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The Crew-5 mission is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (Oct. 5) from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, and team members have been checking off boxes in the leadup.
Case in point: These amazing photos from the mission's Falcon 9 rocket at the launch pad.
A new stunning image shows that two days after NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the space rock had grown a tail of glowing debris extending thousands of miles.
The comet-like tail is made of dust and debris was blasted from the surface of Dimorphos, part of a double asteroid system, by the intentional impact of DART, the first mission designed to test whether such a collision could divert a hypothetical asteroid threatening to hit Earth.
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Satellites have revealed the scale of destruction wreaked by Hurricane Ian over Florida last week, but their images also show glimpses of recovery as lights can be seen coming back on where power has already been restored after widespread outages.
According to a new study, Earth-like planets with about 30% of their surface covered by exposed continental land may make up only 1% of rocky worlds in stars' habitable zones.
Instead of seeking "pale blue dots" like Earth, we might be better off looking for "pale yellow dots."
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She set sail as a U.S. Navy research vessel, shipped out as postage stamp, entered circulation on the reverse of a coin and stood tall as a monument. Now, America's first woman in space is set to return to Earth orbit as the namesake of a space station-bound cargo capsule.
Northrop Grumman has christened its NG-18 Cygnus resupply spacecraft the "S.S. Sally Ride."
The first husband-wife team to fly on Blue Origin will make a return to space.
Sharon Hagle, founder of the non-profit SpaceKids Global, will fly to suborbital space alongside husband Marc during a future Blue Origin flight. (The timing for the flight has not been disclosed after an anomaly during an uncrewed flight last month.)
North Korea just conducted one of its most provocative missile tests yet, according to media reports.
The country sent a missile into space that flew over Japan Tuesday, prompting South Korea and the United States to send fighter jets aloft in an exercise off the Korean coast.
