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Planes on Titan and pipelines on the Moon: NASA envisions some wild future technologies

Planes on Titan and pipelines on the Moon: NASA envisions some wild future technologies

The TitanAir concept to explore Titan, Saturn’s moon. Drawing: Quinn Morley The future of space exploration requires big ideas, and NASA has no objection to considering some of the biggest ideas out there. The space agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program exists for precisely this purpose, and it has chosen the next generation of concepts …

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Astronauts will share a painfully cramped space aboard the future lunar space station

Astronauts will share a painfully cramped space aboard the future lunar space station

An illustration of the Lunar Gateway orbiting the Moon.Drawing: Nasa The architects designing living space for them Coming G lunarateway did its best to make it comfortable for the astronauts, but technical constraints forced them to create a tiny and noisy hallway without windows and barely enough room to standright. The European-built international habitat, or …

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SpaceX Exec tells NASA not to worry about Musk's Twitter meltdowns

SpaceX Exec tells NASA not to worry about Musk’s Twitter meltdowns

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he spoke to SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell and was told not to worry about owner Elon Musk being politicized on Twitter.Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Billionaire Elon Musk owns SpaceX, one of the United States’ most important private partners for their ongoing space efforts. Musk also owns Twitter, one of …

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Lunar ship Artemis returns to Earth with a perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean

Lunar ship Artemis returns to Earth with a perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean

from NASA Artemis 1 moon ship returned to Earth on Sunday, crashing into the upper atmosphere at over 24,000 mph and enduring a 5,000 degree re-entry hell before settling into a perfect dip in the Pacific Ocean to close out a test flight of 25 days of 1.4 million miles to the moon and back. …

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Artemis 1 spacecraft heads into Sunday's splashdown to wrap up historic mission

Artemis 1 spacecraft heads into Sunday’s splashdown to wrap up historic mission

Capping off a 25-day trip around the moon, NASA’s Artemis 1 spacecraft edged closer to Earth on Saturday, on track for a 25,000mph re-entry on Sunday that will subject the unmanned capsule to hellish hell of 5,000 degrees before splashing off Baja California. In an unexpected but symbolic coincidence, the end of the Artemis 1 …

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NASA's Orion spacecraft will crash off the coast of San Diego this weekend.  Meet the team tasked with recovering it

NASA’s Orion spacecraft will crash off the coast of San Diego this weekend. Meet the team tasked with recovering it

While Florida, Texas and Pasadena, California are often the epicenter of NASA’s space world here on Earth, San Diego will have its moonlit moment when the Orion spacecraft completes its final leg of the Artemis mission. I Sunday. Orion – the capsule that will one day carry America’s first woman and first person of color …

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What's next for the Orion spacecraft as it heads for the Moon

What’s next for the Orion spacecraft as it heads for the Moon

Artist’s rendering of Orion passing in front of the Moon, with an Earthrise in the background. Drawing: Nasa from NASA The Space Launch System lifted off on Wednesday, sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back. Orion is expected to reach its destination early next week, when it will …

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NASA is preparing for the third attempt to launch the Artemis rocket to the Moon

NASA is preparing for the third attempt to launch the Artemis rocket to the Moon

After repeated fuel leaks, two hurricanes and a pair of launch delays, engineers had refueled NASA’s $4.1 billion Space Launch System rocket for a third launch attempt early Wednesday. The Artemis 1 launch would kick off a long-awaited maiden flight to send an uncrewed Orion capsule to circle the moon. NASA set the launch time …

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