Japanese company aims to put first private lander on Moon, with UAE rover on board
SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private—and Japanese—lander to the Moon.
SpaceX is set Wednesday to launch the first private—and Japanese—lander to the Moon.
Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2022
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A look at history often provides some context for the present and might even inform the future, so it's not surprising two Penn State faculty members' review of Cold War-era print and television advertisements about flying ...
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2022
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It's not just rocket fuel propelling America's first moonshot after a half-century lull. Strategic rivalry with China's ambitious space program is helping drive NASA's effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both ...
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2022
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The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an "Earthrise" and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, will be auctioned off in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Mar 8, 2022
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A federal agency on Monday granted a license for a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets from coastal Georgia.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2021
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With many countries, companies and individuals intensifying their space exploration programs, questions about rights, ownership and the feasibility of manned space missions are coming to the fore of public debate.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2021
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As the new space race continues, a team of top researchers says one thing needs to be cleared up—what exactly is a planet?
Astronomy
Dec 8, 2021
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Last year a US general made an ominous revelation: two Russian satellites in orbit were stalking a US spy satellite high above the earth.
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2021
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When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it represented humanity's first significant foray into the cosmos. Our imagination was opened to the wonder and lure of space for human endeavor as science fiction suddenly ...
Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2021
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Six decades after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, earning Moscow a key win in the Cold War, Russia is again in a space race with Washington.
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2021
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