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NASA clears Axiom group for a first private mission to ISS

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

The astronauts sending off with the first private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) one year from now have cleared all their medical evaluations. NASA and its international…

Blue Origin launches NFL veteran Michael Strahan, five others into space

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

Football star and TV celebrity Michael Strahan got a ride to space with Jeff Bezos’ rocket-launching organization Saturday, sharing the trip with the daughter of America’s first astronaut. Blue Origin’s…

China’s lunar rover detects secretive “hut” on the far side of the moon

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

China’s Yutu 2 rover has recognized a strange object portrayed as a “hut” or “house” on the most distant side of the moon, as indicated by a new log of…

Researchers say xenobots, world’s first living robots, can reproduce

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

Researchers who made xenobots, the world’s first living robots, say the living things are “the first-ever, self-replicating living robots.” The little organisms were initially revealed in 2020. The robots were…

SpaceX propels Starlink satellites in the wake of improving user antennas

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

SpaceX effectively sent another 53 Starlink satellites Nov. 13 in its first dedicated launch for the broadband star constellation in two months. A Falcon 9 carrying its most recent batch…

Amazon intends to launch its first internet satellites in late 2022

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

Amazon expects to launch its first Project Kuiper internet satellites in the final quarter of 2022, the organization declared Monday. The technology giant filed a request with the Federal Communications…

NASA astronauts pick peppers in space for the first time on ISS

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

Humans introduced a new life form with space on Friday as NASA astronauts collected the first-ever chile peppers onboard the International Space Station. The Hatch chile pepper seeds showed up…

NASA reassigns 2 space explorers from Boeing’s Starliner to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

Two space explorers expected to fly on early missions of Boeing’s team container will rather ride to circle with SpaceX, NASA declared today (Oct. 6). The office has reassigned space…

NASA plans ‘Armageddon’- style mission to collide with asteroid’s moon

Posted on October 6, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

NASA is a making a page out of the move flick “Armageddon” – by launching a spaceship to wallop an asteroid’s moon in a test to avoid an asteroid undermining…

NASA’s Mars helicopter encounters ‘anomaly,’ deferring 14th flight

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Raeesa Sayyad |

NASA’s overachieving Mars helicopter Ingenuity is having some time off before it endeavors its next flight. The rotorcraft had been scheduled for a brief drifting activity on Sept. 18. “It…