astronautics

FOOTBALL: Gary Haven of Lewis Run was reminiscing with friends Friday about Bradford’s last undefeated season and realized it has been 50 years this y...

ASTRONAUTS: Students in Georgia and California will each have an opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station....

Climate change: NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have formed a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership to observe Earth and its changing environme...

NASA SPACECRAFT: NASA’s first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids arrived July 30 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It is ...

Rarely has stunning human achievement been greeted with as much churlishness as when Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos managed to fly or launch themselve...

TODAY : Have you ever heard of Annie Easley? How about Dr. Mae Jemison? Bessie Coleman? These women were pioneers in more ways than one. Learn about t...

It’s hard to imagine that a flight lasting a mere 39 seconds could represent monumental scientific achievement, but that was the reaction — and celebr...

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: Today, NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, in...

GO BILLS!: Eric Jones, sculptor and caricature artist, told Era staff in October his favorite medium is snow. Jones used his talents to create an eigh...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took wing on Nov. 15 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching the Crew Dragon capsule into the annals of history. ...

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ANNIVERSARY: Today marks 20 years that humans have lived and worked continuously on the space station to test technologies...

PACKING FOR THE MOON: While advancing its Artemis program – which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 – NASA wa...

Let’s get out of here. Who hasn’t thought that at some point in the past four months, as we hunkered down in our homes, brooding and restless but with...

ROVER LAUNCH: NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities and events ahead of the launch of the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rov...

SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGE: The annual celebration of the June solstice at the Stonehenge monument is canceled this year due to Covid-19. But for the 1st ...

NEW SPACE TELESCOPE: NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)...

HACKERS INVITED BY NASA: NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientist...

Space: NASA’s new Internet and social media special, NASA at Home, will show and engage you in the agency’s discoveries, research, and exploration fro...

ASTRONAUTS: Looking for adventure? NASA is now accepting applications for future astronauts for the first time in four years. This round of explorers ...

Smethport native Bart Barton, who previously worked on the Apollo 11 launch with his father, Bill Barton, captured quite a shot to add to his collecti...