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Tom Hanks returns to the moon with ‘The Moonwalkers,’ a new visual experience

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 21:11

What do you get when you combine the firm that made the Washington Monument into a Saturn V, the imagery of ‘Apollo Remastered’ and the actor who made ‘Houston, we have a problem’ a household phrase?

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Artemis 2 astronaut crew suits up for moon launch dress rehearsal (photos, video)

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 20:11

The Artemis 2 crew did a launch day simulation on Sept. 20 for their 2024 moon mission. Seven key ground tests are planned by NASA in the coming months.

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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will bring asteroid samples to Earth in 5 not-so-easy steps

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 17:11

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will face one of the toughest parts of its journey: Protecting samples taken from asteroid Bennu as its capsule descends through Earth’s atmosphere for recovery.

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Next stop, Europa? Nano subs to get test beneath Antarctic ice in 2026

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 17:11

A European collaboration aims to break through some of the technological barriers to the exploration of icy moons like Jupiter’s Europa, using Antarctica as a proving ground.

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Virgin Galactic’s next flight will take a Pakistani to space for the 1st time

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 05:11

Namira Slim will become the first person from Pakistan to reach space on Virgin Galactic’s ‘Galactic 04’ mission, which is slated to fly on Oct. 5.

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Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart in explosive test (video)

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 04:11

Sierra Space’s latest explosion with its LIFE module tested a metal plate inside an inflatable structure. The module will fly on a private successor to the International Space Station.

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$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universe

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 04:11

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonovi? won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flies through major coronal mass ejection — and survives to tell the tale

Submit on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 02:11

The sun-kissing spacecraft watched as dust particles were displaced across 6 million miles (9.7 million kilometers).

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