The team exploring Mars via NASA’s Opportunity rover for the past seven years has informally named a Martian crater for the Mercury spacecraft that astronaut Alan Shepard christened Freedom 7. On May 5, 1961, Shepard piloted Freedom 7 in America’s first human spaceflight. The team is using Opportunity this week… Read more“Mars Tribute Marks Memories of Shepard’s Flight”
Day: May 4, 2011
NASA’s Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories
NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test. The experiment, launched in 2004, used four ultra-precise gyroscopes to measure the hypothesized geodetic effect, the warping of space and time around a gravitational… Read more“NASA’s Gravity Probe B Confirms Two Einstein Space-Time Theories”