A video still of the mission control room monitor at the Johnson Space Center showed the location of Columbia when NASA lots contact with the incoming orbiter.
Not all tech needs to be a distraction.
Katalyst's Link spacecraft is tumbling in orbit, which is a troubling sign for a rescue mission.
The heat could be rising from cooling lava flows beneath a layer of solidified crust.
The retired space shuttle will look launch-ready at its new home in California.
The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.
The tool isn't a one-step solution to the complex task of mission planning, but it will be a useful in evaluating the best trajectory for each mission, the researchers say.
