-atlas-v-rocket.html">Atlas V</a> rocket from Florida's <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/33926-cape-canaveral.html">Cape Canaveral Space Force Station</a>, sending Starliner — and Williams and Wilmore — to the ISS for a roughly 10-day stay. </p><p>It will be the first-ever crewed launch on an Atlas V, and the first astronaut mission for a rocket in the Atlas family since the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/24638-project-mercury.html">Mercury program</a> in the early 1960s. </p><p>Starliner doesn't have any crewed flights under its belt, either, but the capsule has flown twice before. The spacecraft first <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-orbital-flight-test-photos.html">launched in December 2019</a>, on an uncrewed test mission to the ISS. Things didn't go well, however; Starliner suffered a series of problems shortly after liftoff, which caused it to get stranded in an orbit too low for a rendezvous with the station. Starliner succeeded on its second attempt at an uncrewed ISS mission, meeting up with the orbiting lab in <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-orbital-flight-test-2-photos">May 2022</a>, but the road to the pad for its first astronaut flight has been bumpy.</p><p>NASA and Boeing had planned to launch CFT in July 2023, but engineers discovered <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-nasa-astronaut-launch-delayed-indefinitely">several issues with Starliner</a> in the leadup to liftoff — a problem with the suspension lines on Starliner's main parachutes, for example, and the fact that much of the capsule's wiring was wrapped in flammable tape.</p><p>Addressing those problems and testing the fixes <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-on-track-launch-april-2024">pushed CFT's launch date to mid-April</a>. Relatively heavy traffic at the ISS <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-cft-astronaut-launch-delay-may-6">caused a further slip</a>, bringing Starliner to its current launch target of May 6.</p><p>The launch teams are still working a couple of issues at the moment, according to Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). They're replacing a valve at the launch pad, for example, and analyzing contingency scenarios for the jettisoning of Starliner's forward heat shield during reentry to <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/17683-earth-atmosphere.html">Earth's atmosphere</a>. </p><p>However, neither issue is expected to cause another delay, Stich said during today's media call.</p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_6jQU6ocq_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_6jQU6ocq_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test-flight-review-may-2023">Boeing faces 'emerging issues' ahead of Starliner capsule's 1st crewed flight, NASA says</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-spacecraft-delay-april-2024">Boeing's 1st Starliner flight with astronauts delayed to April 2024</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html">International Space Station — Everything you need to know</a></p></div></div><p>Starliner won't be the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to the ISS, of course; SpaceX's <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/18852-spacex-dragon.html">Dragon</a> capsule has done so a dozen times to date. </p><p>Eight of those crewed <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/18853-spacex.html">SpaceX</a> ISS missions have been operational flights conducted via the CCP. Boeing and SpaceX both signed multibillion-dollar CCP deals back in September 2014 to get their private astronaut taxis up running.</p><p>SpaceX launched its version of CFT, the Demo-2 test flight to the ISS, on May 30, 2020. <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-test-flight-explained.html">Demo-2</a> sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurly to the orbiting lab for about two months; the duo returned to Earth on Aug. 2, 2020. </p><p>Getting a second U.S. astronaut taxi up and running is a big deal for NASA and the nation, agency officials said.</p><p>"Having redundant crew vehicle capability from the U.S. to transport our crew to ISS is really important and helps us with any number of different contingency scenarios that we can encounter, whether that's launching crew on board to keep us continually crewed or issues we could face on board with other spacecraft that require redundant capability for crew rescue purposes," Dana Weigel, manager of NASA's International Space Station Program, said during today's teleconference.</p><p>SpaceX also flies robotic resupply missions to the ISS with the cargo version of Dragon, under a separate NASA deal. <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/18849-elon-musk.html">Elon Musk</a>'s company is currently preparing to wrap up its 30th such flight; the latest Dragon cargo capsule is set to return from the ISS on Sunday (April 28). </p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-cleared-launch-crew-flight-test</link> <description> <![CDATA[ Boeing's Starliner capsule has been cleared for its first-ever crewed launch, a test flight scheduled to send two astronauts toward the International Space Station on May 6. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">YeNvbgajDBg454GcUoHNs6</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cWifFA8XZovvQUjFq33fHe.jpeg" type="image/jpeg" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Human Spaceflight]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cWifFA8XZovvQUjFq33fHe.jpeg"> <media:credit><![CDATA[Boeing/John Grant]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[a silver and white space capsule sits inside a huge white-walled room with an american flag in the background.]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[a silver and white space capsule sits inside a huge white-walled room with an american flag in the background.]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Russian cosmonauts make quick work of space station spacewalk ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Two Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk at the International Space Station, wrapping up all of their tasks with time to spare, including the deployment of a radar that they began last year.</p><p>Expedition 71 crewmates <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-oleg-kononenko-breaks-record-time-in-space">Oleg Kononenko</a> and Nikolai Chub successfully unfolded and latched the fourth of four panels for a synthetic radar communications system on the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module (MLM) at 11:44 a.m. EDT (1544 GMT) on Thursday (April 25), 47 minutes after the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/spacewalk-history.html">spacewalk</a> began. </p><p>"I will try first manually," said Chub, who used his gloved hand to push open the bulky, orange fabric-covered panel. "Latches are closed."</p><p><strong>Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html">International Space Station — Everything you need to know</a></p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="eo9hRK4KYk4C9kiXsM9coL" name="eva2.jpg" alt="closeup of a cosmonaut's white glove holding an orange object during a spacewalk" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eo9hRK4KYk4C9kiXsM9coL.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">In a view from his helmet-mounted camera, Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub uses his hands to manually deploy a bulky radar system panel during a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on April 25, 2024. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: NASA TV)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The work was quick but necessary to bring the radar system online. The fourth panel failed to automatically unfold when Kononenko and Chub first installed the unit during their previous spacewalk together <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/russian-spacewalk-nauka-radiator-leak-october-2023">on Oct. 25, 2023</a>.</p><p>The radar will be used to monitor Earth's environment. It was the first science payload to be mounted on Nauka after the module's <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/nauka-module-thruster-fire-tilts-space-station">addition to the space station</a> in July 2021.</p><p>With that fix done, Kononenko and Chub moved onto other tasks outside the Russian segment of the orbiting laboratory. The two spacewalkers rotated the direction of a plume impingement unit used to measure the output of gases from the space station's thrusters, swabbed the nearby surfaces for later analysis and returned inside with a biological exposure experiment that will also undergo further study.</p><p>Kononenko and Chub also moved and installed a stowage platform for hardware adapters on the Poisk mini-research module that will support spacewalk activities, including the installation of two devices to measure corrosion on the station's exterior, which the two cosmonauts completed as their last task of the day.</p><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="QV5es4khKcXMbtTyV8jCCG" name="eva3.jpg" alt="a cosmonaut in a white spacesuit during a spacewalk, as seen through a metallic circular part of the international space station" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QV5es4khKcXMbtTyV8jCCG.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">In a view from cosmonaut Nikolai Chub's helmet-mounted camera, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko peers inside the Poisk airlock during a spacewalk at the International Space Station on April 25, 2024. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: NASA TV)</span></figcaption></figure><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/russian-spacewalk-nauka-radiator-leak-october-2023">Cosmonauts on ISS spacewalk encounter coolant 'blob' while inspecting leaky radiator</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/spacewalk-history.html">Spacewalks: How they work and major milestones</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/international-space-station-astronauts-nauka-ammonia-leak-no-danger">International Space Station leaks coolant into space, but astronauts are not in danger</a></p></div></div><p>Kononenko and Chub reentered and closed the hatch to the airlock on the Poisk module at 3:33 p.m. EDT (1933 GMT), marking an official end to their spacewalk after 4 hours and 36 minutes. The excursion had been planned to take upwards of seven hours, but the cosmonauts made quick work of all their activities, running about two hours ahead of schedule.</p><p>"The EVA was shorter than we expected, but what can you do?" radioed one of the cosmonauts.</p><p>The spacewalk was the 270th in support of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/16748-international-space-station.html">International Space Station</a> assembly, maintenance, and upgrades, totaling 71 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes. It was the seventh outing for Kononenko, who has now logged 44 hours and 30 minutes on extravehicular activities (EVAs) spanning three decades. </p><p>Chub completed his second spacewalk, having now spent 12 hours and 17 minutes outside of the International Space Station.</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/russian-spacewalk-radar-deploy-april-2024</link> <description> <![CDATA[ Two Russian cosmonauts completed a spacewalk at the International Space Station on April 25, wrapping up all of their tasks with time to spare, including the deployment of a radar that they began last year. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">py32SZcyjz9w936TiABUqT</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2gvkpSxqxTQDHzHvpaxbuk.jpg" type="image/jpeg" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:30:07 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[International Space Station]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2gvkpSxqxTQDHzHvpaxbuk.jpg"> <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA TV]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[two cosmonauts in white spacesuits work outside the international space station]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[two cosmonauts in white spacesuits work outside the international space station]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Curiosity rover may be 'burping' methane out of Mars' subsurface ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Since 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. </p><p>But that <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/mars-plane-maggie-methane-mystery"><u>Mars methane</u></a> is behaving erratically. It only appears at night, it fluctuates seasonally and it spikes unexpectedly to levels 40 times higher than usual. To make things more puzzling, the gas isn't present in appreciable amounts high in the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/16903-mars-atmosphere-climate-weather.html"><u>Martian atmosphere</u></a>, and it hasn't been detected near the surface in other Red Planet locales. So what's going on at Gale Crater?</p><p>A group of NASA researchers led by planetary scientist Alexander Pavlov may now have at least a partial answer. The team suggests the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html"><u>Mars</u></a> methane is trapped beneath a crust of solidified salt within the regolith at Gale. Warm daytime temperatures could weaken the crust, allowing methane to slip out at night. And the weight of a heavy rover driving over the crust could crack the crust, too, allowing methane to burst out in a concentrated puff. (Yes, it's akin to burping a baby.)</p><p><strong>Related:</strong> <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/17963-mars-curiosity.html"><u>NASA's Mars rover Curiosity: The ultimate guide</u></a></p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_u2vmgUI8_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_u2vmgUI8_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><p>The researchers tested their hypothesis here on <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html"><u>Earth</u></a>, using a simulated Martian regolith; a salt called perchlorate, which exists widely on Mars; and neon as an analog for methane. Their tests, performed inside a Mars simulation chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, showed that a salt crust could form under certain conditions, trapping methane beneath it.</p><p>While a layer of solidified salt might explain the irregular behavior of Martian methane, scientists still don't know why methane even exists on Mars in the first place. On Earth, methane is primarily produced by living organisms — but we still haven't found signs of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/17135-life-on-mars.html"><u>life on Mars</u></a>. </p><p>And, to be clear, methane is not a surefire sign of life; the gas can be produced by geological processes as well.</p><div class='jwplayer__widthsetter'><div class='jwplayer__wrapper'><div id='futr_botr_QEpdwf1y_bQHItauA_div' class='future__jwplayer'><div id='botr_QEpdwf1y_bQHItauA_div'></div></div></div></div><div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">RELATED STORIES:</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/mars-plane-maggie-methane-mystery">Future Mars plane could help solve Red Planet methane mystery</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/curiosity-mars-rover-tgo-methane-mystery">Mars methane mystery may be starting to clear up</a></p><p class="fancy-box__body-text">— <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/future-astronauts-methane-rocket-fuel-mars">Future astronauts could make methane rocket fuel on Mars</a></p></div></div><p>"It’s a story with a lot of plot twists," Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/why-is-methane-seeping-on-mars-nasa-scientists-have-new-ideas/" target="_blank"><u>statement</u></a>. "Some of the methane work will have to be left to future surface spacecraft that are more focused on answering these specific questions."</p><p>A paper on the team's research was <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007841" target="_blank"><u>published on March 9, 2024</u></a>, in the Journal of Geophysical Research.</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/mars-methane-mystery-salt-crust-curiosity-rover</link> <description> <![CDATA[ A new theory suggests that NASA's Curiosity rover is "burping" the surface of the Red Planet, releasing methane trapped beneath a salty crust. ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">TooQAhDbUHatxoihPQm5JE</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ByTi42ffHtMS5fH9Y9hA9Y.png" type="image/png" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category> <media:content type="image/png" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ByTi42ffHtMS5fH9Y9hA9Y.png"> <media:credit><![CDATA[NASA/JPL-Caltech]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[image of a large whitish rover on the surface of mars, surrounded by rocks and red dirt.]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[image of a large whitish rover on the surface of mars, surrounded by rocks and red dirt.]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[ Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates ]]></title> <dc:content><![CDATA[ <p>Boeing will launch its first-ever <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19367-boeing-cst-100.html">Starliner</a> astronaut mission for NASA as early as May 6, 2024 on a critical test flight to show its commercial space capsule is ready to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station. </p><p>The so-called Starliner Crew Flight Test will launch on a weeklong mission to the ISS from Space Launch Complex 41 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 6. Liftoff is set for 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 May 7 GMT), with landing set for a week later in the southwestern U.S. Follow our live updates of the <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-boeing-company">Boeing</a> Crew Flight Test mission here from launch to landing!</p><p><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19367-boeing-cst-100.html"><strong>All about Boeing Starliner</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-boeing-company"><strong>Boeing</strong></a><strong> | </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/tag/boeing"><strong>Latest Boeing news</strong></a></p><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-starliner-astronauts-arrive-at-launch-site"><span>Starliner astronauts arrive at launch site</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1024px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="23DYDk36K5UYCjXhw2fHXX" name="1714071012.jpg" alt="Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams, both of NASA, arrive at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida April 25 in a T-38 jet ahead of their launch." src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/23DYDk36K5UYCjXhw2fHXX.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="1" width="1024" height="576" attribution="" endorsement="" class="expandable"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="caption-text">Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams, both of NASA, arrive at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida April 25 in a T-38 jet ahead of their launch. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: NASA)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The two NASA astronauts who will fly on Boeing's first crewed <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/19367-boeing-cst-100.html">Starliner spacecraft</a> have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for their historic launch to the International Space Station on May 6. </p><p><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/the-boeing-company">Boeing</a> Starliner Crew Flight Test commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Sunita Williams <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-nasa-astronaut-arrival-launch-site-webcast">landed their NASA T-38 supersonic jet</a> at the space center's Launch and Landing Facility after a short flight from Houston's Ellington Field near the Johnson Space Center. </p><p>The astronauts will launch to the ISS on Boeing's Starliner and an <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/40250-atlas-v-rocket.html">Atlas V rocket</a> from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station near KSC. Their one-week mission to the ISS is a final shakedown cruise for Boeing's Starliner to prove it is ready for operational NASA crew flights. At the end of the mission, Starliner will parachute to Earth and make a land-based landing in the southwestern United States.</p> ]]></dc:content> <link>https://www.space.com/news/live/boeing-starliner-live-updates</link> <description> <![CDATA[ Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as May 6, 2024 ]]> </description> <guid isPermaLink="false">ABkEPNGtCJpWDDSqhwSHCi</guid> <enclosure url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NjbYZHD5MvN9kVBEmMnRYc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" length="0"></enclosure> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:07:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Launches & Spacecraft]]></category> <author><![CDATA[ elizabeth.howell@futurenet.com (Elizabeth Howell) ]]></author> <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NjbYZHD5MvN9kVBEmMnRYc.jpg"> <media:credit><![CDATA[ULA]]></media:credit> <media:text><![CDATA[A Boeing Starliner is stacked atop its Atlas V rocket ahead of its first astronaut flight for NASA at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.]]></media:text> <media:title type="plain"><![CDATA[A Boeing Starliner is stacked atop its Atlas V rocket ahead of its first astronaut flight for NASA at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.]]></media:title> </media:content> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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