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September 15, 2024
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Space.com

SpaceX’s private Polaris Dawn astronauts splash down to end historic spacewalk mission

Polaris Dawn has landed. The historic SpaceX astronaut mission — which conducted the first-ever private spacewalk, among other achievements —returned to Earth today (Sept. 15), splashing down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida at …

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BBC News

Astronauts reveal what life is like on ISS – and how they deal with ‘space smell’

In June two American astronauts left Earth expecting to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS). But after fears that their Boeing Starliner spacecraft was unsafe to fly back on, Nasa delayed Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s return …

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Spaceflight Now

Polaris Dawn crew aims for early Sunday splashdown in Gulf of Mexico

Flying along a southwest-to-northeast trajectory, the Crew Dragon capsule, carrying billionaire Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott Poteet and company engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, is expected to fire its braking rockets at 2:40 a.m. EDT Sunday to drop …

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Adafruit Blog

How the crew of NASA’s Artemis II prepares for a mission to the moon

DETROW: That is astronaut Reid Wiseman. And it should be said, he was much more smooth about making his way into the same small nook at the front of the training mockup of an Orion space capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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The Washington Post

SpaceX Polaris crew of four set to splash down after historic mission

The groundbreaking civilian spaceflight mission known as Polaris Dawn was set to conclude Sunday with the 3:36 a.m. splashdown off the coast of Florida of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts.

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NPR

NASA prepares to head back to the moon.

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: I recently found myself awkwardly crouched down, trying not to bang my head and trying to figure out how to wedge myself into a tight, low space. REID WISEMAN: Actually, kneel down… DETROW: OK. WISEMAN: .

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Livescience.com

A long-lost moon could explain Mars’ weird shape and extreme terrain

Unlike the other planets in the solar system, Mars is distinctly triaxial, meaning it is an ellipsoid with different sizes along all three axes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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NHL.com

Tulsky left career in science on way to becoming new Hurricanes GM

The journey, in essence, is what Tulsky has been taking his whole career. It’s not like he set out to major in chemistry or work on solar panels or DNA sequencing or car batteries or, …

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Livescience.com

China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035

The first phase of China’s moon base will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be built by about 2050, if all goes according to plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate …

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