Washington DC (UPI) Jul 2, 2024
The first volunteer crew, to live for more than a year inside NASA’s Mars habitat at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, will exit the simulated Red Planet ground mission on Saturday.
Crew members Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones will be greeted with a short welcome ceremony at about 5 p.m. EDT, which can be viewed on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app and
Throughout the last few weeks, several events in Chinese spaceflight have created international headlines. After…
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There’s an almost 3D quality to this image of a portion of the Milky Way, with the illusion that the nebulae are far more distant when in fact they are much closer than the dark dust lanes that meander through the Milky Way.
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Moving into the second half of 2024, the first week of July has already begun…
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Paris (AFP) July 2, 2024
Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket is set for its first-ever launch next week, carrying with it the continent’s hopes of regaining independent access to space and fending off soaring competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
After four years of delays, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) most powerful rocket yet is finally due to blast off from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 3:00 pm (180
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Artificial intelligence technologies have achieved remarkable successes and continue to show their value as backbones in scientific research and real-world applications.ESA’s new Φsat-2 mission, launching in the coming weeks, will push the boundaries of AI for Earth observation – demonstrating the transformative potential of AI for space technology.
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