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There are 6 planets align on January 21
The red planet Mars will appear in the night sky on December 21 as it reaches opposition with the Earth. This happens when the Earth and the Sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. The next alignment of five or more planets will not happen until after 2040, even though there are…
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Boeing’s Starliner isn’t returning to Earth yet, but they are not stuck
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said on Friday that Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which hasn’t performed a flight since last year, “isn’t stuck”. This comes after reports claimed Boeing and NASA were at odds over the astronauts’ ability to return to Earth after a test flight failed due to a shortage of helium. “We’re not stuck,” McNerney…
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China has recently returned the first ever samples from the far side of the moon
China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft has returned to Earth with the first samples taken from the far side of the Moon. China plans to send its Chang’e 7 spacecraft to the Moon’s south pole in 2026 to search for water and other resources that could potentially support long-term missions on the Moon. The Chang’e 6 probe…
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Take a peek at what NASA brought back from the asteroid
NASA has released pictures of the black rocks and dust brought back from an asteroid by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in September. OSIRIS-REx mission had sent a spacecraft to asteroid Bennu, 100 million miles away, in 2020 and returned it to Earth in September. “We’ve already thrilled with the results,” Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for…
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The Mars rover will be the first to deliver samples to Earth.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is set to send back the first-ever sample returns from Mars, including four volcanically derived rocks that were collected by the roving Perseverance spacecraft. Samples will also be sent back to Earth to be used to determine the age of rocks from a particular place on Mars. Mars Ascent Vehicle…
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There was a failure of healthcare and parasites on parade.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which flew to the Moon and returned on Thursday, has flown on more than 100 missions since it entered human orbit in 2011. NASA is planning to send it back to the Moon for the first time ever in 2021 after its successful test flight earlier this year. It’s scheduled to return…
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NASA has a new version of the 1995 Hubble image of a star nursery.
NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (J Webb) on Tuesday. The telescopes will be used to detect exoplanets, which are found in the close vicinity of Earth and have not been examined by space telescopes before. They’ll also look for dust and gas clouds that block the light coming from exoplanets. “It’s the world’s…
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Half- Earth Day is not a celebration according to an opinion.
The “Half-Earth Project” is a global movement by the late biologist and Harvard University professor, E.O Wilson, to tackle the issue of global biodiversity loss. The project involves indigenous communities, who’ve traditionally balanced human needs with nature, to work together towards a durable plan for our future. Wilson had coined the term “half Earth” to…
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What will happen to the Moon Capsule after it is back?
The Orion capsule will return to Earth in a few days after it successfully landed on the Moon on Wednesday. NASA has decided to keep the capsule in an air-to-surface area of the Pacific Ocean until conditions are right to send it back. “The next big test…is the heat shield,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson had…