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NASA asteroid sample capsule lands safely in Utah
NASA’s asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx has landed on asteroid Bennu. It’s the first time that NASA has brought back a sample from an asteroid, but it is following in the footsteps of the Japanese space agency JAXA, which collected two asteroid samples in its Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 missions. The asteroid material collected by…
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Private Moon mission prepares for historic landing attempt
UAE’s first lunar mission M1 is scheduled to launch on March 14 with JAXA’s JAXA Rashid rover. Both the rovers are expected to travel to the Moon’s Atlas crater and study lunar soil and geology. “This is a region that no previous lunar missions have explored,” said Hamid AlNaimiy, an astrophysicist at the University of…
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International astronauts are going to the space station
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who was the first woman to travel to space, will be joined by fellow astronauts Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata of Japan’s space agency JAXA, and Anna Kikina, a Roscomos cosmonaut, in NASA’s upcoming Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station. This will be NASA’s third Crew-6 mission to the space station.