Dr. F. Fatima Ibrahimi has invented a new fusion rocket thuster concept that can give humans power on Mars and beyond. U.S. A physicist working for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) at the Department of Energy designed a rocket that would use a magnetic field to shoot plasma particles …
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Amy and Tony winner Hal Halbrook, the actor best known for his role as Mark Twain, whom he featured on the One-Man show for decades, died on January 23. He was 95 years old. Holbrooke’s personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday night. …
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Finance quietly delayed plans to award two high-profile crew lunar lander contracts for a crucial program under the Trump administration’s hasty period to get astronauts to the moon in 2024. With less congressional funding and a new administration focusing on more national issues, the move was expected. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, …
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On May 10, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will depart from the nearest planet, Bennu, and begin a nearly three-year journey to Earth, NASA officials announced this week. The spacecraft, formally known as Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, has a large sample collected from the surface of asteroids in …
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Earth’s second moon will approach Earth before going into space next week, never to be seen again. “Which other moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that orbited Earth between our planet and the Moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as …
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