Launcher integration for the inaugural flight of Vega-C began with the P120C solid-fuel first stage being delivered to the Vega Launch Zone (Zone de Lancement Vega, or ZLV) at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on ...
Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2022
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Russia is scheduled to launch its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years on Friday, pitting it in a space race with India which is also aiming to land a lunar craft this month.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2023
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Humans have long dreamed of setting foot on the moon and other planetary bodies such as Mars. Since the 1960s, space travelers have donned suits designed to protect them from the vacuum of space and stepped out into the unknown.
Space Exploration
Mar 7, 2024
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second mission, Minerva. One hundred days in, mission Minerva is still going strong. From completing ...
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2022
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NASA's InSight lander captured a series of sunrise and sunset images.
Space Exploration
May 2, 2019
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Cui Tingting dyed her hair Mars red for the arrival of China's spacecraft at the planet known in Chinese as the Fire Star.
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2021
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Look again at that space station. That's there. That's home for a crew of six astronauts. That's us, too. On board, astronauts perform science and maintain the spacecraft with the support of a whole team on Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2019
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A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville will help analyze moon rocks collected decades ago and never before opened.
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2019
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On Jan. 9, NASA announced it would be shifting the launch of Artemis II to September 2025. Artemis III—the first mission to land humans on the surface of the moon since 1972—was moved to September 2026.
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2024
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On 30 April 2023, all nominal operations of Aeolus, the first mission to observe Earth's wind profiles on a global scale, will conclude in preparation for a series of end of life activities.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 18, 2023
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