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3 ways SpaceX’s “chopsticks” tie into making multiplanetary transport possible!
SpaceX recently “caught” its massive, 15-storey tall Super Heavy rocket Booster as it approached Ea…
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Another setback for Elon Musk's SpaceX after mishap with NASA rescue mission
SpaceX launched its mission to rescue the two Starliner astronauts — but it didn't go entirely acco…
Tom Carter
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Elon Musk wants to put people on Mars by 2030. Don't count on it.
Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the fi…
Tom Carter
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Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s Boeing spacecraft was giving off a strange, pulsating “sonar-like” pings
The incident, which occurred just days before the uncrewed Starliner was scheduled to return to Ear…
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Budget 2024: How will budget affect India’s position in the global space race?
As per the interim budget announcement, India’s space budget for 2024-25 will stand at around Rs 13…
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Polaris Dawn spacewalk: Watch live as SpaceX's commercial astronauts attempt mission's historic EVA
The Polaris Dawn mission attempts a historic spacewalk today. Watch live as SpaceX's commercial ast…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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First-ever livestream from Mars beamed back images from the red planet despite technical difficulties
Never have images from the red planet been seen in near real-time. Inclement weather disrupted the …
Marianne Guenot
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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth victorious, making huge gains in Elon Musk's plans to send humans to Mars
The Polaris missions are helping fast-track Elon Musk's Mars city, from testing spacesuits and a sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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NASA’s Mars-bound spaceship is in 'safe mode' but the agency isn't too worried
The US space agency explains that ‘safe mode’ is when everything else except for the essential s…
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We put Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars up against Jeff Bezos' vision of living in space — and one is more realistic
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of colonizing space, but have very different ideas of how to do it. …
Ellyn Lapointe
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An engineer who lived in NASA's Mars simulation for 378 days went through extreme isolation but still said he'd go to the red planet for real if he could
Ross Brockwell spent a year in NASA's CHAPEA Mars simulation. He missed Earth but would live on the…
Jenny McGrath
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NASA will pay 4 health-conscious 'astronaut-like' people to live inside a Mars simulation for 378 days. See if you qualify.
NASA opened applications for people to live a paid year in its CHAPEA Mars simulation. The job requ…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic vandalism'
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he plans to have a million people on Mars by 2050. Scientists say tha…
Maiya Focht
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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …
PTI
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A US astronaut involuntarily set a record for time spent in orbit, after his mission home was aborted and added 6 months to his trip
Frank Rubio shattered the record for longest time on a single spaceflight by a US astronaut after t…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA engineers expected their Mars helicopter to crash after 5 liftoffs. It just landed its 15th flight.
Engineers weren't sure if NASA's Ingenuity helicopter would even lift off on Mars. But the drone ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket launches a two-day wet dress rehearsal
The dress rehearsal will demonstrate the team's ability to load more than 700,000 gallons of cryoge…
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NASA thinks it solved the mystery of the Perseverance rover's missing rock sample, but now it has to drive away and try again
Perseverance drilled into Mars rock for the first time - only to find that the sample it cored had …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA can't find the Mars rock sample that the Perseverance rover drilled - it mysteriously disappeared
Last week, Perseverance was finally ready to collect the first sample in its search for ancient Mar…