space
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Hilary Swank Is on a Mission to Mars in the Emotional First Trailer for Netflix’s Away
She’s boldly going where no one has gone before, but doing so means leaving the people she loves the most. We’ve got the first trailer for Netflix’s Away, a new series that sees first manned mission to Mars — a three-year journey that will test the limits of its crew, as well as the patience…
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NASA’s Mars Rover and the Aussie Scientists Who Helped Build It
Every two years or so, when Mars passes close to Earth in its orbit around the Sun, conditions are right to launch a spacecraft to the red planet. Launches during this period can complete the seven-month voyage using a minimum of energy. We are in the middle of one such period right now, and three…
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China Launches Country’s First Independent Mission to Mars, Complete With Rover
China successfully launched its first independent mission to Mars, dubbed Tianwen-1, from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan Province on Thursday. China’s “Long March-5″ rocket is carrying an orbiter, lander, and even an uncrewed rover that will explore the surface of Mars in 2021, provided everything goes according to plan.
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People Have Committed More Than $634,000 for a NASA-Designed Perfume That Smells Like Space
There are so many things ordinary folk, aka people who are not astronauts, want to know about space. Apparently, what space smells like is one of the burning questions thousands of people ask themselves. Since it’s probable that all those people won’t be able to travel to space in the near future, they’re doing the…