Safe Space Exploration
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KCBS) _ With tourism and other businesses moving closer to the stars, federal officials are looking to create new rules for safe space exploration. Scott Hubbard is a professor of...
View ArticleMountain View’s SETI Institute Suspends Search For Alien Life
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS) – Forget about phoning home. If E.T. ever wants to phone planet Earth, the call may not connect. The SETI Institute in Mountain View has suffered a major setback in the day-to-day...
View ArticleNASA Head Envisions Bright Future For Ames Research Center In Mountain View
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS) – The Ames Research Center will play an important role in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s future, despite sequestration cuts that have impacted some day to day...
View ArticlePayPal Galactic Launches In Anticipation Of Civilian Space Travel
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KCBS/AP)— The commercialization of space may not be moving at light speed, but it’s probably going faster than you think. PayPal, which is eBay Inc.’s payments business, says it is...
View ArticleMars Rover Curiosity Ordered To Drive In Reverse To Spare Damaged Wheels
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — When NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity set off last summer on a six-mile trip to Mount Sharp mission officials thought it might take a year to get there. Now, nearly a year into the...
View ArticleEuropean Space Agency Says Comet Probe Completed Its ‘Primary Mission’
BERLIN (CBS/AP) — The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet’s surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European...
View ArticleCalifornia-Based SpaceX To Attempt A Do-Over Of Failed Rocket Booster Landing
HAWTHORNE (CBS/AP) — The SpaceX company will take a second stab this weekend at landing a rocket booster on a platform floating off the Florida coast. Last month’s experiment ended in a giant fireball....
View ArticleNASA Teases Major ‘Mars Mystery Solved’ To Be Revealed At Press Conference...
WASHINGTON (CBS SF) — In a dramatic posting on its website, NASA officials have announced they will detail “a major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars” at a Monday-morning...
View ArticleTech Investor Partners With Zuckerberg, Hawking To Find Alien Life
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – A Silicon Valley billionaire has joined forces with UC Berkeley’s SETI project, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to launch a 10-year, $100...
View ArticleJuno Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Jupiter, Begins 20-Month Mission
PASADENA (CBS/AP) — Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets. Ground controllers at the NASA Jet...
View ArticleYearlong Mars Simulation On Slopes Of Hawaii Volcano Nears End
HILO, Hawaii (CBS/AP) — Six scientists are close to wrapping up a year of near isolation in a Mars simulation on a Hawaii mountain. The scientists are housed in a dome on Mauna Loa and can go outside...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Musk Plans To Build A San Jose On Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — If SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s plan to establish a city the size of San Jose on Mars sounds like science fiction, then consider the name of his first passenger ship. The...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Launched on Mission to Touch the Sun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its...
View ArticleNASA Names 9 Private Companies in Competition to Build Moon Probes
(KPIX 5) — NASA has a new plan for getting back to the moon and beyond and is teaming up with private industry for the next phase of space travel. The U.S. first landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago...
View ArticleSpacecraft Makes Successful Flyby of Strange Object at Edge of Solar System
LAUREL, Md. (CBS) — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft raced past a frozen remnant of the solar system’s birth early New Year’s Day, phoned home to confirm a successful flyby and began beaming a treasure...
View ArticleSpaceX Crew Capsule With Dummy Aboard Docks With Space Station
CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS News) — SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, built to carry U.S. astronauts to orbit starting later this year, caught up with the International Space Station early Sunday and moved in...
View ArticleSpaceX Confirms Crew Capsule Destroyed In Testing Fire
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has confirmed that its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago. A company vice president told reporters Thursday it’s too soon to know what went...
View ArticlePoll Suggests Americans Care More About Asteroid Threat Than Mission to Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) — Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on...
View ArticleFlat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Ride Above California Desert
BARSTOW (CBS/AP) — Daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes died when his homemade rocket crashed shortly after takeoff near Barstow, California. Hughes was killed Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on...
View ArticleBay Area Scientists Cheer Successful Start of Mars Perserverance Mission
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — NASA made history Thursday when its most advanced Mars rover landed successfully on the red planet to begin a mission to find signs of ancient life. “They’re not looking for...
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