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The next quarter-century promises to be action-packed, with humanity taking ever-greater leaps into the final frontier - perhaps all the way to the moon and Mars. Predicting the future is a fool's errand, but let's do so anyway. Here's a look at a few of the big-picture spaceflight trends that seem set to unfold between now and 2049.
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, recently named backup for the Artemis 2 round-the-moon flight scheduled for 2025, finished a standard spacesuit fit check in the agency's orange outfit. Douglas was named to the mission last month following a career in the U.S. Coast Guard and also the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL), where he served on spacecraft missions such as the asteroid-slamming Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021 and passed his basic training in March 2024. Weeks later, Douglas performed moonwalking simulations using spacesuit prototypes at the San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona.
The next El Niño Southern Oscillation can be predicted more than two years in advance, according to a new study that looked at thousands of years of past climate data.
NASA will perform its own re-authorization of SpaceX's Falcon 9 before the rocket launches its next astronaut crew or cargo mission, the agency confirmed Wednesday (July 17).
On July 13, which is Sol 1208 on Mars, the Perseverance rover's Right Mastcam-Z camera spotted an area with several rock formations during its daily investigation of the Red Planet's surface. It dutifully delivered a photo to Earth. If you look closely, as we did here at Space.com, you might notice that in the bottom left corner of the photo, there's a stack of rocks that resembles a baby snowman!
Summertime is usually a season where a cool dip in the water is a soothing affair, but after watching this new "Alien: Romulus" final launch trailer that just arrived from 20th Century Studios you might want to rethink sticking your toes into any sort of opaque liquid substance!
