#Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk

“#Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk” This photo provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and NASA Flight Engineer Bob Behnken during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, June 26, 2020. Cassidy and Behnken, are conducting the first of at least four spacewalks to replace the last bunch of old…

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#To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge

“#To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge” NASA’s astronaut class of 2020 might be among those returning to the Moon under the Artemis program Everyone poops. Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity—from the Apollo missions when waste management was, in NASA’s words,…

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#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico

“#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico” This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Virgin Galactic is celebrating the second successful glide flight of its spaceship over Spaceport America in…

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#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet

“#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet” Courtesy Photo | The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th comet discovery. The two comets are relatively close at approximately 1 million miles apart, suggesting that they could have been…

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#NASA developing a plan to fly personnel on suborbital spacecraft

“#NASA developing a plan to fly personnel on suborbital spacecraft” Credit: NASA For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights. NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has successfully worked with emerging commercial suborbital transportation systems to fly research payloads to…

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#ESA listens in on black hole mission

“#ESA listens in on black hole mission” Illustration of the Spektr-RG spacecraft. Credit: NPO Lavochkin European and Russian specialists recently worked together to catch signals from an astrophysical observatory mission, now mapping X-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond, discovering previously unknown supermassive black holes. In a joint technology demonstration conducted in April and May,…

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