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SpaceX launched Qatar World Cup match balls on Falcon 9 first stage

Submit on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 03:11

A recent SpaceX Falcon 9 launch included the rocket’s first stage landing back on Earth. What differed this time is that the touchdown could also be described as scoring a World Cup GOOOOAAAALLLL!

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Miros?aw Hermaszewski, first Pole to fly into space, dies at 81

Submit on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 02:11

Miros?aw Hermaszewski, who was the first, and to date, only citizen of Poland to fly into space, has died at the age of 81. Hermaszewski launched on Soyuz 30 to the Salyut 6 space station in 1978.

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Major breakthrough in pursuit of nuclear fusion unveiled by US scientists

Submit on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 01:11

American researchers have achieved a major breakthrough paving the way toward nuclear fusion energy generation, but major hurdles remain.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Holds Up Forty-five Years Later

Submit on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 01:11

It might be rapidly approaching 50 years old, but Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still a masterpiece of sci-fi cinema.

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Boom! Watch an inflatable space station module explode on video

Submit on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 00:11

Sierra Space performed a “burst pressure” test on a space station module prototype, to prepare for future development on the Orbital Reef station for NASA.

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The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here’s how to see it

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 23:11

The Geminid meteor shower will peak overnight tonight (Dec. 13 and Dec. 14), producing anywhere from 60 to 120 meteors per hour.

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover records 1st-ever audio of Red Planet dust devil

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 23:11

Perseverance has captured the sound of dust grains impacting the NASA rover, and the recording could be key to understanding how dust is transported around Mars.

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Amateur astronomers challenged to spot an asteroid for Christmas

Submit on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 22:11

On Thursday (Dec. 15), an asteroid that could be as large as the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass Earth. Amateur astronomers are challenged to spot the asteroid.

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