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Dragon crew rehearses for launch day, first-look weather forecast looks good
Read more →: Dragon crew rehearses for launch day, first-look weather forecast looks goodNASA commander Shane Kimbrough, pilot Megan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide stand…
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SpaceX Beats Out Blue Origin, Dynetics for $2.89B NASA Moon Lander Contract
Read more →: SpaceX Beats Out Blue Origin, Dynetics for $2.89B NASA Moon Lander ContractSpaceX has won yet another significant human space exploration contract with NASA. This time, the company was awarded…
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Live coverage: NASA confirms successful first flight of Mars helicopter
Read more →: Live coverage: NASA confirms successful first flight of Mars helicopterLive coverage of the the Ingenuity helicopter’s flight test campaign on Mars. Text updates will appear automatically below; there…
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NASA schedules first Mars helicopter test flight for Monday
Read more →: NASA schedules first Mars helicopter test flight for MondayAfter some long-distance troubleshooting, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter will attempt the first flight of its kind on another…
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Three years on, TESS delivers on discoveries as extended mission continues
Read more →: Three years on, TESS delivers on discoveries as extended mission continuesThree years ago, on April 18, 2018, NASA’s and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite,…
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Starship SN15 prepares for flight following major NASA vindication
Read more →: Starship SN15 prepares for flight following major NASA vindicationStarship SN15 is expected to undergo a Static Fire test as early as this week to clear the…
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NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on the Moon
Read more →: NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on the MoonArtist’s concept of a Starship on the moon. Credit: SpaceX NASA has selected SpaceX to build a spacecraft…
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity completes high-speed spin test after last week’s complications
Read more →: Mars Helicopter Ingenuity completes high-speed spin test after last week’s complicationsAfter delays in the first flight of Ingenuity due to a failure to complete the first high-speed spin…
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NASA selects SpaceX to develop human landing system for Artemis moon mission using Starship
Read more →: NASA selects SpaceX to develop human landing system for Artemis moon mission using StarshipNASA is actively working on Artemis, a space exploration program that includes a mission to send the first…
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Former astronaut Pam Melroy named as Biden pick for NASA deputy administrator
Read more →: Former astronaut Pam Melroy named as Biden pick for NASA deputy administratorNASA will soon have a new second-in-command leading America’s space agency. The Biden administration announced its intent to…
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SpaceX Starship as NASA’s Artemis lunar human landing system tidbits
Read more →: SpaceX Starship as NASA’s Artemis lunar human landing system tidbitsNASA is buying SpaceX’s Starship rocket a $2.9 billion ticket to the Moon, and the ramifications of that…
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SpaceX test-fires rocket for crew launch
Read more →: SpaceX test-fires rocket for crew launchSpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday ahead of launch with the next four astronauts heading to…