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Live-action ‘Gundam’ movie enters full production as Bandai drops Netflix to partner with Legendary Pictures

February 10th, 2025 by me

This live-action version of the mecha anime franchise is powering into production after seven years stuck in the hangar.

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Crater-diving hopper ‘Gracie’ will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month

February 10th, 2025 by me

Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander will carry four mobile robots, including a hopper named Gracie, toward the moon when it launches late this month.

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Who is Janet Petro, Trump’s pick for acting NASA administrator?

February 10th, 2025 by me

Janet Petro became the first woman to lead NASA on Jan. 20. Here’s what we know about U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for head of the space agency.

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Auction offers Neil Armstrong’s reply to NASA engineer’s Apollo 11 mission patch ideas

February 10th, 2025 by me

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong’s note and the patch idea that inspired it are now up for auction.

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World’s fastest supercomputer ‘El Capitan’ goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research

February 9th, 2025 by me

The world’s fastest supercomputer ‘El Capitan’ can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet’s third exascale computer.

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NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions

February 9th, 2025 by me

General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel and finding it can withstand extreme conditions.

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Space weather scales are outdated and confusing. Here’s what NOAA scientists are doing about it

February 9th, 2025 by me

After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA’s Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess what changes need to be front and center.

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See Mars next to a nearly full moon in the sky tonight

February 9th, 2025 by me

The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky on the evening of Sunday, Feb. 9.

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