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February 26, 2023
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Space.com

Experience SpaceX’s Crew-6 astronaut mission with these amazing photos

The mission will be SpaceX’s ninth overall crewed flight and the fourth for Crew Dragon Endeavour, the spacecraft that will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carry the mission’s four crewmembers to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Space.com

SpaceX on track to launch Crew-6 astronaut mission for NASA tomorrow (Feb. 27)

NASA and SpaceX held a prelaunch teleconference late on Saturday (Feb. 25) to discuss the upcoming mission that will see the Crew Dragon Endeavour launch to the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

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Space.com

Asteroid Ryugu is rich in organic molecules that can be building blocks of life

The Ryugu sample contains several so-called “prebiotic organics” including several types of amino acids that are used by living things to build proteins essential for regulating chemical reactions and forming structures like hair and muscles.

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Space.com

How deep-sea silica ends up in Saturn moon Enceladus’ famous geysers

Icy particles of silica ejected from Saturn’s moon Enceladus are blasted out by heating at its frozen core as it is squashed and stretched by the gas giant’s tremendous gravity. These particles start their journey at the seafloor of Enceladus’ vast …

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WIRED

No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology

But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately shone into the telescope’s field of view. “They were just so stupidly bright, and they just stood out,” said Rohan Naidu, an …

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Space.com

DNA from 4 American presidents will launch to deep space

DNA from Presidents Washington, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan will join cast and crew from “Star Trek.” … DNA from four former United States presidents will be going to space. … Memorial capsules headed for deep space. (Image credit: Celestis Inc.).

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EarthSky

A supermassive black hole has astronomers talking

Supermassive black hole: Dark sky with 2 irregularly shaped galaxies mashed up together. Fast star formation – and a central supermassive black hole obscured by dust – characterize the discovery of a new, exceedingly distant galaxy labeled COS-87259.

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Spaceflight Now

Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon roll out to pad 39A

SpaceX transported a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to pad 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 22, for final preparations to carry a four-man crew to the International Space Station on NASA’s Crew-6 mission.

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EarthSky

Newly confirmed meteor crater at site of French winery

And now scientists have confirmed their suspicions. Researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt announced on February 23, 2023, that their rock and soil analyses of the site shows that an iron-nickel meteorite crashed to Earth here thousands of years ago.

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Phys.Org

SpaceX Dragon crew to blast off for ISS

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to blast off early Monday for the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space. The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission is set to lift off from the Kennedy …

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