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A pair of spacecraft have arrived in Florida ahead of their launch on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket and a voyage to the Red Planet. Launch and space systems company Rocket Lab delivered the twin ESCAPADE (“Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers”) spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday (Sept. 22). The twin probes, named Blue and …

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin was the sole bidder for a NASA task order that revived a canceled lunar rover mission. NASA announced Sept. 19 it had selected Blue Origin to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, to the moon’s south polar region in late 2027. The rover will fly on the second mission of Blue Origin’s Blue …

Second showings Outside of Levi, forwards Mason Geertsen and Konsta Helenius are the lone players from Monday’s win in Columbus who are scheduled to be in Tuesday’s lineup. Geertsen – who signed a two-year, two-way deal this summer – has consistently been with the NHL group in practice sessions. Ruff, who coached Geertsen previously in New Jersey, praised Geertsen’s conditioning …

Usually when an alchemist shows up promising to turn rocks into gold, you should run the other way. Sure, rocket fuel isn’t gold, but on the moon it’s worth more than its weight in the yellow stuff. So there would be reason to be skeptical if this “Blue Alchemist” was actually an alchemist, and not a chemical reactor under development …

On Friday, Blue Origin won a major NASA contract to deliver a lunar rover to the moon, a strong vote of confidence in both the Blue Moon lander and the future of human exploration. The contract also means that the VIPER rover will finally see the lunar surface after NASA shelved the entire program last year due to delays and …

The new guys This offseason, the Sabres added the versatile Kesselring to their blue line. They acquired the 23-year-old Doan, a tenacious forechecker with strong offensive potential, and they signed the 32-year-old Danforth to be a reliable, bottom-six forward. Geertsen brings size and snarl to the lineup. Mrtka, drafted ninth overall, has instantly become one of the organization’s most intriguing …

PARIS — NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover mission by selecting Blue Origin to deliver it to the moon’s south pole in 2027. NASA announced Sept. 19 that Blue Origin won a $190 million task order under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program to take the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, to the moon in …

The Blue Jays must have felt like the weakened villain at the end of a superhero movie who’s getting absolutely pummeled. Hulk/Loki at the end of The Avengers comes to mind. They may have landed the first blow, a leadoff homer from George Springer, but that was the last punch the Blue Jays landed the whole game. Otherwise, they were …

VIPER has officially come back from the dead. The NASA moon robot, whose name is short for “Volatiles Investigating Polar Explorer Rover,” will hitch a ride to the lunar surface with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in late 2027, agency officials announced this afternoon. “NASA is leading the world in exploring more of the moon than ever before, and this delivery …

As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface and collect science data to …