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Artemis II beams first Earth photos as crew races to the moon

The Artemis II crew sent back the mission's first photos of Earth from the Orion capsule as they travel toward a planned lunar flyby, marking the return of astronauts to lunar space after more than 50 years.

5 hours ago · United States · 22 articles

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NASA's Artemis II fires engines and heads for the moon

After a Florida launch, Orion completed a less-than-six-minute trans-lunar burn to send four Artemis II astronauts toward the moon, with onboard issues including a toilet fault later resolved.

17 hours ago · United States · 33 articles

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Neil Armstrong's Hidden Moon Artifacts Included the Camera That Filmed First Steps

A Temporary Stowage Bag called the McDivitt Purse was found in Neil Armstrong's closet in 2014 containing 18 items from Apollo 11, including the 16mm camera that filmed the first moonwalk.

4 hours ago · United States · 4 articles

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China watches Artemis 2 after onboard toilet malfunctions

NASA sent Artemis 2 on a 10-day crewed lunar fly-by that encountered a toilet malfunction hours after launch, and experts say China is closely observing the mission for technical insights as it advances its own moon program.

10 hours ago · China · 5 articles

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NASA unveils decade plan of frequent lunar missions to prepare Moon base

NASA outlined a three phase campaign of dozens of launches and hundreds of thousands of pounds of cargo over the next decade to survey sites, deploy infrastructure, and enable a sustained human presence on the Moon.

22 hours ago · United States · 7 articles

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'Nothing normal about this' as Artemis II completes translunar burn

NASA's Artemis II astronauts contacted Earth by video on April 2 to describe their experience shortly after a successful translunar injection burn that set them on course for a lunar flyby.

11 hours ago · United States · 4 articles

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Total solar eclipse sweeps across North America on April 8, 2024

Millions watched as the Moon fully blocked the Sun along a path of totality on April 8, 2024, prompting scientific observations, public viewing events and official safety guidance.

22 hours ago · United States · 6 articles

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Startup raises $60 million claiming new particle can dim the Sun

Stardust Solutions says it has a scalable, low-cost aerosol for solar geoengineering but has not revealed the particle and is seeking regulators and governments as customers.

7 hours ago · United States · 3 articles

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Gravitational-wave data show evidence for pair-instability supernovas

A study of 153 black hole mergers finds a mass gap from about 44 to 116 solar masses, consistent with theorized pair-instability supernovas in the most massive stars that completely destroy themselves and leave no black hole.

7 hours ago · United States · 3 articles

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Rise: the plush carrying 5.6 million names aboard Artemis 2

Rise, designed by a US second grader and picked from thousands of global entries, serves as Artemis 2's zero gravity indicator and carries a microSD with 5,647,889 registered names.

16 hours ago · United States · 3 articles

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University unveils 30-story floating research island for deep-sea science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University will build a 30-story semi-submersible research platform that can host 238 people, house six research centers, reach 10,000-meter research depth, and is due to complete construction by 2030.

22 hours ago · China · 3 articles