After losing out to SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company will get a chance to carry astronauts to the moon’s surface.
Category: Space and Astronomy
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Get Ready to See More of the Northern Lights
Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025.
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Elon Musk: SpaceX’s Out-of-Control Starship Struggled to Self-Destruct
In an update on the first flight of the most powerful rocket ever, Elon Musk offered a timeline of what went wrong while staying optimistic about forthcoming launches.
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Japanese Moon Landing Is Uncertain After Losing Signal Spacecraft
The Japanese company aimed to be the first to change the paradigm for transporting things to the moon, but that will have to wait for a future mission.
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What May Have Been Lost If the Hakuto-R Moon Lander Crashed
The Ispace mission had planned to carry a number of customer payloads to the moon’s surface.
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Starship Explosion a Setback, But Not a Total Failure For SpaceX and Musk
The first flight of the most powerful rocket ever was not the success that Elon Musk and his company hoped for, but the launch achieved several milestones toward future journeys.
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SpaceX Test Launches Its Starship Rocket: How to Watch
The new moon and Mars vehicle built by Elon Musk’s company will conduct a test flight to space as early as Monday morning.
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A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’
The New York Times – Business:A small company, Astrolab, announced a deal with SpaceX to send a robotic version of its transport vehicle to the lunar surface and help deploy other company’s payloads.
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Relativity Space’s 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Just After Launch
The New York Times – Business:Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle experienced problems during the second stage of its flight.
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Space Is Getting a New Look
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:NASA and Axiom Space have unveiled the first major spacesuit redesign in four decades. Astronauts are getting hip.
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When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood
The New York Times – Travel:An enigmatic photograph by America’s most famous landscape photographer led to a forensic hunt to identify exactly when and where it was taken.
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31 Hours Inside SpaceX Mission Control
The New York Times – Travel:A reporter got an inside look at SpaceX’s attempt to launch and land three rockets in less than two days in October, part of the company’s bid to make spaceflight appear almost routine.