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Dragon Crew Ship Docks to New Port
The SpaceX Dragon, with Expedition 69 crew members Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard, has successfully docked to the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station at 8:01 a.m. EDT.
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin named honorary brigadier general, member of Space Force
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin was named an honorary brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and made an honorary member of the U.S. Space Force on Friday, more than 50 years after he first set foot on the moon.
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James Webb telescope detects water vapor in nearby star system, but its origin remains a mystery
The James Webb Space Telescope may have just given the world another monumental scientific breakthrough. On Monday, NASA announced that astronomers detected water vapor around a distant rocky planet with the help of JWST.
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Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
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NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
The interstellar traveler is gradually losing power, but a clever tweak means it can continue running all of its scientific instruments.
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NASA's Perseverance rover loses its hitchhiking 'pet rock' after more than a year together on Mars
The rover has finally lost a pesky rock that had become lodged in its front left wheel "like a pebble in its shoe." The stone had accompanied the rover for more than half its time on the Red Planet.
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Out-of-control defunct NASA satellite will smash into Earth today
The RHESSI satellite, which monitored the sun for nearly two decades, is set to crash to Earth at 9:30 p.m. EDT today.
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NASA TV is Live for SpaceX Cargo Dragon Departure
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station is underway on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. Following commands from ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, Dragon will undock at 11:05 a.m. EDT from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module and fire its thrusters to move a safe distance away from the station.
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California's superbloom is so big and bright, it can be seen from space
NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, which was launched in 2021 to capture images of Earth's land surface, sent back images of bright purple and green blooms in Carrizo Plain National Park.
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The moon could have up to 297 billion tons of water stored in tiny glass beads on its surface, scientists say
Glass beads on the moon's surface may contain nearly 300 billion tons of water, which could provide a way for astronauts on future lunar missions to get water in space, a team of 28 scientists says. Prior research in the last decades has shown that there is water on the moon. But a new study published on Monday in the Nature Geoscience journal gives insight into how humans might be able to find and harvest that water.
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Nasa names first woman and black man on Moon mission
A team of four astronauts will take humanity back to the Moon after a gap of 50 years.
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NASA to name Artemis 2 crew next week, the first moon astronauts in 50 years
We're a week away from a once-in-a-generation announcement: The names of the first moonbound astronauts in decades. On April 3, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will together showcase the three Americans and one Canadian that will go to the moon on Artemis 2, which will launch no sooner than November 2024. The quartet will loop around the moon during the first-ever human lunar mission since the landing of Apollo 17 in December 1972.
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Nokia to set up first 4G network on moon with NASA
Nokia's years-long partnership with NASA is finally taking the mobile giant where no cell phone provider has gone before — the moon. There, the Finnish telecommunications company plans to establish the first lunar 4G network, enabling researchers to make new discoveries that could help support the establishment of a human colony on the moon, CNBC reported.
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Scientists erupt at NASA gutting funding for crucial Venus mission
This month saw the announcement of one of the most exciting findings about Venus in decades: the first direct evidence of an active volcano there. But rather than jubilation, the mood in the planetary science community is grim, as funding has been gutted for a key Venus mission that was poised to answer some of the biggest questions about the planet and its volcanic activity.
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Scientists think they know why interstellar object 'Oumuamua moved so strangely
A strange comet-like object discovered over five years ago was the first known visitor from another solar system. Its movement was so odd that scientists struggled to explain it, until now.
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Why is NASA sending a woman to the moon?
Reflecting on the space agency's decision to include women in the next crewed lunar landing on the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight.
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NASA's AIM mission comes to an end after nearly 16 years
The satellite was put into orbit 312 miles up. Data from the long-running mission helped scientists better understand the formation of these unique clouds, also called night-shining...
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NASA selects Firefly Aerospace for mission to moon's far side in 2026
NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace to land payloads on the moon and send another into orbit to provide communications with the lunar far side. The mission will use Texas-based Firefly Aerospace's robotic Blue Ghost lander to safely deliver two payloads to the far side of the moon, which permanently faces away from Earth.
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NASA unveils new spacesuit with updated tech for new moon missions
On Wednesday morning, an engineer with private space company Axiom walked out onto a stage at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, smiling from behind a domed helmet and visor. He was demonstrating a prototype of a new spacesuit, intended for use in the Artemis III mission slated for 2025, which will send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than half a century.
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NASA picks Axiom Space for its third astronaut mission to the ISS
NASA has chosen Axiom Space's proposal yet again for the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The two parties have already signed a mission order, and they're hoping to launch sometime in November 2023 and beyond from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A more specific date will be announced later, since it will depend on the timing of other flights to the ISS, as well as on in-orbit activity planning.
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