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CBS News

SpaceX is building a souped-up version of its cargo Dragon spacecraft to drive the International Space Station out of orbit for a controlled re-entry and breakup over an uninhabited stretch of ocean when the lab is finally retired in the 2030 timeframe …

Space.com

“This will give valuable information about the extreme physics behind the launching of the jet, a phenomenon which is still not well understood.” Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Spaceflight Now

NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space Center. Image: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas. NASA announced Wednesday it was pulling the plug on the VIPER …

Space.com

A mandatory mishap investigation is ongoing. SpaceX, however, asked the Federal Aviation Administration Monday (July 15) to allow for future launches under a “public safety determination”, meaning the launch posed no risk to public safety.

The New York Times

A worker guides a lunar rover that is descending from above inside a research center. An egress test of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 2022 …

Los Angeles Times

Star-gazers look at the starry sky above Anza-Borrego Desert State Park during. Star-gazers on a tour with California Overland Desert look at the starry sky above Anza-Borrego Desert State Park as a meteor streaks by during the annual Perseid meteor shower …

PBS NewsHour

This spacecraft will require an especially powerful rocket just to get to orbit, according to NASA. The capsule would be launched 1 1/2 years before the station’s planned demise. Astronauts still would be aboard as it’s gradually lowered.

Scientific American

Astronauts still survive on freeze-dried meals. Could better food, aided by cooking gadgets designed to be used in microgravity, help them to thrive? By Andrew Chapman. On Earth, hot bubbles rise and gravity keeps water at the bottom of a pot.

Livescience.com

Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly at the object’s mass — but it would still leave Pluto out of the running. When you purchase through links on our site, …

Space.com

A black shallow hole in a grayish surface. Could future astronauts live in a lunar cave? (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University).