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‘Beppo go home?’ An astronaut monkey steals hearts in tear-jerking SNL skit

November 7th, 2024 by

Saturday Night Live released a heart-wrenching skit about Beppo the astronaut monkey.

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SpaceX’s Dragon is about to do something to the ISS it’s never done before

November 7th, 2024 by

The data from the reboost, scheduled for Nov. 8, will help inform design for a larger Dragon to deorbit the ISS.

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Venus’ ‘missing’ giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight

November 7th, 2024 by

Venus’ wrinkled, deformed “tesserae” terrain may be ancient impact features the size of continents, a new study suggests.

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SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites early Nov. 7 on 2nd half of doubleheader

November 7th, 2024 by

SpaceX plans to launch 20 Starlink internet satellites from California early Thursday morning (Nov. 7), just hours after lofting another batch from the East Coast.

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‘Fastest-feeding’ black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?

November 7th, 2024 by

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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Sun erupts with powerful X2.3 solar flare, triggers radio blackouts (video)

November 7th, 2024 by

A X2.3 solar flare Wednesday morning (Nov. 6), leading to shortwave radio blackouts for parts of the southern hemisphere.

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‘What’s Starlink?’ Trump talks Elon Musk, Starship and SpaceX in election night victory speech (video)

November 7th, 2024 by

President-elect Donald Trump had high words of praise for Elon Musk and SpaceX during his election night victory speech, mentioning twice that he did not know what Starlink satellites were.

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SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch

November 7th, 2024 by

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever on Nov. 18, on a test flight that will include another dramatic booster catch.

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