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12 of the Weirdest X-Plane Designs
X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight—some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was flown by Chuck Yeager in the 1940s and was the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Over the decades,…
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NASA’s Lucy Ready to Explore Its First Asteroid This Week
The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
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NASA’s Partners Are Complicating Plans to Build ISS Replacement
NASA’s plans to retire the International Space Station and replace it with commercial projects are not kaput, they’re just changing. Wrinkles are now appearing in Blue Origin’s plans for Orbital Reef, while Northrop Grumman’s unnamed space station project might not even happen. Ars Technica reports that Northrop Grumman may be ending its contract with NASA…
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NASA Launches Its Own Streaming Platform
The U.S. agency dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration is finally exploring the barest edges of the modern livestreaming era. On Thursday, NASA announced it’s launching a beta for on-demand streaming content through NASA+. Oh, and if you couldn’t already guess, that “+” in the logo is shaped like a little twinkling star.…