The Perseverance Mars rover is traveling through its initial checkout and activation, retrieving some 7,000 photos to date, releasing its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive after a post-landing software upgrade, engineers said Friday. Robert Hogg, deputy mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, …
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NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have agreed, among other things, to include a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis II mission, which is envisaged to take four astronauts around the moon in 2023, Space Policy reports Online reports. Artemis II will be ahead of Artemis The third year is the …
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China on Monday launched its most ambitious lunar mission yet: a robotic spacecraft is expected to land on the lunar surface by the end of the week. About 4 pounds of rock and soil samples will be collected by the spacecraft and they are expected to return to Earth next …
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Arizona State Senator candidate Captain Mark Kelly has an impressive resume. He flew combat missions during Operation Desert Storm. Twice as a mission commander he flew four times on the space shuttle. However, Kelly’s views on space policy, a topic he should be familiar with, given his previous occupation, are …
Read More »A mockup of Blue Origin’s lunar lander. Image: Blue origin A team led by Blue Origin delivered a full-scale mockup of the moon lander that could carry NASA astronauts to the moon in 2024. American astronauts are expected to take orbits to the moon in four years (which a very …
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