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The crew’s launch came just weeks after the World Health Organization declared Kovid-19 an epidemic, making him the first crew to launch into space. Cassidy, the current mission 63 mission commander, handed over the reins of the space station to newly arrived Russian cosmonaut Serge Ryazikov during a change of …

Researchers in the United Kingdom studied the diets of more than 25,000 people in the UK and compared what they ate with their blood pressure, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. While other studies have found a link between flavonols and health benefits, this study was the first …

On Tuesday a NASA spacecraft Bennu went down on the hard surface of an asteroid, and caught a sample of post-solar rocks to bring it home. It was the first for the United States – only planets previously sampled by Japan. The so-called “touch-and-go” maneuver in Denver, Colorado, was conducted …

(LR) Spencer Fust, an assistant professor of geology and third-year geology student at the UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, applied a technique developed by the UH Center for Tectonics and Tomography to re-apply the technique. Plato appeared in the Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic era. Credit: University …

During a dress rehearsal in April, the spacecraft sampled hands on a target sample site, known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism. NASA Four years After launching from Earth, NASA’s Osiris-Rex made a historic landing and short landing on a potentially dangerous asteroid Bennu 200 million miles away on Tuesday. …