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Blue Origin mimics moon gravity on 1st-of-its-kind New Shepard research rocket launch (video)
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Blue Origin mimics moon gravity on 1st-of-its-kind New Shepard research rocket launch (video)

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space.The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, sent its reusable New Shepard suborbital vehicle aloft today (Feb. 4) from its West Texas launch site at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT; 10 a.m. local Texas time). That was a week later than originally planned; Blue Origin stood down from a Jan. 28 attempt due to uncooperative weather and an issue with the rocket's avionics.Today's launch kicked off Blue Origin's uncrewed NS-29 mission, so named because it was the 29th New Shepard flight to date. The flight went well, with both booster and capsule returning to Earth for safe touchdowns. However, one of the New Shepard crew capsule's three parachutes appeared not to open fully during descent. But during the company's lives...
Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?
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Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?

An illustration shows two faces of Mars a hot and arid wasteland and as a cold water ice rich enviroment (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) New research suggests that temperatures on ancient Mars may have fluctuated between hot and cold periods through a relatively short period during its lifetime of billions of years. But these hot and cold spells may have been detrimental to life if it existed on the Red Planet.Mars may be a dry and arid planet today, but scientists know that Earth's neighbor was much wetter and much more like our planet in its ancient past.These new findings from a team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) suggest how Mars may have sustained its warmth and held on to its water billions of years ...
Trump Announces Mission to Send Astronauts to Mars
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Trump Announces Mission to Send Astronauts to Mars

Home" Military" Trump Announces Mission to Send Astronauts to Mars Trump stated "We will pursue our manifest fate into the stars by releasing American astronauts to plant destiny and Stripes on earth Mars". Elon Musk's response to Trump stating today: "We will pursue our manifest fate into the stars by releasing American astronauts to plant destiny and Stripes in the world Mars." pic.twitter.com/XMLQC2OTuu -- Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) January 20, 2025 This is the creator of SpaceX. It's clear that this guy is really major to safeguard the little light of awareness of people and extended it to other worlds. He likewise informed me that I would get to Mars one day. The objective will be finished. His name is Elon Musk! pic.twitter.com/LTcKLHIqcE -- Teslaconomics (@Teslacon...
Bruja Tarotscope: February Tarot Horoscopes For Every Zodiac Sign
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Bruja Tarotscope: February Tarot Horoscopes For Every Zodiac Sign

We start the month with 2 worlds turning direct out of their retrograde transits, both Uranus and Jupiter bring a sense of peace for the winter season. Mars is still retrograde in Cancer at the start of the month, wreaking psychological havoc. This is the time to clear out the corners of your mind, in order to flush stagnant sensations that you've been harboring from ghosts of the past. You might certainly feel extremely delicate this month, and incredibly compassionate. Think about the sufficient strings of synchronicities a symptom of this transit, assisting you reroute your focus towards more efficient methods to sit with the alchemy of unfavorable psychological undercurrents. The flamboyant Leo moon marks the peak of Aquarius season on Feb. 12. This will serve as a cathartic lunar stag...
NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk
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NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk

For almost half a century, NASA has actually been talking a terribly great video game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) job. As long earlier as 1978, the area company asked for moneying to establish an objective that would see an uncrewed spacecraft arrive on the Red Planet, gather and cache samples of rock and soil, and bring them back to Earth for research study-- all without the danger and expenditure of sending out human teams out to do the spelunking. Tight budget plans and tough innovation suggested that it was not up until 2009 that NASA, in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), lastly got the objective rolling.Even then, it would take 12 years for the very first stage of MSR to at last fly. On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover arrived on Mars and s...
SpaceX puts together the world’s biggest rocket for Starship Flight 7 test launch (pictures)
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SpaceX puts together the world’s biggest rocket for Starship Flight 7 test launch (pictures)

SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 "Ship" is stacked atop its Super Heavy booster for a prepared launch on Jan. 13, 2025 at the business's Starbase center in South Texas. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's next Starship to fly is all dressed up for launch.On Friday (Jan. 10), SpaceX effectively stacked its Starship spacecraft atop a huge Super Heavy booster to get ready for the next launch of the world's biggest rocket next week. Liftoff is set for 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Monday (Jan. 13) from SpaceX's Starbase test website near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas."Flight 7 Starship and Super Heavy stacked on the launch pad at Starbase," SpaceX composed in a post on the social networks website X on Friday.SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 objective will check a brand-new variation of Starship and is the ve...
SpaceX to introduce Starship megarocket’s Flight 7 test objective on Jan. 13
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SpaceX to introduce Starship megarocket’s Flight 7 test objective on Jan. 13

SpaceX's upper-stage Starship spacecraft inside a garage at the business's Starbase center in South Texas. SpaceX published this picture on X on Jan. 8, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Starship will fly for the seventh time ever early next week, if all goes according to strategy.SpaceX revealed today (Jan. 8) that it's targeting Monday (Jan. 13) for Flight 7 of Starship, the 400-foot-tall (122 meters), totally recyclable megarocket developed to assist mankind settle the moon and Mars.Starship is set up to take off Monday at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) from Starbase, SpaceX's production and launch website in South Texas. You'll have the ability to enjoy the action live; the business will webcast the flight starting about 35 minutes before liftoff.Starship has actually flown 6 times to d...
Can NASA’s struggling Mars Sample Return objective be conserved?
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Can NASA’s struggling Mars Sample Return objective be conserved?

The now banned NASA Mars Sample Return architecture used a set of makers, consisting of usage of helicopters, to gather Martian soil, rock and climatic specimens for go back to Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) There seems an informal robotic area race underway including the Red Planet. Both the U.S. and China are scripting methods for bringing goodies back to Earth from Mars through their particular Mars Sample Return (MSR) ventures.For America, things are presently occurring in real-time on Mars. NASA's Perseverance rover is busily wheeling about within the ins and outs of Jezero Crater, biting into and nabbing primo portions of Mars for ultimate pick-up by a future MSR objective. Early on, for NASA, the area company discovered itself captured in between a Mars rock and a monet...