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Archive for April, 2021

NASA’s New Horizons probe reaches rare distance, looks out to farthest Voyager

April 15th, 2021 by

Fifteen years after launching and six years after becoming the first probe to fly by Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons is reaching 50 AU, a marker that has been passed only by four other spacecraft.

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Scientists paint best yet portrait of closest known fast radio burst

April 15th, 2021 by

Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.

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‘For All Mankind’ sneak peek: Family tensions erupt in penultimate season 2 episode ‘Triage’

April 15th, 2021 by

Family tensions run high in the penultimate season 2 episode of “For All Mankind” Friday (April 16) on Apple TV+.

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SpaceX’s Crew-2 astronaut mission for NASA: Live updates

April 15th, 2021 by

SpaceX's next crewed launch for NASA will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on the Crew-2 mission on April 22. Liftoff is set for 6:11 a.m. EDT (1011 GMT). Known as Crew-2, the mission will mark SpaceX's third crewed spaceflight and will ferry NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet on a six-month mission to the space station.

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Listen live tonight: NASA, SpaceX to discuss Crew-2 astronaut launch

April 15th, 2021 by

NASA and SpaceX will hold a press teleconference today, April 15, at 6 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) to discuss the next astronaut launch from U.S. soil on April 22.

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SpaceX’s next astronaut launch for NASA lifts off April 22. How to watch online.

April 15th, 2021 by

NASA and SpaceX are preparing to send the second operational commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, and you can watch the preparations, launch and arrival live.

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On This Day in Space! April 15, 2005: NASA spacecraft collides with satellite

April 15th, 2021 by

On April 15, 2005, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with a small communications satellite. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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Russia is going back to the moon this year

April 15th, 2021 by

Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon.

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