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A private company will build and launch NASA's next Mars orbiter in 2028 — and it's not SpaceX

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where ...
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NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles alone in the desert

NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles autonomously in 37 hours, moving 10x faster than Perseverance in a test that could reshape ...

Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher

ERNEST, short for Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain, is a small prototype rover built to be more ...

NASA blames 'hero mode' culture for $4.6 million dish disaster

'Willing to do whatever it takes': how a quick fix became a calamity.
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NASA is racing to save a telescope before it falls to Earth

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been hunting gamma-ray bursts from orbit since 2004. But atmospheric drag is now ...
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Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter

We felt there was a very high probability of a bad outcome happening if they sawed that bracket off." The post Tension Flared ...

NASA’s Artemis mission’s one small step closer to mankind’s giant leap back to landing on the moon

NASA’s Artemis III mission is set to launch in late 2027, with the goal of establishing a permanently inhabited moon base and ...

NASA reveals Artemis III crew that will take the next big step on its journey back to the moon

NASA announced the four astronauts that will join the next Artemis mission — a test flight vital to putting astronauts back ...

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA plans a mission to rescue it

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to ...

This Artist Had The Rare Opportunity To Tattoo Members Of NASA’s Historic Artemis II Mission

Most tattoo appointments take place in studios, convention halls, or private workspaces. On June 5, however, tattoo artist ...
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The NASA-Relativity deal hands a private rocket a science mission for the first time

NASA has selected Relativity Space to fly a dedicated planetary-science mission to Mars, the first time a privately developed ...