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Space.com

Though the premiere of SLS was delayed several times beyond its originally targeted launch date of 2017, the rocket performed perfectly in delivering the Orion spacecraft to Earth orbit.

Space.com

Upheaval on Twitter under its new owner, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, is not distracting SpaceX from delivering on NASA’s needs, the agency administrator said. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that the tumultuous Twitter takeover has not affected …

Space.com

She saw Earthrise as part of the underpinning of a “moral community” that would enable a more equitable distribution of the planet’s wealth. Blue marble. The last Apollo mission took place in 1972.

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But NASA is considering changing that policy and opening fresh data from the $10 billion observatory to the world at large, and scientists are divided. “It’s a quite controversial subject,” Alessandra …

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The antimatter counterparts of light atomic nuclei can travel vast distances through the Milky Way before being absorbed, new findings have revealed. As these particles travel, they potentially act as “messengers” for dark matter, so the revelation …

Phys.Org

U.S. Navy divers secure NASA’s Orion capsule during recovery operations after it splashed down in the Pacific off Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, concluding a 25-day test flight. The mission should clear the way for astronauts on the program’s next …

CNET

At 12:40 p.m. ET, Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. NASA Johnson. During …

Space.com

NASA is moving ahead with the development of a spacecraft to hunt for potentially hazardous asteroids and aims to launch by June 2028. The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope has passed a crucial milestone known as a Key Decision Point C …

Phys.Org

Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that perform biological functions. But what happens with the sequences not selected by nature? And what possibilities lie in …

WIRED

Orion was then scooped up by a recovery crew and sent to port in San Diego, carried in the well of the Navy ship USS Portland. With Artemis 1 in the books, NASA will scrutinize the capsule’s performance, making sure it is safe for future crewed trips to …