Ax-2 astronauts can't wait for May 21 SpaceX launch
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A moon lander built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will be the second system that takes NASA astronauts to the lunar surface, agency officials announced today (May 19).
The four crewmembers of the second-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) are eager to leave their home planet behind, at least for a little while. "To say I'm excited to be here would be a gross understatement."
SpaceX is gearing up for another test of its giant Starship vehicle. The company rolled Ship 25, the latest Starship upper-stage prototype, out to a suborbital pad at its Starbase site in South Texas early Thursday morning (May 18).
With Celestron's Starsense software, finding celestial objects becomes a breeze, eliminating the need for complex star maps or bright reference stars. Priced at $399, it offers great value for its intermediate-level features.
The first person to walk on Mars may be a kid in school today. Here's some key advice from a NASA legend headed to the moon. The takeaway? "Do what scares you," she says.
These black holes are nicknamed 'blazars' because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth. The extreme environments of black holes are perfect to test physics to its limit, one of the study authors said in a statement.
SpaceX launched 22 of its "V2 mini" Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Friday morning (May 19) and landed the returning rocket at sea. The launch was the first of a planned doubleheader for SpaceX on Friday morning.
SpaceX aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying satellites for OneWeb and Iridium early Friday just under a minute before liftoff. The abort occurred 55 seconds before the planned launch.
Floating islands are long-standing tropes in science fiction books and plots. Avatar, Astro Boy and Elysium brought these flying worlds to our screens. Buckminster Fuller, Jonathan Swift and Isaac Asimov wrote about them in incredible stories. But what about in real life?
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