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Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover’s Samples To Earth If NASA Can’t

Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover’s Samples To Earth If NASA Can’t

Lockheed Martin has announced the details of a proposal to take over NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, tasked with retrieving the samples that the Perseverance rover on the red planet has already collected. These samples have great scientific value, including the possibility of the evidence of life. While originally conceived as an in-house …

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NASA Selects Instruments for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

NASA Selects Instruments for Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

NASA has selected three instruments to travel to the Moon, with two planned for integration onto an LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) and one for a future orbital opportunity. The LTV is part of NASA’s efforts to explore the lunar surface as part of the Artemis campaign and is the first crew-driven vehicle to operate on the Moon in more than …

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Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars

Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 complete pictures — the first …

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NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping – SciTechDaily

NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping  SciTechDaily NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun  NASA Science (.gov) Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight  Live Science These are the closest images of the Sun ever seen. NASA’s Sun-grazing spacecraft gets closer than ever before  BBC Sky at Night Magazine …

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Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought

Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to determine whether humanity could theoretically save itself from a catastrophic asteroid impact. DART collided with Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos, on September …

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NASA considering flying only cargo on next Starliner mission

NASA considering flying only cargo on next Starliner mission

TOKYO — NASA officials say there is a “strong chance” that the next test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle will be uncrewed as work continues to fix issues with the spacecraft. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at …

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NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-11 Mission Set to Launch with International Astronaut Team

NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-11 Mission Set to Launch with International Astronaut Team

NASA and SpaceX are targeting July 31 for the launch of Crew-11, a mission that will carry four astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS). As reported by Space.com, the launch will take place from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the spacecraft’s sixth flight and solidifying its place as one of SpaceX’s most …

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