spaceexploration
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This Week in Spaceflight: Axiom’s Second Private ISS Mission and the First Arab Woman in Orbit
History could be made this week, as astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi seeks to become the first Saudi woman and first Arab woman to reach orbit. We’ve also got our eyes on the annual Humans to Mars Summit and an ongoing contest to make in-space food production more practicable. It’s also a big week for SpaceX’s Falcon…
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NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Apophis is scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous visits by other rocky bodies.
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A Space Pharmacy and Asteroid-Pulverising Tech Just Got NASA Funding
NASA is always looking for new ideas, and it’s just selected the latest projects to fund under its Innovative Advanced Concepts program. Six research teams earned Phase II grants to continue developing their futuristic designs, which include a strategy for destroying Earth-threatening asteroids and a plan to let astronauts produce their own medicines in space.
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The Year Ahead in Astronomy
The Webb Space Telescope will continue to dominate headlines in 2023. Its images of storied objects (like the Pillars of Creation) and never-before-seen objects (like Maisie’s Galaxy, one of the most distant light sources we yet know of) reveal new features of cosmic structures. Webb is collecting huge amounts of data for astronomers to study…