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The launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to carry <keyword id="19939779" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="NASA-astronauts" source="keywords">NASA astronauts</keyword> <keyword id="21544825" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sunita-Williams" source="keywords">Sunita Williams</keyword> and Barry Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) was on Monday (local time) postponed after a valve glitch in the upper stage of the rocket set to propel it to space. Rocket company United Launch Alliance's Tom Heter III the director overseeing the launch announced the decision to delay the launch about two hours before the expected lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on part of ULA's Atlas 5 rocket and that the space agency, Boeing and ULA have "scrubbed the launch opportunity on May 6 for the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station due to a faulty oxygen relief valve observation on the Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. The crew and rocket remain safe and more information will be forthcoming." It said that NASA astronauts Wilmore and Williams exited the Starliner spacecraft at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and will return to astronaut crew quarters. This would have marked the first human crewed flight for Starliner with Indian origin Sunita "Suni" Williams piloting the craft with fellow NASA pilot Barry "Butch" Wilmore. Boing had designed Starliner to rival the Dragon capsule of Elon Musk's SpaceX which carried out its crewed flight test in May 2020. SpaceX has handled most of NASA's crew transportation needs since then. However, just two hours before the scheduled launch, a valve glitch in the rocket's upper stage forced mission managers to call off the mission. It was a frustrating setback for Wilmore and Williams, both seasoned astronauts ventured to space on two previous journeys aboard NASA space shuttle and Russian Soyuz missions and had impressive backgrounds in naval aviation. The disappointment was tangible as they unstrapped from their seats, their hopes of soaring into space momentarily grounded, CBS News reported. Incidentally Sunita Williams has named the spacecraft "Calypso" for her love of the ocean and in reference to the ship of famed explorer <keyword id="21556039" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="jacques-cousteau" source="keywords">Jacques Cousteau</keyword>, who sailed across the world on his own ship named bearing the same name. Despite the setback, the seasoned duo maintained their composure, knowing that space travel demands patience and resilience. Clad in their distinctive Boeing pressure suits, Wilmore and Williams awaited news of the next launch window, ready to embark on their celestial journey at the earliest opportunity, as reported by CBS News. The Atlas 5 rocket, renowned for its reliability, stood ready for its milestone 100th flight - to launch Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft. The plan was that following separation from Atlas 5, Starliner engines will burn taking it the rest of the way to orbit and on to the International Space Station, according to ULA. The Atlas 5 had successfully launching scientific spacecraft to Mars on five different occasions, plus research investigations to the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter, the Asteroid Bennu and Pluto The Atlas 5 consists of two major components: a booster and Centaur, its so-called upper stage. Starliner sits on top of Centaur, which in turn rests on the booster. The booster powers everything off the launchpad. During the flight, Centaur is designed to separate from the booster, propelling Starliner into a proper orbit. Then, Starliner separates from Centaur and flies on its own. It has delivered US national security assets into space, launched weather observatories that all Americans depend upon and deployed commercial satellites to connect the world. Williams, selected as an astronaut by NASA in June 1998, has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions and accumulated 50 hours and 40 minutes of cumulative EVA time on seven spacewalks. Williams worked with Roscosmos on its contribution to the space station and with the first Expedition crew. Meanwhile, 61-year-old, Wilmore has logged 178 days in space and has 25 hours and 36 minutes of time on four spacewalks. NASA has been waiting half a decade for Starliner to begin flying crew, and the development of Starliner was beset by years of delays, setbacks and blunders. More broadly, Boeing as a company has suffered years of scandals in its aircraft division that have tarnished the legacy aerospace giant's brand, CNN reported. If successful, the Crew Test Flight could queue up Boeing to begin flying routine trips to the space station on NASA's behalf. Boeing has already planned six manned missions for the platform over the next six years, the projected end of the ISS' operating lifespan. NASA plans to use both SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's Starliner to send up astronauts at least every six months from US soil. Both Boeing and SpaceX were given the responsibility in 2014 by NASA to send commercial crew missions to the ISS. Boeing received over USD 4 billion in US federal funds to develop the Starliner, while SpaceX received about USD 2.6 billion. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>NASA sent a spacecraft flying by the Dinkinesh asteroid.</li><li>The agency discovered that Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system.</li></ul>NASA sent a spacecraft flying by what it initially thought was one asteroid.But the Lucy spacecraft returned images showing that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary asteroid system, meaning there are two asteroids orbiting a common center. In this case, the system features asteroids of different sizes — one much smaller than the other."Dinkinesh really did live up to its name; this is marvelous," Hal Levison, the principal investigator for Lucy who works at the Southwest Research Institute, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-discovers-2nd-asteroid-during-dinkinesh-flyby">said in a press release from NASA</a>. "When Lucy was originally selected for flight, we planned to fly by seven asteroids. With the addition of Dinkinesh, two Trojan moons, and now this satellite, we've turned it up to 11."Lucy flew by the asteroid system at a speed of 10,000 miles per hour, NASA said. The researchers working on the spacecraft had suspected that Dinkinesh might be a binary pair because of the way its brightness changed with time. The images the spacecraft returned confirmed their theory, according to the news release.Lucy's flight was intended to be a test of the spacecraft — and it passed with flying colors."This is an awesome series of images," Tom Kennedy, a guidance and navigation engineer at Lockheed Martin in Colorado, said in the news release. "They indicate that the terminal tracking system worked as intended, even when the universe presented us with a more difficult target than we expected."

NASA sent a spaceship rocketing by an asteroid — and discovered the space rock has a little baby one dancing around it

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <keyword id="12966076" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="asteroid" source="Orion">asteroid</keyword> the size of the Empire State Building is expected to fly past <keyword id="11996554" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="earth" source="Orion">Earth</keyword> next week. </li><li><keyword id="6360409" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nasa" source="Orion">NASA</keyword> has classified the huge <keyword id="11895441" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="space" source="Orion">space</keyword> rock as "potentially hazardous." </li></ul>A massive <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-simulated-asteroid-couldnt-stop-impact-europe-2021-5">asteroid</a> is heading towards Earth.But don't worry, the asteroid won't hit the planet like in the Netflix movie <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dont-look-up-is-one-of-netflix-biggest-movies-ever-2022-1">"Don't Look Up."</a> In fact, it will travel approximately 1.2 million miles away from Earth-- that's over five times <a href="https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/">the distance between the Earth and the moon</a>-- and is expected to pass by on Tuesday.Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), is a little over a half-mile wide, around the size of the Empire State Building, and has been tracked by NASA scientists since it was <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/huge-asteroid-the-size-of-empire-state-building-to-fly-past-earth-heres-how-you-can-track-it/2407754/">discovered by astronomer RH McNaught in 1994</a>. The asteroid is one of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/29/asteroid-december-january-near-earth/8796599002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several large asteroids to pass by Earth in recent weeks</a>. "Near-Earth asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known and has been studied for decades by our planetary defense experts," NASA posted to Twitter on Wednesday. "Rest assured, 1994 PC1 will safely fly past our planet."1994 PC1 is considered "potentially hazardous" by NASA because it crosses Earth's orbit, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/01/13/massive-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-zoom-past-earth/9178074002/">USA TODAY</a>.The asteroid would cause a "complete catastrophe" if it were to hit the Earth because it has more energy than a nuclear blast, Franck Marchis, the Chief Scientific Officer at Unistellar and Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute, explained to USA TODAY. Although 1994 PC1 sounds dangerous, there is no need to be concerned.To <keyword id="6359835" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="watch" source="Orion">watch</keyword> 1994 PC1 pass by Earth, anyone with a backyard telescope of about 6 inches or wider in diameter and an app to help watch the sky should be able to see the asteroid pass at about 43,754 miles per hour, according to <a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-track-the-giant-asteroid-1994-pc1-about-to-pass-by-earth/">CNET</a>.For those without a telescope, <a href="https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids/watch/7482_1994_pc1">NASA's Eyes website</a> will also offer a visual and a count down to help <keyword id="12215762" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="track" source="Orion">track</keyword> the passing of the asteroid. The <a href="https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/webtv/">Virtual Telescope Project</a> will also offer a live stream of the asteroid passing by.1994 PC1 orbits the sun every 1.5 years, according to <a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=7482">NASA</a>. The asteroid won't come this close to Earth again until 2105.

A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is about to pass Earth. Here's how to track it.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-hubble-portraits-jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-changing-weather-colors-2021-11">NASA</a> launched a spacecraft early Wednesday on a journey to slam into a stadium-size <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/asteroid-hit-ancient-middle-eastern-city-inspired-sodom-bible-story-2021-9">asteroid</a>.</li><li>The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-nasa-launch-asteroid-crashing-spacecraft-dart-2021-11">Double Asteroid Redirection Test</a> seeks to nudge the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-asteroid-simulation-reveals-need-years-of-warning-2021-5">space rock</a> into a new orbit.</li></ul>A <keyword id="11908743" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="spacex" source="Orion">SpaceX</keyword> <keyword id="12067647" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="falcon-9" source="Orion">Falcon 9</keyword> rocket roared to life and soared through the dark California skies early Wednesday, carrying a small probe that could teach <keyword id="6360409" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nasa" source="Orion">NASA</keyword> how to save Earth from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-advances-asteroid-tracking-space-telescope-after-years-of-limbo-2021-6">dangerous asteroids</a>.NASA isn't aware of any <keyword id="12253294" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="asteroids" source="Orion">asteroids</keyword> headed for Earth in the next 100 years. But the agency <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-simulated-asteroid-couldnt-stop-impact-europe-2021-5">expects</a> enormous space rocks to approach our planet eventually, and it has a plan to nudge them away. A new spacecraft — a mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test — is testing that plan. Its sole job: to crash head-on into the center of a distant asteroid.The probe, a box that is smaller than a golf cart, lifted off aboard the Falcon 9 at 1:21 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Once the rocket releases it into space, the <keyword id="12574842" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dart" source="Orion">DART</keyword> spacecraft is expected to spend about two hours unfurling its solar panels.<div type="image" title="falcon 9 rocket lifting off at night with dart mission" height="1619" width="2880" msid="87884919" hostid="261"></div>If that goes smoothly, the probe will be hurtling toward a pair of asteroids. One, a moonlet called Dimorphos, orbits the other, Didymos. DART is aiming for the moonlet, which is about as big as a football stadium. It's set to reach its target, 6.8 million miles from Earth, in September 2022."We're going to hit it hard, but we're hitting it with a very small vehicle," Ed Reynolds, the DART project manager at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, said at a press conference Monday. "When we're looking at what does it take to deflect an asteroid away from Earth — given enough time, you can do big things with small vehicles."<div type="image" title="rocket fairing two large halves close around small human-sized dart spacecraft" height="2249" width="1500" msid="87884072" hostid="261"></div>That nudge should be just enough to push Dimorphos closer to Didymos, causing it to orbit the larger asteroid about 10 minutes faster than before — every 11 hours and 45 minutes instead of every 11 hours and 55 minutes.If it succeeds, DART will prove the technology can change the paths of dangerous asteroids. It will also provide NASA with valuable data about how the collision affects the asteroid and how big a probe must be to move its target."I could imagine, for example, that we have a series of such impactors — a small number — that are actually in orbit and ready to go in case a threat occurred," Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator at NASA, said at a prelaunch press conference Monday.<h2>DART's final hour will make or break the mission</h2>NASA isn't tracking every space rock in our neighborhood of the solar system. Astronomers have identified an estimated 40% of nearby asteroids that are 140 meters wide or larger — those big enough to level a city. Dimorphos, at 160 meters, is a perfect model of such a city killer.<div type="image" title="asteroid dimorphos edited next to rome Colosseum showing they are the same size" height="2418" width="2000" msid="87884074" hostid="261"></div>But other than its size and how quickly it orbits Didymos, scientists know little about their target. They can't see it directly with telescopes on Earth, instead gleaning information from changes in Didymos' light as the moonlet passes between the larger asteroid and Earth.NASA won't even know what shape Dimorphos is until DART's camera catches sight of it about an hour before collision.As Dimorphos comes into view, a spacecraft system called SMART Nav is programmed to rapidly calculate the looming asteroid's center. Then the probe's navigation system will fire its thrusters to steer it to the target.During its final approach, DART is programmed to beam a new photo back to Earth every second. A small Italian spacecraft, LICIACube, is set to release itself from DART 10 days before collision, fly alongside the NASA probe, and record the crash.The spacecraft should hit Dimorphos' center at 15,000 mph, or 4 miles a second, transferring its kinetic energy to the asteroid and pushing it closer to Didymos. NASA estimates that the impact will cause an explosion of 22,000 to 220,000 pounds of rock material, which could give the asteroid an even bigger push than DART itself.The European Space Agency plans to launch a follow-up mission, called Hera, to examine Didymos and Dimorphos in 2026. In addition to studying the aftermath of the impact, Hera would map Dimorphos, precisely measure its mass, and examine the crater DART leaves there.<h2>Nudging an asteroid works only if NASA has enough time to reach it</h2><div type="image" title="neocam asteroid hunter spacecraft discovery nasa jpl caltech" height="1476" width="1968" msid="87884075" hostid="261"></div>To use a DART-like mission to divert an Earth-bound boulder, NASA needs about five to 10 years' notice of an asteroid's advance, experts <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-asteroid-simulation-reveals-need-years-of-warning-2021-5">previously told Insider</a>.That's because it takes years to design and build a spacecraft and then months or years to travel to the asteroid. What's more, the probe probably needs to hit an asteroid a year or two before its orbit would intersect with Earth. The slight nudge of a spacecraft impact takes the rock only slightly off course at first. But over time, that change carries it farther away from Earth.To identify hazardous asteroids with enough lead time, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-advances-asteroid-tracking-space-telescope-after-years-of-limbo-2021-6">NASA is building a space telescope</a> called Near-Earth Object Surveyor to monitor large asteroids orbiting the sun near Earth. NASA hopes the telescope will identify 90% of asteroids 140 meters or larger."If we don't find these objects that could be an impact threat to the Earth — a hazard to the Earth — we can't do anything about them," Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary-defense officer, said in the Monday briefing.Aylin Woodward contributed reporting.

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