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Buzz Aldrin gets married at 93 to his longtime love
Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the lunar surface, and his partner Anca Faur were over-the-moon excited to tie the knot. In a small private ceremony in Los Angeles, the two became husband and wife on Friday, which also marked Aldrin's 93rd birthday. In a Twitter post, Aldrin said he and his partner were "as excited as eloping teenagers" on the special day.
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NASA nuclear propulsion concept could reach Mars in just 45 days
NASA selected a nuclear propulsion concept for Phase I development as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program for 2023. The Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP/NEP) concept is a new class of bimodal nuclear propulsion system that uses a "wave rotor topping cycle," as per a NASA blog post.
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It looks like NASA will finally have an astronaut live in space for a full year
NASA has had a series of "almost" a year missions.
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Mars helicopter keeps on flying as it approaches anniversary
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has been on Mars for almost two years and the high-tech contraption is still in good enough shape to get airborne.
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NASA’s return to the moon is off to a rocky start
Artemis aims to deliver astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2025, but it’s riding on an old congressional pet project.
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NASA Releases Hubble Images of Star Right as It Explodes
The Hubble Space Telescope captured three magnificent stages of a star right as it exploded — but it's gone unnoticed until now.
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Dead NASA satellite to crash to Earth this weekend
A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Sunday evening (Jan. 8). The U.S. military predicts that the 5,400-pound (2,450 kilograms) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) will crash back to its home planet Sunday around 6:40 p.m. EST (2340 GMT), plus or minus 17 hours, NASA officials said.
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NASA Releases New Images of Winter Frost on Mars
The surface of Mars gets somewhat warm during the summer, but on average, temperatures on the surface are around -81 degrees F. It’s too cold for human life, and in case you didn’t know, Mars has snow, frost, and even dry ice. NASA recently released a slew of images showing the “winter wonderland on Mars,” and the photos are wild. It’s not often that we get a look at winter on Mars, mainly because the red planet’s elliptical orbit takes a lot longer than Earth.
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‘We’re in a space race’: Nasa sounds alarm at Chinese designs on moon
Administrator Bill Nelson says Beijing could seek ‘own’ resource-rich areas and next two years could be key to US-China contest
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There's no GPS on the moon. NASA and ESA have to fix that before humans return in 2 years.
Without satellite navigation, rockets can't navigate to the moon without ground control, which is costly, cumbersome, and requires a lot of math.
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Jupiter is flinging rocks at Earth 'like a sniper', scientist reveals
Jupiter is flinging dangerous comets and asteroids at Earth rather than acting as its shield, a scientist has revealed. A popular theory suggests that Jupiter acts like a gigantic protector in the solar system, sucking or deflecting dangerous debris with its tremendous mass.
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Is mining in space socially acceptable?
Traditional mining has been subject to a negative stigma for some time. People, especially in developed countries, have a relatively negative view of this necessary economic activity. Primarily that is due to its environmental impacts—greenhouse gas emissions and habitat destruction are some of the effects that give the industry its negative image.
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A Software Glitch Forced the Webb Space Telescope Into Safe Mode
The Webb Space Telescope’s instruments have been in safe mode intermittently since December 7, but scientific operations resumed earlier this week, NASA said in a press release on Wednesday.
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Apollo Guidance Computer Explained: Everything You Need To Know
he Apollo Guidance Computer was the first computer ever built whose operation was based entirely on silicon integrated circuits.
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How the James Webb Space Telescope transformed astronomy this year
One year ago, on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched. Since it began collecting data, it has captured - in stunning detail - previously unobservable stars, planets and galaxies.
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NASA captures a "snapshot in time" showing how a star is born among the Cosmic Cliffs
NASA was able to capture a "gallery of objects ranging from small fountains to burbling behemoths" deep in space: "It's like finding buried treasure."
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‘My power’s really low’: Nasa’s Insight Mars lander prepares to sign off from the Red Planet
Nasa’s InSight lander has delivered what could be its final message from Mars, where it has been on a history-making mission to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s interior. In November the space agency warned the lander’s time may becoming to an end as dust continued to thicken and choke out the InSight’s power.
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NASA Reveals Photo Of Red-Hot Lava On Jupiter's Moon
Io Volcano Observer mission said that the moon is "a true volcanic wonderland with hundreds of erupting volcanoes gushing tons of molten lava."
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NASA Mars rover captures first sound of dust devil on red planet
NASA can now say what a dust devil sounds like on Mars. A NASA rover had its microphone on by chance when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket. It is about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 40kph (25mph), but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday.
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NASA's Perseverance rover captures first-ever sound of dust devil on Mars: "Definitely luck"
What's a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket. It's about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph, but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday.
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