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NASA’s Latest Request for Cash Includes Big Plans for a Deorbiting ISS ‘Space Tug’
NASA is staying focused on the Artemis lunar program, its Moon to Mars objectives, and maintaining a presence in low Earth orbit as part of the agency’s proposed budget for 2024. The space agency also has a new item on its annual wishlist: a space tug to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the…
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For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles — more than 2.2 million tons — floating in the world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…
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Latvia Punishes Drunk Drivers by Donating Their Cars to Ukraine
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NASA Is Set to Reveal the Artemis Moon Suits, and We’re Hyped
NASA and Axiom Space are planning to reveal the new spacesuits next week, in what is the first redesign of Moon attire since the Apollo era.