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Space
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Elon Musk Reckons Success Of Colonising Mars Depends On One Thing
21 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Musk recently spoke at the Mars Society’s annual conference, and said that projects to develop a Martian settlement were already underway.
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Here’s How NASA Plans To ‘High Five’ An Asteroid [Video]
20 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
In a first for NASA, the Osiris-Rex probe hopes to touch down on a large asteroid and grab some rocks and dust in what has been dubbed a “high five manoeuvre”.
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SpaceX’s Starman Just Cruised Past Mars In A Tesla
09 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Tesla Roadster, with its mannequin ‘pilot’ Starman, made its first close approach to Mars.
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Biggest TV Prize Ever – The World’s First Space Reality Show Is Three Years Away
21 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
A new reality show, set to be filmed in 2023, wants to send one person to the International Space Station, in what organisers call “the biggest prize ever awarded on TV”.
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Scientists May Have Found Life On Venus
15 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
While Venus is far too hot to sustain life, a new discovery suggests that something may be living in the planet’s atmosphere.
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The Southern African Connection With NASA’s Latest Mars Exploration [Video]
19 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is looking to make history by becoming the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another planet.
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First NASA Water Landing Since 1975 [Videos]
03 Aug 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Crew Dragon returned to Earth safely after its historic mission to the International Space Station.
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Here’s What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Looking For On Mars [Videos]
30 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Rover is loaded up on Atlas 5 and ready to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Destination: Mars.
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Take A Look Inside Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Cabin [Videos]
29 Jul 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time, Virgin Galactic is showing off the inside of SpaceShipTwo, a crew cabin for up to six passengers and two pilots that could make space tourism history.
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SpaceX Astronaut Shares Images Of Cape Town, Jozi, And Pretoria
06 Jul 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Astronaut Doug Hurley has been enjoying his stay on the International Space Station, and recently posted some images of our major cities.
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A Second A Day – Stunning NASA Video Shows 10 Years Of The Sun
30 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA has released a decade-long timelapse of the sun, with each second of the video representing one day.
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Spectacular Images And Video Of 2020’s First ‘Ring Of Fire’ Solar Eclipse
22 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Thousands of people from West Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India, and the Far East watched the “ring of fire” solar eclipse that happened yesterday.
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Seven Months, 493 Million Kilometres – Historic Mars Mission Due To Lift Off Next Month
09 Jun 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On July 14, a robotic craft will leave a remote Japanese island and head for the Red Planet, with quite a journey to get there.
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Why Elon Musk Said “The Trampoline Is Working” Following The SpaceX Launch [Video]
02 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
You’d have expected Elon Musk to say a number of celebratory things following SpaceX making history, but a trampoline reference wasn’t one of them.
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Pretty Wild – Watch US Astronauts Cruise Into Space Station With Floating Greetings [Videos]
01 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
This past weekend, for the first time in history, a commercial aerospace company carried humans into Earth’s orbit.
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SA Teams Up With NASA To Aid Space Travel
29 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The South African National Space Agency has teamed up with NASA to host a Deep Space Ground Station.
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Today’s The Day: Watch SpaceX’s Historic Falcon 9 Astronaut Launch Live [Videos]
27 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
For the first time since 2011, NASA astronauts are launching into orbit from the United States.
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NASA Is Taking Applications If You’re Keen To Spend Eight Months In A Simulated Spaceship
21 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA’s latest experiment on its mission to reach Mars involves locking a small group of people in a shuttle for eight months.
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Reckon You Could Dock A SpaceX Rocket? This Simulator Lets You Try [Video]
13 May 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On May 27, the first launch of astronauts from US soil in nearly 10 years takes place, with a docking at the International Space Station. Here’s your chance to try that docking for yourself.
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Steve Carell’s Comedy, ‘Space Force’, Is Going To Annoy The US Government [Trailer]
07 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Do you feel like your purpose on this planet is not on this planet? If so, you could be perfect for the US Space Force, which already has a comedy series devoted to its existence.
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Beautiful Photos Of Our Universe In Celebration Of Hubble’s 30th Birthday
04 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Hubble Space Telescope is 30 years old. Let’s look back at some of its most iconic images of the universe.
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African Telescope Could Uncover Secrets Of Black Holes [Video]
20 Apr 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
To expand our knowledge of black holes, a network of AMT telescopes are being set up around the world, including one in Africa.
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Astronomers Found Hundreds Of Tiny Worlds Hiding In The Solar System
17 Mar 2020 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Just when you thought that the vastness of space couldn’t get more awe-inspiring, astronomers found more worlds on the edges of the solar system.
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Highest-Res Pano On Mars Surface Ever [Video]
06 Mar 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The Mars rover, Curiosity, has captured a high-resolution panoramic picture of its home, giving us a unique look at the surface of the red planet.
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Keen To Go To Space? NASA Is Now Hiring [Video]
04 Mar 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
For the first time in four years, NASA has opened up applications for new astronauts. The lucky few will get to go to the moon or possibly even Mars.
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SpaceX Blew Up Its Falcon 9 Rocket On Purpose [Videos]
20 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
SpaceX is getting ready to send astronauts to the International Space Station, but not before they run some tests, and blow a few things up.
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‘Nice Try!’ – Flat Earthers Are Quick To Call Out NASA’s Trickery
16 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Flat Earthers are very upset with pictures posted by astronaut Jessica Meir, which shows the earth in all its round glory.
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SpaceX’s First Moon Tourist Is Looking For Love
13 Jan 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yusaku Maezawa will be SpaceX’s first paying passenger on a trip around the moon. Now he wants to find a female “life partner” to take along for the ride.
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They’ve Found A Potentially Habitable Planet ‘Close’ To Earth [Video]
07 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered another Earth-sized, possibly habitable planet orbiting around a star and it’s ‘only’ 100 light-years away.
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Five Of The Most Important Scientific Discoveries Made This Year
28 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
2019 has been a good year for scientists, who have made discoveries that have significantly expanded our understanding of Earth, the universe, and our place in it.
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