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Archive for March 22nd, 2021

This epic new Lego space shuttle set will let you recreate NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope mission

March 22nd, 2021 by

You’ll soon be able to recreate one of NASA’s most famous space shuttle missions in Lego for with the new NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set.

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Test pilot Brian Binnie recounts his historic flight on SpaceShipOne and the future of private space travel in new book

March 22nd, 2021 by

Brian Binne, veteran test pilot of SpaceShipOne, weighs in on flying the first commercial spacecraft and what the future of private space travel holds in his new book “The Magic and Menace of SpaceShipOne.”

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The mysterious core of Mars is on the large side, NASA’s InSight lander data suggests

March 22nd, 2021 by

NASA’s InSight lander has spent more than a full Martian year stationed on the Red Planet, and scientists are pleased with the spacecraft’s observations to date, despite the challenges Mars has posed.

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Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua is a pancake-shaped chunk of a Pluto-like planet

March 22nd, 2021 by

‘Oumuamua, the first known visitor from interstellar space, was likely a pancake-shaped chip off a Pluto-like world.

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Why Russian scientists just deployed a giant telescope beneath Lake Baikal

March 22nd, 2021 by

The enormous Baikal-GVD will look for the particles from 4,300 feet (1,310 meters) below the lake surface.

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On This Day in Space! March 22, 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp flies by Earth

March 22nd, 2021 by

On March 22, 1997, a super bright comet by the name of Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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