Cool unmanned space missions NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, slated to launch in the mid-2020s, has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA's first chief astronomer. Cool unmanned space missions Bright swaths of red in the upper atmosphere, known as airglow, can be seen in this image from the International Space Station. Cool unmanned space missions Breakthrough Starshot – This illustration shows light beams from Earth pushing a tiny spacecraft's sail. Cool unmanned space missions Kepler – The Kepler space observatory is the first NASA mission dedicated to finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zones of stars. Cool unmanned space missions NEOWISE – NASA's infrared-wavelength space telescope called NEOWISE may help make us safer.

Source: The Nation January 07, 2021 20:03 UTC