![]() ![]() ![]() Follow him on Twitter Follow us on Twitter or Facebook. Mike Wall is the author of " Out There " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. But problems caused by unplanned thruster firings of Russia's newly arrived Nauka space station module have pushed Starliner's flight into next week. Boeing's Starliner capsule was scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station on a crucial uncrewed test flight this afternoon. There was supposed to be another high-profile liftoff today as well. EDT (2100 GMT), if all goes according to plan. There will be some spaceflight fireworks tonight to help celebrate Perseverance's launch anniversary: Europe's Ariane 5 rocket will launch two communications satellites from French Guiana at 5 p.m. NASA’s latest Mars rover drilled into a flat rock nicknamed Rochette on September 1 and. "While the rocks located in this geologic unit are not great time capsules for organics, we believe they have been around since the formation of Jezero Crater and incredibly valuable to fill gaps in our geologic understanding of this region - things we’ll desperately need to know if we find life once existed on Mars," Farley said. Septemat 1:58 pm The Perseverance rover has captured its first two slices of Mars. "Not every sample Perseverance is collecting will be done in the quest for ancient life, and we don’t expect this first sample to provide definitive proof one way or the other," Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement last week. ![]()
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