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Space for rent: The Cosmosphere, home to the Apollo 13 command module, is launching a space artifact rental service with an exhibit timed to the Apollo 13 50th anniversary. The museum's SpaceWorks built the "Apollo 13: A Mission of Survival" traveling exhibit to feature an 8-foot-tall photo op with the Odyssey spacecraft and both real and replica displays pulling from the Cosmosphere's collection.
Perseverance: NASA's next Mars rover now has a new name: Perseverance. Chosen out of 28,000 contest entries, NASA selected the name entered by seventh grade student Alex Mather to represent the six-wheeled science platform targeted to land on Mars in February 2021. Mather proposed Perseverance to complement the names of prior Mars rovers, including Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity.
Fly your flag, or tag: The Space Collective, a UK-based space collectibles company, has announced an opportunity to fly personalized name tags and small country, state or NASA flags to the International Space Station. The cloth mementos will be packed along with science samples and mounted outside the orbital outpost for half a year prior to their return to Earth and delivery to their buyers.
Space stamps: The Isle of Man has worked with veteran NASA director George Abbey to create a new set of postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. The "One Giant Leap, Exploring the Moon and Space" stamps depict photos from the Apollo 13 control room and the four lunar landing missions that came after "NASA's finest hour." The eight stamps also celebrate Skylab, the space shuttle and International Space Station.
Chasing Gemini: Space Adventures is now offering the chance for a crew of up to four to see Earth from an orbital height not achieved since NASA's 1966 Gemini 11 mission, while also becoming the first private passengers to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Targeted for late-2021 to mid-2022, the free-flying mission will circle Earth at an altitude two to three times higher than the space station.
Home from space: Christina Koch started to "draw back her footprint" on the International Space Station about a month before she left for Earth on Feb. 6. After spending a record-setting 328 days in orbit, she had squirreled away some favorite food items and friends' keepsakes, the latter she packed to bring home. On Wednesday (Feb. 12), Koch spoke to the press about moving from space to Earth.
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Last of the first Dragons: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched late Friday night (March 6) with the last, first-generation Dragon capsule to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. The mission marked the 20th and final flight under SpaceX's CRS (Commercial Resupply Services) 1 contract with NASA. A new contract will use the cargo-configured version of SpaceX's Crew Dragon.
Smithsonian Open Access: The thousands of digital photographs that depict the artifacts held by the National Air and Space Museum are now yours to remix, reuse and repost, for personal or commercial projects. The Air and Space Museum content, including a 3D model of the space shuttle Discovery, has now been added to the Smithsonian Open Access initiative, which is releasing millions of image and data assets from their prior copyright restrictions.
'Black in Space': At the same time that the U.S. was striving to win a space race against its Cold War foe, the Soviet Union, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the country was also responding to the civil rights movement. The Smithsonian Channel's new documentary, "Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier" looks at the intersection of race and the space race by chronicling the American and Soviet decades-long efforts to launch the first black astronaut.
Cosmonaut crew change: Roscosmos has removed two cosmonauts on the next space station crew after one was reportedly injured. Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner will now fly with NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on board Soyuz MS-16 in April, replacing Andrei Babkin and Nikolai Tikhonov. The mission would have been the first launch for Tikhonov and Babkin after both experienced prior delays.
District of 'Columbia': Twenty-eight months after it debuted in Houston, the first of its five cities, the "Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission" traveling exhibition has come to its end in Cincinnati. The tour's centerpiece, the historic command module Columbia, and its accompanying artifacts, are to become part of a new permanent exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum. First, the capsule is going on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center.
Astronauts wanted: NASA will again accept applications for its astronaut corps beginning on March 2. The new recruits, who now must have a master's degree and complete a two-hour online assessment, in addition to earlier requirements, will be considered for NASA's 23rd astronaut candidate class to be selected in mid-2021. The new group will train for flights to the space station and the moon.
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