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Archival video footage, audio immerses audiences in Apollo: Objectives to the Moon

Archival video footage, audio immerses audiences in Apollo: Objectives to the...

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Walter Schirra in Command Module on Apollo 7. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration View of Earth as seen from Moon taken on Apollo 8. NASA/National Archives and Records Administration David Scott performing side hatch EVA during Apollo 9. NASA View of the Moon as seen from Apollo 10. NASA Neil Armstrong inside Lunar Module on…
SpaceIL Ditches its Strategies to return to the Moon. Rather, it’s Got a New Trick “Substantial Goal” for Beresheet 2

SpaceIL Ditches its Strategies to return to the Moon. Rather, it’s...

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Mystery. Secrecy. A Need-To-Know Basis. These are the hallmarks of science. Wait a minute: no they’re not. So what’s with all the mysterious secret objective talk from SpaceIL about Beresheet2? The Beresheet moon lander, you’ll recall, was a privately-funded spacecraft that was spawned by the Google Lunar XPRIZE. It was one of the finalists for…
Deep Area Atomic Clocks Will Assist Spacecraft Response, with Extraordinary Accuracy, if They exist Yet

Deep Area Atomic Clocks Will Assist Spacecraft Response, with Extraordinary Accuracy,...

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How do spacecraft know where they are? There’s no GPS out there. Right now, it involves sending a signal to the spacecraft which the spacecraft then sends right back to Earth. The elapsed time reveals the distance. But on June 24th, that method could be replaced by something much more autonomous. The method of relaying…
Originality to Decrease Muscle Loss Throughout Spaceflight

Originality to Decrease Muscle Loss Throughout Spaceflight

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One of the obstacles to long space missions is the muscle loss that astronauts suffer from. It’s called atrophy, and NASA says that astronauts can lose up to 20% muscle mass during missions of only 5 to 11 days. This muscle loss affects what are called “anti-gravity muscles,” including calf muscles, the quadriceps and the…
Europe is Dealing With a Reusable Area Transportation System: Area Rider

Europe is Dealing With a Reusable Area Transportation System: Area Rider

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The ESA is developing its own spacecraft capable of re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The reusable spacecraft is called the Space RIDER (Reusable Integrated Demonstrator for Europe Return), and the ESA says that the Space Rider will be ready for launch by 2022. It’s being designed to launch on the Vega-C rocket from Europe’s spaceport in…
Planetary Society’s Gentle Sail 2 is Set to Launch on a Falcon Heavy Rocket Subsequent Month

Planetary Society’s Gentle Sail 2 is Set to Launch on a...

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The Planetary Society is going to launch their LightSail 2 CubeSat next month. LightSail 2 is a test mission designed to study the feasibility of using sunlight for propulsion. The small satellite will use the pressure of sunlight on its solar sails to propel its way to a higher orbit. The launch is scheduled for…
Japan’s First Private Rocket Flies to Area

Japan’s First Private Rocket Flies to Area

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Have you heard of Interstellar Technologies? They’re the latest private company to launch their own rocket into space. They’re a Japanese company, and like other private space companies, their stated goal is to lower the cost to access space. As reported in the The Japan Times, the company launched their Momo3 rocket from Hokkaido on…
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Flies Once Again, a Week Prior To Their Mystical Statement

Blue Origin’s New Shepard Flies Once Again, a Week Prior To...

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Today’s breed of billionaire space entrepreneurs likes to keep us guessing, don’t they? Mr. Elon Musk is famous for announcing partial plans on Twitter, then leaving us to cajole the details out of him. Now, Jim Bezos, Amazon founder and Blue Origin visionary, is making us guess what an upcoming mysterious announcement might mean, all…
Beresheet Crashed.

Beresheet Crashed.

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The Israeli Beresheet spacecraft has crashed into the Moon. The craft, whose name is Hebrew for “in the beginning” made its descent to the Moon but failed to stick its landing. If it had been successful, it would have put Israel in elite company, and made them only the fourth country to have a soft…
Wish to Relocate To Mars? A Round-Trip Ticket Will Just Expense $100,000 According to Elon Musk

Wish to Relocate To Mars? A Round-Trip Ticket Will Just Expense...

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Elon Musk just suggested that the price for a trip to Mars and back could be as low as $100,000. He added the qualifier that the price depends on volume. So it looks like the price is anything but astronomical. In a tweet on Sunday night, Musk had this to say: Very dependent on volume,…

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