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NASA's DART asteroid-impact mission will be a key test of planetary defense
When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) slams into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, it will be our first attempt to demonstrate our ability to deflect dangerous incoming asteroids.
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Hilton to design astronaut suites, facilities for Voyager's private space station Starlab
PARIS — Hotel giant Hilton has signed on to design astronaut facilities for the private space station Starlab, currently under development by Voyager Space Holdings and Lockheed Martin, the companies told CNBC on Monday.
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Vast Space to develop artificial-gravity space station
Vast Space, a Southern California startup founded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, plans to establish an artificial-gravity space station in low Earth orbit. McCaleb envisions a future where millions of people are living throughout the solar system. Since other companies are helping to reduce launch costs, McCaleb thinks the next important step will be creating large structures where people can live and work in space.
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NASA science head to step down
The NASA associate administrator responsible for the agency’s science programs will resign by the end of the year after more than six years on the job. NASA announced Sept. 13 that Thomas Zurbuchen would step down as associate administrator for science at the end of the year. He had served in that role since October 2016.
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NASA Has a New Target Date to Launch SLS Megarocket
After two failed attempts to launch its mega Moon rocket, NASA is planning for a third go at its inaugural Artemis mission. The space agency is now hoping to test the rocket on September 21 and finally launch it to space six days later, with a backup opportunity in early October. That is, if Space Force agrees.
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NASA targets Sept. 23 for next Artemis 1 launch attempt, but a lot has to go right
NASA needs to fix a hydrogen leak, ace a fueling test and secure a critical safety system waiver to even try to launch this month.
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NASA once again calls off Artemis I launch due to technical issues
NASA has once again waved off an attempt to launch its massive new moon rocket on an uncrewed test mission because of technical issues. The scrub was called at 11:17 a.m. ET, three hours before the beginning of the launch window.
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SpaceX gets $1.4 billion contract for five more NASA astronaut launches
SpaceX's partnership with NASA just got $1.4 billion sweeter, as the space agency announced Wednesday that it's extending its deal with the company to cover five additional missions.
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'Historic' Mars Experiment Produces Oxygen at the Rate of 1 Earth Tree
When NASA's robotic Perseverance rover blasted off to Mars last year, it brought with it a small, golden box called MOXIE, for the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. Since then, MOXIE has been making oxygen out of thin Martian air.
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Four Things We’ve Learned About NASA’s Planned Base Camp on the Moon
Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in more than a half century, but NASA’s Artemis program is going to send them back with a series of missions beginning in early September. When the first astronaut plants her boots in the lunar soil in 2025 as part of Artemis III, assuming the current schedule holds, it will be the start of an even more ambitious project than sending humans back to the moon: NASA plans to construct a base camp somewhere among the gray dust and craggy rocks of the moon’s south pole.
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You can even buy a holiday home in the first hotel in space
Space tourism is no longer the stuff of science fiction — it’s just around the corner. Aside from private missions to space, like Inspiration4 and DearMoon, in which members of the general public will spend a few days in a SpaceX vehicle circling the Earth and moon, respectively, there are also a few space hotels...
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NASA’s newest rocket is a colossal waste of money
In his new book, “The Crux”, Richard Rumelt, a professor of business strategy, writes about a conversation he once had with an air-force colonel. What, Mr Rumelt asked, is the perfect fighter jet? The colonel replied: “The perfect design would have contractors in each state and a part made in each congressional district.” The tale is told after Mr Rumelt has described the waste and incoherence of nasa’s Space Shuttle programme—something he blames squarely on Congress.
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50 years later, NASA is sending the most powerful rocket, Artemis I, back to the moon
Nearly 50 years after the final Apollo mission visited the lunar surface, NASA has launched a program that aims to put people back to the moon on the surface of Mars and other uncharted lunar regions: It all starts with rocket Artemis I.
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Artemis Accords: Why the international moon exploration framework matters
Next week's moon launch is just the beginning. As the world counts down to the planned Aug. 29 liftoff of the Artemis 1 mission, which will use a Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket to send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon, NASA and its international partners are already planning for the future.
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Sun's crazy active cycle could mess with NASA's Artemis moon mission
The sun is ramping up for Solar Cycle 25's solar maximum at a faster rate than previously expected, which could have knock-on effects on future space missions, experts say.
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63 years after John F. Kennedy's 'we choose to go to the moon' speech, NASA's Artemis program plans to put humans back on the lunar surface
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told 40,000 people in Rice University's football stadium that by the end of the decade, the United States would land astronauts on the moon. "But why, some say, the moon?" he posed to the crowd. "Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon.
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As NASA nears return to the moon with Artemis program, lunar scientists' excitement reaches fever pitch
Lunar science is set to be transformed by NASA's Artemis moon program, which will send astronauts to the moon's surface after an absence of over 50 years and launch nearly five dozen robotic missions over the next three years.
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In pictures: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated on World Photography Day
World Photography Day arrived on Friday — but this year's global event comes in the wake of some beautiful images from beyond Earth. The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), NASA wrote on July 12, 2022.
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Watch NASA unveil landing sites for Artemis 3 human return to the moon
NASA will unveil potential future landing sites for a human return to the surface of the moon, and you can watch the briefing on Space.com today (Aug. 19), or directly on the space agency's website. NASA is serious about getting humans back to the moon this decade and has already worked out the most convenient landing sites that will be targeted by the Artemis 3 mission in 2025.
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Need more air in space? Magnets could yank it out of water.
Humans tend to take a lot for granted, even something as simple as a breath of fresh air. It’s easy to forget how much our bodies depend on oxygen—until it becomes an invaluable resource, such as aboard the International Space Station. Although astronauts are typically sent to space with stores of necessary supplies, it’d be too costly to keep sending tanks of breathable air up to the station. Instead the oxygen that astronauts rely on for primary life support is created through a process called electrolysis, wherein electricity is used to split water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas.
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