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Archive for April 1st, 2023

Building the space age: Acknowledging skilled workers

April 1st, 2023 by

Only rarely do we see or hear about skilled tradespeople receiving the accolades they so rightfully deserve within the space community, and we feel that this is an injustice that must be rectified.

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Who is Bo-Katan Kryze?

April 1st, 2023 by

The fearless Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze is playing a huge role in The Mandalorian season 3, but what’s her full history? Here’s everything you should know.

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April delights: Mercury, Venus and the Pleiades put on a sky show this month

April 1st, 2023 by

From now through mid-April, Venus will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury. And along the way, Venus will have a striking interaction with the Pleiades star cluster.

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Best space pranks: From space apes to smuggled sandwiches

April 1st, 2023 by

Explore some of the best pranks carried out in space. From rogue gorillas to smuggled sandwiches, we discover the lighter side of space exploration.

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Son’s design for astronaut dad’s mission patch put into production 40 years later

April 1st, 2023 by

A sketch that NASA astronaut Mike Mullane’s son drew as a possible patch design for his 1984 space shuttle mission has been made into a new embroidered emblem.

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Artemis 2’s Canadian astronaut got their moon mission seat with ‘potato salad’

April 1st, 2023 by

It took four years of negotiations for Canada to get a seat aboard Artemis 2, the mission that will send four astronauts around the moon in 2024. Here’s how it happened.

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SpaceX Starship will launch this new private moon rover in 2026 (video)

April 1st, 2023 by

A new lunar rover built by Astrolab will launch on an upcoming SpaceX Starship mission to the moon as early as 2026.

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UAE Mars orbiter creates stunning new map of the Red Planet

April 1st, 2023 by

A new map of Mars shows the Red Planet in stunning detail, revealing a wealth of fascinating geological features as seen from orbit.

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