Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists on suborbital trip | NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is 'go' for 1st fueling test | Hyperactive sunspot just hurled a huge X-class solar flare
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Blue Origin's fourth crewed spaceflight is in the books. A New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas on Thursday, carrying a crew of six people to suborbital space. "It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," passenger Sharon Hagle said on exiting the capsule.
NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is ready for its next close-up. The so-called "wet dress rehearsal" fueling test will run this weekend from April 1 to April 3.
The hotbed of sun activity, known officially as AR2975, sent out a powerful X-class flare that has already created a temporary blackout in shortwave radio signals in the Americas on Wednesday.
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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei can't wait to see his wife after landing back on Earth after a record-breaking 355-day space mission. "I promised my wife I will not be flying to space again, so that will be bittersweet."
Stafford, now 91, said that when it came to Apollo-Soyuz, the NASA astronauts "just approached it in a very professional manner." And, while Stafford didn't reveal much of what was said between the astronauts and cosmonauts during the nine-day mission, he said simply: "It went great."
(NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI))
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a debris cloud's size suggests that the dust was formed when two bodies the size of dwarf planets smashed together a few hundred light-years away from us.
China has established a deep-space exploration laboratory here on Earth to support the development of the country's growing plans for lunar and planetary missions.
The NanoSat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System, or NACHOS, is the first-ever cubesat-based hyperspectral imaging system that can compete with traditional large-satellite instruments in chemical detection applications.
The "magnetically complex" sunspot called 2975 has spurted out about 20 solar flares over the past days including an X-class flare that blasted from the sun at 1:37 pm EDT (0537 GMT) on Wednesday.
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