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Ax-1’s four spaceflyers — three paying customers and Axiom’s Michael López-Alegría, who’s commanding the mission — will fly inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule, which will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

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With the company already ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station, reducing NASA’s dependence on Russian Soyuz rides, it seems more possible than ever that SpaceX could fully replace the need for Russia’s Soyuz capsule.

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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has now outflown its Red Planet expectations by a factor of four. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity landed on the floor of Jezero Crater with NASA’s life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021.

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Axiom Space plans to launch Ax-1, the first all-private crewed mission to the International Space Station, on March 30. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon capsule carrying four people, including three paying customers, on a 10-day orbital …

MIT News

(Top row, left to right:) Iwnetim (Tim) Abate, Kaitlyn Becker, Brandon J. DeKosky, Mohsen Ghaffari, Aristide Gumyusenge, Mina Konakovic Lukovic. (Middle row, left to right:) Darcy McRose, Qin (Maggie) Qi, Manish Rhaghavan, Ritu Raman, Nidhi Seethapathi, …

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The mission plan calls for a Rocket Lab Electron launcher to heft a Strix Earth-observation satellite into orbit for the Japanese company Synspective. Rocket Lab will be using the newly completed Pad B at its New Zealand launch complex, which lies on the …

ABC News

The European Space Agency says the launch this year of a joint mission with Russia to Mars is now “very unlikely” due to sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine. By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press. February 28, 2022, 11:08 AM. • 3 min read.

The Verge

As part of the initiative, ESA and Roscosmos launched the first phase of the mission in 2016, sending a spacecraft to orbit Mars and sniff out its atmosphere, as well as a test lander to demonstrate the capabilities needed to land on the Martian surface.

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

DNA carries the blueprint for building bodies, but it’s a living document: Adjustments to the design can be made by epigenetic marks. In humans and other eukaryotes, two principal epigenetic marks are known. A team from the Marine Biological Laboratory …