space
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Almost 90% of Astronauts Have Been Men, But the Future of Space May be Female
Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 years of human spaceflight, women are still in the territory of “firsts”. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space…
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How to Watch the 2020 Strawberry Moon Eclipse This Weekend in Australia
June brings with it a new astronomical treat and marks the start of another eclipse season for 2020. This month’s Strawberry Moon, or penumbral lunar eclipse, can be viewed on Saturday, 6 June which might make the upcoming long weekend exciting (or not, but more on that later).
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NASA’s Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns Days Before Critical SpaceX Launch Over Unspecified ‘Mistake’
NASA’s associate administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate, Doug Loverro, has abruptly and unexpectedly resigned—after just seven months in that role and just over a week before the first manned test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule.
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Tom Cruise Collaborating With Elon Musk’s SpaceX To Shoot Movie In Space
Dangling out of the side of various types of air vehicles and running forever is apparently no longer enough to rustle Tom Cruise’s jimmies. So naturally, he’s going…to space?