#Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

#Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

“#Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit” CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, six sleeping compartments and 12 rooms, depending on how you…

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#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu

#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu

“#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu” The rock-strewn asteroid Bennu. Image: nasa Touchdown. Earlier in October, NASA successfully collected rocky samples from asteroid Bennu, a relatively small, well-preserved space rock some 200 million miles from Earth. On Friday, NASA released footage of the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, approaching and briefly touching down on the…

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#Why moon ice is a huge deal

#Why moon ice is a huge deal

“#Why moon ice is a huge deal” Mankind is officially “one small step” closer to sustaining life on the moon long-term. Science has found two sources of water on the moon outside of its frigid polar zones. SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a converted jet originally intended for star-tracking. It found water…

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#NASA’s Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars

#NASA’s Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars

“#NASA’s Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars” After launching on July 30 to head to the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars, the space agency announced. Late Tuesday, Julie Kangas, a navigator working on the Perseverance rover mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the rover had logged 146.3 million miles as…

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