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NASA's Moon Push and International Opportunities Take Center Stage at SpaceCom 2019

SpaceCom's conference in Houston on Nov. 20 and 21 includes a new focus on commercial opportunities associated with NASA's planned lunar landings in 2024. This year's conference is expected to attract about 2,500 attendees, heavily representing the ...

SpaceX's Starship May Start Flying Moon Missions in 2022

SpaceX's huge Mars-colonizing Starship vehicle could make its first extraterrestrial touchdown just three short years. SpaceX is one of five companies that are newly eligible to deliver robotic payloads to the lunar surface for NASA, via the agency's ...

SpaceX's Full-Size Starship Prototype Takes Its 1st 'Breath'

It looks like SpaceX's shiny new Starship prototype has entered the test phase. The full-size Starship Mk1 vehicle "breathed" during an apparent pressure test yesterday evening (Nov. 18) at SpaceX's facilities near the South Texas village of Boca Chica.

Chinese Kuaizhou-1A Rocket Launches 2 More Satellites into Orbit

China successfully sent another two satellites into orbit on Sunday (Nov. 17), according to a state news report, just days after an epic double rocket liftoff from different launch centers. A Kuaizhou-1A rocket built by the company ExPace (a part of the China ...

50 Years Ago, Americans Made The 2nd Moon Landing... Why Doesn't Anyone Remember?

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Fifty years ago, astronaut Pete Conrad stepped out of the lunar module onto the surface of the moon. His first words were: "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Conrad, who stood at just 5 feet 6 inches tall, was ...

50 Years Ago, Apollo 12 Astronauts Walked on the Moon. They Had the Funniest Crew

Apollo 11 may have made history as the first mission to land humans on the moon, but Apollo 12, which landed on the moon 50 years ago today, apparently had the funniest crew, according to NPR. In the audio interview above from NPR's Morning Edition, ...

NASA scientists confirm water vapor on Europa

Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon's icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in ...

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ESA studies human hibernation for space travel

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In movies and books, fictional astronauts enter 'suspended animation' to cross the vastness of space. Recently ESA investigated how real-life crew hibernation would impact a space mission to Mars. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. arrow.

Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door

The Alpha Centauri group is the closest star - or solar - system outside of our own at a distance of 4.3 lightyears, and it can be found in the night sky in the constellation Centaurus. The stars Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B comprise a binary system, ...

Nitrogen fertilizers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse

Sustainable farming can reduce nitrous oxide emissions. Credit: eutrophication & hypoxia/Flickr, CC BY-SA. Nitrous oxide (N2O) (more commonly known as laughing gas) is a powerful contributor to global warming. It is 265 times more effective at trapping ...