SpaceX needs to tame toilet trouble before weekend launch
SpaceX is taming some toilet troubles in its Dragon capsules before launching four more astronauts.
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Bezos' Blue Origin announces plans for private space station
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Monday announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialize the cosmos heats up.
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NASA targeting Feb. 2022 to launch new lunar program Artemis
NASA said Friday it is now targeting February 2022 for the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1, the first step in America's plan to return humans to the Moon later this decade.
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Using laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew
A small international team of researchers has used laser-stimulated fluorescence to learn more about how pterosaurs flew. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their ...
Virgin Galactic says FAA has cleared it for further flights
Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder ...
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Sep 30, 2021
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Life support cooked up from lunar rocks
Engineers have successfully shown how water and oxygen can be extracted by cooking up lunar soil, in order to support future Moon bases. A laboratory demonstrator, developed by a consortium of the Politecnico Milano, the ...
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Sep 23, 2021
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Hoverflies navigate using sun and body clock
Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2021
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Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown
Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2021
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Migrating birds choose routes with the best wind and uplift conditions
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz in Germany have identified how large land birds fly nonstop for hundreds of kilometers over the open ocean—without taking a break for ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2021
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Icarus can fly high and save on wax too
"Don't fly too close to the sun," said Daedalus to Icarus. Flying too high would melt the wax in his wings, while going too low would cause the sea's moisture to create drag.
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