The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA’s last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
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What to know about Artemis II’s ‘wet dress rehearsal’
As astronauts prepare to fly around the moon, critical testing must occur before there is “Go” for launch.
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Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on lunar lander
Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it’s stopping human spaceflights for at least two years. The move will allow it to “shift resources” to the company’s lunar landing capabilities.
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Russia sends 3 Iranian satellites into orbit, report says
The report said that a Russian rocket sent the satellites on Sunday from a launchpad in eastern Russia.
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What to know about Jared Isaacman, the billionaire private astronaut leading NASA
Trump withdrew Isaacman’s nomination in May, citing the billionaire’s donations to Democrats and ties to Elon Musk. He was renominated last month and confirmed by a 67-30 Senate vote on Wednesday.
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At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is solved
A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen.
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Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited
The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas surrounding it.
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NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here’s what that means.
NASA is accelerating plans to have a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.
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More than 3,000 Boeing workers are set to strike after rejecting a contract offer
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union members in Missouri and Illinois rejected a modified contract offered by Boeing last week.
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NASA spots a new comet flying in from a distant star system
The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it about galaxies far, far away.
