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Archive for April 28th, 2021

Russia wants to build its own space station to replace the ISS, state officials say

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Russia is building modules for a new space station, which could potentially replace the International Space Station by the year 2025, officials said.

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China is set to launch first module of massive space station

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The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists

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Blue Origin and Dynetics file protests to GAO after SpaceX wins NASA’s moon lander contract

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Private spaceflight companies Blue Origin and Dynetics are both filing protests to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), in response to NASA’s decision to make their competitor SpaceX the sole winner of a contract to build the lunar lander for the agency’s Artemis program.

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On This Day in Space! April 28, 2001: World’s 1st space tourist launches to space station

April 28th, 2021 by

On April 28, 2001, the world’s first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Meteorite that landed in Botswana tracked to its birthplace in the asteroid belt

April 28th, 2021 by

The space rock fragments originally came from Vesta, scientists concluded.

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‘Exotic compact objects’ could soon break physics, new study suggests

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Gravitational wave detectors could soon uncover hints of new physics from exotic compact objects.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity spots Perseverance rover from the air (photo)

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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity managed to snap a photo of the Perseverance rover from the air on Sunday (April 25), providing an unprecedented view of a robotic explorer on the surface of another world.

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Here’s how to watch SpaceX launch new Starlink satellites on a used rocket tonight

April 28th, 2021 by

SpaceX will launch a new set of Starlink internet satellites into space on Wednesday (April 28) and you can watch it all live online.

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