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Blue Origin’s lunar lander mockup is ready for NASA simulations
NASA orders Lunar Gateway’s crew cabin from Northrop Grumman
NASA x DoubleTree Cookies in Space: Houston, We Have a Snack
NASA, the International Space Station, and DoubleTree by Hilton made a giant leap for snacking in outer space by challenging engineers, astronauts, and bakers to build and test the first zero-gravity kitchen to cook cookies in space. Hilton’s trademark chocolate chip cookies have become the first food baked in space.
Northrop Grumman launched a resupply spacecraft from the ISS with almost over 3,000 kilograms of scientific investigations and cargo, including the unique zero-gravity oven. Manufactured by NanoRacks, the Zero-G is the first microgravity oven to reach 177ºC, significantly higher than existing ISS ovens which can only reach 82ºC – just enough to heat pre-cooked food.
Because hot air doesn’t rise in space, engineers had to figure out how to place electric heating elements around a cylindrical chamber so a pocket of heated air surrounds the food in a special cookie cooking contraption.
DoubleTree by Hilton, which gives out warm chocolate chip cookies to guests at check-in, provided dough packs for five cookies to be baked in space. Two have been used on board for documentation, with three returning to Earth for NASA testing. So that astronauts won’t go hungry, DoubleTree also sent a tin of baked cookies for a taste of home. Limited-edition DoubleTree Cookies in Space gift tins with six chocolate chip goodies are also available right here on Earth.
Blue Origin teams with spaceflight veterans to complete its lunar lander
Blue Origin won't be alone in working on a crewed lunar lander that will (hopefully) participate in NASA's Artemis program. Jeff Bezos' outfit has unveiled a trio of partners that will help it complete the Human Landing System, all of which are spac...
Northrop’s satellite refueling spacecraft launches on October 9th
Space junk is hard to completely avoid when satellites can only carry so much fuel, but that might not be a problem for much longer. Northrop Grumman and NASA are launching a "first-of-its-kind" refueling vessel, the Mission Extension Vehicle, aboar...
US Navy’s next-gen helicopter drone is ready for service
It took a few years, but the US Navy's beefier Fire Scout helicopter drone is finally ready for action... more or less. The military branch has declared that Northrop Grumman's MQ-8C has reached "initial operational capability," or the minimum state...
SpaceX sues over ‘wrongly awarded’ Air Force rocket contracts
To say that SpaceX was unhappy with losing out on the US Air Force's rocket development contracts would be an understatement. The company has sued the US government under claims that the Air Force "wrongly awarded" contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop...
Who needs runways when you’ve got the Lockheed Fury?
Soldiers on the battlefield could soon have an extra set of eyes watching over them. Lockheed is currently developing a high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle called the Fury. But unlike other HALE platforms like Boeing's Phanto...
Who needs runways when you’ve got the Lockheed Fury?
Soldiers on the battlefield could soon have an extra set of eyes watching over them. Lockheed is currently developing a high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle called the Fury. But unlike other HALE platforms like Boeing's Phanto...