Brooks Mendenhall, Author at Astronomy.com

Human Spaceflight

ISS crew back to normal after emergency shelter order

An artist's illustration of two astronauts in white spacesuits working on the gray lunar surface beside a large cylindrical mobile habitat on wheels, with a smaller open surface vehicle to the right and equipment cases scattered between them, set against a black sky.

Human Spaceflight

How NASA plans to build a Moon Base

What's Launching This Week

SpaceX, China set for busy launch week

What's Launching This Week

SMILE to give Earth’s magnetosphere its first X-ray

A dense cluster of silver and gray spacecraft components, rocket parts, and satellite fragments floats against a black starfield, packed tightly on the left side of the frame and thinning into scattered individual pieces toward the right. The objects range from large cylindrical rocket stages and solar panel arrays to small bolts and twisted metal fragments.

Solar activity determines how fast space junk falls to Earth

What's Launching This Week

SpaceX’s most powerful Starship yet is cleared for launch

3I/ATLAS came from a strange, cold world

What's Launching This Week

SpaceX keeps the pace, China sends cargo to its space station

Human Spaceflight

As it happened: Artemis 2 splashes down, ‘a perfect mission’

Human Spaceflight

How to watch the Artemis 2 splashdown

Human Spaceflight

Decades after Apollo 8, Jim Lovell’s voice returns to the Moon

Human Spaceflight

Artemis 2’s lunar flyby in images