Japan's Resilience lunar lander prepares for 1st swing around the moon
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The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace is ready for a flyby of the moon as part of its elongated moon landing journey, which still has some months to go.
The second launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket could be just a few months away. The company still hasn't announced what payload(s) will fly on New Glenn's second launch, and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company is "still looking for opportunities."
In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, or Super Heavy booster, and second stage, also known simply as "Ship." As such, things have been busy down in Starbase, Texas, at SpaceX's Starship manufacturing and test facilities.
China's human spaceflight agency has unveiled official names for a spacesuit and rover to be used in the country's moon landing mission before the end of the decade.
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars -- rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to sit on the tip of a needle. Now, scientists are preparing for the next step: cataloguing these samples before potentially bringing them home with NASA's Mars Sample Return program.
On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system! Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Famed astronomer Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out. The picture is actually a mosaic that combines sixty frames. It shows Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Earth, which showed up as a tiny speck now famously known as the Pale Blue Dot.
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