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Archive for March 30th, 2021

NASA’s Mars helicopter is slowly unfolding beneath the Perseverance rover

March 30th, 2021 by

Perseverance is getting ready to deploy a helicopter on Mars as it takes a look back at its litter on the Red Planet.

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SpaceX’s Dragon spaceship is getting the ultimate window for private Inspiration4 spaceflight

March 30th, 2021 by

When SpaceX launches four civilian astronauts on the private Inspiration4 spaceflight, they’re going to have the ultimate window.

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Watch VP Kamala Harris speak with NASA astronauts in space for Women’s History Month

March 30th, 2021 by

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a special call to the International Space Station to celebrate Women’s History Month and some of the ground-breaking work astronauts are doing in orbit.

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Russia’s next space station-bound Soyuz spacecraft named for first cosmonaut

March 30th, 2021 by

The next crew to launch into space will fly on board a vehicle named for the first person to do so, Russia’s space agency has announced. Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei will lift off on Soyuz MS-18, which is now the “Yu.A. Gagarin.”

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On This Day in Space! March 30, 2017: SpaceX launches & lands its 1st used rocket

March 30th, 2021 by

On March 30, 2017, SpaceX launched and landed a used rocket for the first time. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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The ‘Wright’ stuff on Mars: Flyer fabric to take flight again on Ingenuity helicopter

March 30th, 2021 by

A small swatch of fabric is set to take flight on a first-of-its-kind aircraft more than a century, and a world away, from where it first made history. The strip of muslin,

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Rare daytime fireball meteor creates massive sonic boom over UK

March 30th, 2021 by

A rare fireball meteor bright enough to be seen during the day triggered a massive sonic boom over parts of the UK and France.

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Contest-winning crew unveiled for all-civilian Inspiration4 spaceflight on a SpaceX rocket

March 30th, 2021 by

A former Space Camp counselor and an “analog astronaut” whose father tracked Apollo experiments deployed on the moon have won seats aboard the first all-civilian spaceflight.

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