(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists used an ion beam in a basement room at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate solar winds on the surface of the Moon. The table-top simulation helped confirm that the Moon is inherently ...
Space Exploration
Aug 6, 2010
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Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation is a sponsor and ...
Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2018
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SpaceX has rescheduled for Thursday the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond, after a technical glitch forced a halt to the countdown.
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2023
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In a discreet vacuumed-packed container inside a FedEx box lies a piece of ancient history; extremely ancient history.
Planetary Sciences
Jul 16, 2024
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A freeze-dried beef pot roast, the business card of the first man to walk on the moon, and a Playboy calendar that rode to space in 1969 are among a mishmash of old space items on US auction this week.
Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2011
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This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most remote, arid regions on the ...
Space Exploration
Aug 23, 2019
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A $6 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument designed to study the behavior of lunar dust will be riding on a NASA mission to the moon now slated for launch on Friday, Sept. 6, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2013
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Earlier this week, the Artemis I moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window.
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2022
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A revolution in space manufacturing is coming. Enabled by cheaper launch costs, companies are scrambling to take advantage of easier access to the benefits space offers as a manufacturing environment. These include a constant ...
Space Exploration
May 18, 2023
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It's been more than 50 years since the Apollo missions, and in that time, chemical analyses of the recovered lunar materials have revolutionized our understanding of planetary materials. One of the major findings as a result ...
Astronomy
Sep 8, 2020
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