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After Delayed Asteroid Mission, NASA’s JPL Is Making Changes
Following the release of an independent review examining the delay of NASA’s Psyche mission, the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) says it’s making progress in addressing the broader issues at the institution that went beyond its delayed asteroid mission.
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‘You Are Not Leaving Without Us’: Why Disabled Astronauts Are Key to Humanity’s Future in Space
“I went silent,” Dwayne Fernandes told me. “I shut the hell up.” Fernandes, a double-amputee since the age of 11, was recounting his experience in weightlessness, having recently participated in a parabolic flight alongside a disabled research crew. The zero-g flight threw him into a deeply contemplative state, and as the crew celebrated its successful…
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Watch Live as SpaceX Launches a New Crew to the ISS
Four astronauts — two from NASA and the others from Russia and the United Arab Emirates — are set to blast off and begin their six-month mission on the International Space Station. You can watch the launch live right here.
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NASA’s Artemis 1 Megarocket Launch Was Really, Really Loud
NASA’s new lunar program is in full swing, thanks to the successful launch and return of the Artemis 1 mission in late 2022. Physics researchers recently determined that the roar of the Space Launch System megarocket was louder than anticipated — but not so loud as the NASA launch that sparked an urban legend.