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SpaceX launches its 60th Space Coast mission for the year
SpaceX passed 60 launches for the year from the Space Coast early Thursday with a Falcon 9 mission taking a set of five satellites to space.
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Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts
Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of ...
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Want to walk in space? It might cost you more than money
A tech billionaire has become the first layperson to perform a space walk. Hundreds of miles above Earth, Jared Isaacman took part in an intricate performance of science and engineering that often comes with some serious ...
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Image: Chili flowers bloom in International Space Station
In July 2021, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing chili peppers in the Advanced Plant Habitat, as part of the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment.
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NASA to develop lunar time standard for exploration initiatives
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April. The agency's ...
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Supermoon will soon appear in sky over California—along with partial eclipse: How to watch
Stargazers will be in for a special treat when the next full moon shines over California. A partial lunar eclipse will coincide with a harvest supermoon on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
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Sep 12, 2024
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Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth
A tech billionaire popped out from a SpaceX capsule hundreds of miles above Earth and performed the first private spacewalk Thursday, a high-risk endeavor once reserved for professional astronauts.
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Sep 12, 2024
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Billionaire's spacewalk with SpaceX delayed several hours hundreds of miles above Earth
A billionaire will have to wait a little longer to perform the first private spacewalk after SpaceX delayed Thursday's spacewalk by a few hours.
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Sep 12, 2024
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9 phenomena NASA astronauts will encounter at Moon's south pole
NASA's Artemis campaign will send the first woman and the first person of color to the moon's south polar region, marking humanity's first return to the lunar surface in more than 50 years.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Starship Super Heavy breezes through wind tunnel testing at NASA Ames
NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency's Artemis campaign.
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Sep 11, 2024
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NASA's EZIE mission set for 2025 launch
In 2025, NASA will launch its first mission to image the magnetic fingerprint of intense electrical currents that flow high in our atmosphere when auroras shimmer above Earth's poles.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Space travel: Protection from cosmic radiation with boron nitride nanotube fibers
With the success of the Nuri launch last year and the recent launch of the newly established Korea Aerospace Administration, interest in space has increased, and both the public and private sectors are actively investing ...
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Sep 11, 2024
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A Soyuz craft with 2 Russians and 1 American docks at the International Space Station
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Polaris Dawn project aims to prevent bone loss in space
Dartmouth researchers have a project aboard the Polaris Dawn mission they hope will help address two major health risks of space flight—the breakdown of astronauts' bones in zero-gravity conditions and the resulting danger ...
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Sep 11, 2024
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Antarctic research supports healthy space for astronauts
Astronauts and Australian Antarctic expeditioners are working together to advance human health in space, and on Earth.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Keeping mold out of future space stations
Mold can survive the harshest of environments, so to stop harmful spores from growing on future space stations, a new study suggests a novel way to prevent its spread.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Spacewalking is the new domain of the rich as billionaire attempts first private spacewalk
First came space tourism. Now comes an even bigger thrill for the monied masses: spacewalking.
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Sep 11, 2024
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Amid Boeing's Starliner troubles, WA space industry thrives
It'd be reasonable to think Washington's space economy has a lot riding on Boeing's Starliner, the spacecraft that left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station and headed back to Earth with an empty cabin ...
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Sep 11, 2024
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Voyager 1 team accomplishes tricky thruster swap
Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft's thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands, send engineering data, and ...
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Sep 11, 2024
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew set for historic private spacewalk
After trekking deeper into space than any humans in the last half-century, a pioneering private crew is set to make history Thursday with the first-ever spacewalk by non-professional astronauts.
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Webb peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy
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New Galileo satellites operational after successful in-orbit testing
A review of humanity's planned expansion between the Earth and the moon
S. Korea space transport ambitions hopes to challenge SpaceX
Europe's Vega rocket launches in French Guiana
Artemis IV: Gateway gadget fuels deep space dining
Managing space debris through space law
Sentinel-2C joins the Copernicus family in orbit
Gateway's propulsion system testing throttles up
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Researchers develop new technique to watch microbial populations interact
