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NASA's endeavor to return humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo program with the Artemis 3 mission will likely be delayed because it is jeopardized by "multiple challenges" and an ambitious schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced Thursday (Nov. 30).
The unpiloted cargo ship, called Progress 86, docked to the station's Russian-built Poisk module under remote control by Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who tracked its approach from inside the ISS.
During December, Jupiter dominates the evening sky, while Venus continues to serve as a beacon in the predawn morning sky. While dimmer than Jupiter, Saturn too is conspicuous in the southern sky at nightfall.
This mission will be one for the history books for several reasons, one of which is the fact it'll be the first to launch under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, created as a way for the agency to bring payloads to the moon without having to construct all the spacecraft necessary to bring those payloads there.
In our solar system we have rocky moons (e.g. Earth's moon), ocean moons (e.g. Europa and Enceladus) and frozen-ice moons (e.g. Triton) but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have any gas moons, or are there physical reasons why they cannot exist?
As "For All Mankind" has moved through the decades, it's evolved from an alternative universe version of the Apollo era to bona fide science fiction territory.
Its indomitable influence over pop culture has been well documented and shown to occupy every corner our modern digital age, especially the flexible English language.
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