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RelaunchSpace reconstructs NASA flight plan for Apollo 11 moon landing

More than half a century since its pages served as humanity's first roadmap to the moon, NASA's Apollo 11 flight plan has been relaunched.

'Rebooting' the moon: NASA's Artemis program aims for lunar sustainability

Artemis moonwalkers will need innovative technologies in order to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and forge the first long-term presence on the moon.

'Hopping' space dust may help asteroids bust a move

Snap, crackle, pop! Dust 'hopping' on asteroids might influence how these small bodies migrate through space.

NASA's head warned that China may try to claim the moon — two space scholars explain why that's unlikely to happen

China is unlikely to claim control over the moon despite concerns of NASA chief Bill Nelson. Here is why.

Weather iffy for SpaceX’s next Starlink launch Sunday

A stack of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket during a recent launch. Credit: SpaceX

Forecasters predict a 50-50 chance of good weather at Cape Canaveral for launch of SpaceX’s next batch of Starlink internet satellites Sunday on a Falcon 9 rocket.

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Booster 7’s BOOM, Nuclear Mission to Neptune, More JWST Images

Even more pictures from James Webb Space Telescope, China’s planning a mission to Neptune, SpaceX’s Booster 7 suffers from an explosion, black holes are messy eaters, going under Europa’s ice crust and more.

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SpaceX launches 25th Dragon resupply mission to space station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin the 25th Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station in a fiery twilight departure Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, hauling a $118 million climate instrument, fresh food, experiments, and other supplies for the lab’s seven-person crew.

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Exclusive: Vice TV explores the making of 'Star Wars' with its new 'Icons Unearthed' docu-series

Brian Volk-Weiss and The Nacelle Company present a new "Star Wars" history series for Vice TV.

Watch SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule dock with the space station Saturday morning

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will meet up with the International Space Station on Saturday (July 16), and you can watch the orbital action live.

These Ancient Microbes Give a Glimpse of What Extraterrestrial Life Might Look Like

Will we discover simple life somewhere? Maybe on Enceladus or Europa in our Solar System, or further away on an exoplanet? As we get more proficient at exploring our Solar System and studying exoplanets, the prospect of finding some simple life is moving out of the creative realm of science fiction and into concrete mission planning.

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Virgin Galactic opening new spaceship factory in Arizona

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic could build up to six spaceships a year at its newly announced Arizona facility.

JWST Also Looked Inside the Solar System, at Jupiter and its Moons

After the ‘big reveal’ earlier this week of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full color images and spectra of the universe, the science team has now released data from closer to home. One stunning shot includes Jupiter and its moons, and there are also data from several asteroids. These latest data are actually just engineering images, designed to test JWST’s ability to track solar system targets, as well as test out how the team can produce images from the data. The quality and detail in these test images have excited the mission scientists.

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Russian cosmonaut will fly to space station with SpaceX this fall

NASA announced today (July 15) that it has signed a deal with Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos to exchange seats on craft traveling to and from the International Space Station.

NASA commissions independent review of delayed Psyche mission to metal asteroid

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is moving into a review after software testing issues forced an extended launch delay to at least July 2023. Its future remains uncertain.

To get Artificial Gravity on the Moon, you'd Need a Giant Rotating Lunar Base

Living and working in space for extended periods of time presents a number of challenges. These include radiation, as locations beyond Earth’s protective magnetosphere are exposed to greater levels of solar and cosmic rays. There’s also the need for self-sufficiency since Lunar or Martian bases are too far to rely on regular resupply missions like the International Space Station (ISS). Last, there’s the issue of low gravity, which is especially pressing for long-term missions and habitats beyond Earth. If humanity’s future truly lies in space, we must devise solutions to this issue in advance.

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Jupiter is now rising in the evening sky. Here's how to spot the king of the night.

Jupiter is starting to rise around midnight, and will even meet up with the moon on Tuesday (July 19).

Russia dismisses space agency chief in wake of international controversies

Russia has dismissed its controversial space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin following multiple international controversies.

See a Rare Transit of Iapetus on July 17–18

It's tiny. It's challenging. But you won't get the chance to see Iapetus transit the globe of Saturn again until 2037!

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James Webb Space Telescope detects clouds on a 'hot Jupiter' that we thought had clear skies

The James Webb Space Telescope is already confounding expectations, showing that we still have much to learn about the atmospheres of "hot Jupiters."

Amazing photos of the Buck supermoon of 2022 from around the world

The largest full moon of 2022, the Buck Moon put on quite a show for moongazers all over the world yesterday (July 13).


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