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

Submit on Monday, February 10th, 2025 18:39

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?

Submit on Monday, February 10th, 2025 18:39

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

Submit on Monday, February 10th, 2025 00:12

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

Submit on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 22:11

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

Submit on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 21:11

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Space weather scales are outdated and confusing.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

Submit on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 20:11

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

Submit on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 18:11

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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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 147 — Not As They Seem

Submit on Saturday, February 8th, 2025 23:11

On Episode 147 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Mick West, a passionate conspiracy debunker.

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