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- Oct- 2021 -13 OctoberScience
Blue Origin Launches William Shatner and Crew to the Final Frontier
VAN HORN, Texas — William Shatner has boldly gone where no 90-year-old has ever gone before. The famed “Star Trek”…
Read More » - 13 OctoberScience
Planetary Defense Is Good—but Is Planetary Offense Better?
Less than eight years from now, on Friday the 13th of April 2029, a 370-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis will pass…
Read More » - 7 OctoberScience
Russian Crew Arrives at Space Station for a Historic Film Shoot
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian film crew docked at the International Space Station today (Oct. 5) after a short…
Read More » - 6 OctoberScience
Astronomers Get Ready to Probe Europa’s Hidden Ocean for Life
Beyond Mars and the asteroid belt, half a billion miles from the sun, the solar system might seem frigid, bleak,…
Read More » - Sep- 2021 -28 SeptemberScience
Mars on the Cheap: Scientists Are Working to Revolutionize Access to the Red Planet
While officials at NASA and the European Space Agency, as well as planners in China, plot out ultra-expensive and complicated…
Read More » - 23 SeptemberScience
Don’t Count on Billionaires to Get Humanity into Space
On September 18 the privately funded spaceflight Inspiration4 splashed down safely in the Atlantic after a successful three days orbiting…
Read More » - 22 SeptemberScience
The Nail-Biting Journey of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Is About to Begin
Earlier this month NASA announced that on December 18, after years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope will finally…
Read More » - 22 SeptemberScience
NASA’s NIAC Program Gives a Sneak Peek at the Future of Space Travel
From Star Trek-like medical scanners to concepts for off-planet agriculture like in The Expanse, science fiction has often inspired actual…
Read More » - 22 SeptemberScience
NASA Unveils Ice-Hunting VIPER Rover’s Lunar Landing Site
We now know where NASA’s first-ever robotic moon rover will touch down. The ice-hunting Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER)…
Read More » - 21 SeptemberScience
SpaceX’s Private Inspiration4 Crew Is Back on Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After three days in space, SpaceX’s first all-civilian crew returned to Earth, splashing down off the…
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