Tag: space
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NASA Mars rover completes preflight checks ahead of this week’s launch
NASA’s Perseverance rover headed for Mars this week formally cleared all essential Flight Readiness Reviews, pushing the mission one step closer to its launch pad rollout along with liftoff. Launch supplier ULA (United Launch Alliance) declared the landmark earlier today. “The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) has given the consent to keep preparations for Thursday’s liftoff…
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SpaceX fan creates LEGO Crew Dragon spacecraft, and it’s pretty awesome
SpaceX made history this year with its Crew Dragon Endeavor mission in becoming the first private astronaut transportation service, and now superfans can help bring a 1:35 scale version of the spacecraft used to stores as an official LEGO product. The successful mission, named DM-2 (Demo 2), hurled veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley…
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SpaceX gives behind-the-scenes look at their spacesuit lab in new video
With Crew Dragon’s manned launch behind them along with the astronauts place to return to Earth this weekend, SpaceX has a good deal. Their space matches donned throughout the assignment have been a big part of what makes the business ’s approach to spaceflight unique. Today, a movie has been published, giving a look in…
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Famous Mars meteorite discovered with interesting, new organics
Scientists are studying Mars in a new way. That ’ s as something fascinating: traces of nitrogen has been revealed by a new evaluation of a part of the red world. Nitrogen, together with molecules — carbon-rich molecules that are considered the building blocks of existence as we know it — have been spotted from…
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Elon Musk reportedly tells SpaceX’s 7,000 employees in email to shift their focus to the rocket designed to eventually take people to the moon — and Mars
Kim Shiflett/NASA Elon Musk told his employees in an internal email that SpaceX will focus on Starship as its primary goal, according to CNBC. The most recent Starship test generated a prototype to explode a day before SpaceX successfully launched two astronauts to the International Space Station using a different enemy, the Falcon 9. Musk’s…
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SpaceX rocket ship blasts off on historic flight
CAPE CANAVERAL: A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a brand new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back into the company of launching astronauts into orbit out of U.S. land for the very first time in almost a…
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SpaceX’s First Crewed Launch Was Scrubbed. Here’s the Next Possible Launch Window
(Cape Canaveral, Fla.) — The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit has been called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown because of the danger of lightning. Liftoff is rescheduled for Saturday. The spacecraft was set to blast off Wednesday afternoon for the…
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NASA revives “worm” logo and debuts SpaceX spacesuits
NASA will utilize the Danne & Blackburn-designed”worm” symbol for the very first time since 1992, while its astronauts will introduction SpaceX spacesuits when the Demo-2 flight to the International Space Station starts tomorrow. The astronauts will be carried aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft, signaling the very first time that astronauts will…
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SpaceX is about to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its Crew Dragon spaceship. Here’s what to expect.
SpaceX via NASA Twenty years later Elon Musk based SpaceX, the rocket business is preparing to start its very first people. On Wednesday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship in planning to ride it to space beneath a Falcon 9 rocket. The Demo-2 test mission for NASA will be…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to send NASA astronauts on a space mission
The two astronauts who will finish a nine-year launch drought for NASA came at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, just 1 week prior to their SpaceX flight. It will be the first time a private business, instead of a federal government, sends astronauts. Elon Musk Also ReadReady to create ventilators for all those suffering acutely…