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NASA Showcases Orion Spacecraft Trio for Future Crewed Artemis Moon Missions
The crew modules for NASA’s Artemis 2, 3 and 4 missions are currently stationed next to one another at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the three spacecraft undergoing different stages of production for their upcoming launch dates. NASA recently shared a group photo of its Orion crew capsules inside the high bay of…
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Triple-Core Rockets and ‘Doughnuts’ on Mars: Marvel at the Best Spaceflight Imagery From June
There’s plenty of smoke in the air — and not just from Canada’s raging wildfires. Indeed, the past month was witness to a steady cadence of rocket launches and rocket tests, all spewing out excitement and hope. At the same time, probes already working in space beamed back evidence of their important work.
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Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
On Sunday, four researchers donned black jumpsuits and entered into a red world where they will spend a year living and working in a simulated Martian environment. NASA’s CHAPEA habitat, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue, welcomed its volunteer guests this week, who are set to spend 378 days in the enclosed, Mars-like world…
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Mars Looks Gorgeous in New Images Taken by NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA’s Martian explorer, MAVEN, captured Earth’s neighbouring planet in fascinating detail, revealing the changing seasons on Mars as it orbits around the Sun.