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All Systems Go On Plans To Launch World’s First Space Hotel [Video]
04 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
By 2027, it looks like you’ll be able to add ‘low orbit’ to your list of travel destinations, including a booking at a fully kitted out space hotel.
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NASA Prepares For “Seven Minutes Of Terror” Ahead Of Mars Landing [Video]
17 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
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A Raffle Will Decide Who Gets To Go On SpaceX’s First Commercial Space Mission
02 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Three lucky people will be joining tech billionaire Jared Isaacman on a private flight into space, and there’s even a raffle running for the honour.
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It’s Elon Musk Versus Jeff Bezos In ‘Space Real Estate’ War
27 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
It’s Amazon versus SpaceX in a battle for galactic real estate in the satellite-based internet market.
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Hating 2021 Already? Here Are Five Things To Fill You With Hope
25 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Yeah, there’s a lot of bad stuff happening, and it’s easy to get caught up in it, but let’s not lose sight of some of the things that will inspire hope this year.
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NASA Gears Up To Ignite “The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built” [Videos]
11 Jan 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA once again has its sights set on the Moon, and it’s built a beast of a rocket to get the job done.
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Meteor Fireball Spotted In Japan Is Quite Something [Video]
30 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
On Sunday, “a dazzling fireball” was seen lighting up the skies across large areas of western Japan, as a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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SpaceX Astronaut Blown Away By It All – Shoots Video Of Earth
26 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
44-year-old Victor Glover is pretty stoked with life right about now, as he begins his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
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What It Takes To Be An Astronaut On The First Mars Mission [Video]
25 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The astronauts chosen for the first mission to Mars will need more than just the technical know-how to complete the mission successfully.
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Historic NASA Photos Up For Auction
10 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
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What It’s Really Like To Live On The International Space Station [Video]
03 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Hollywood would have us believe that floating around in space is a glamourous business, but in reality, it can be a little gross.
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They’re Starting To Place Value On Asteroids Now [Video]
02 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
If hypotheses are correct, even Jeff Bezos couldn’t afford to buy Asteroid Psyche, which is worth more than the entire economy on our planet.
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Scientists Reckon They Know What Was On That 2018 ‘Fireball’ Meteor [Videos]
28 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
For more than two years, scientists have been studying a 12 million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in 2018, and they’re ready to reveal the results.
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Footage Of NASA Probe Touching Down On That Asteroid [Videos]
22 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
In another landmark space adventure, NASA’s mission to collect dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu was a success.
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It Was A Pretty Average Monday Aboard The International Space Station
21 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
It was one of those days when everything went wrong, except it all happened in space which raises the stakes a little.
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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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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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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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The Best Supermoon Images And Reason Why It Happens
08 May 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
If you missed the latest supermoon, I’m afraid it was the last one of the year. Thankfully, there are pictures.
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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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Listen Carefully: Tom Cruise Is Going To Film A Movie In Actual Space
06 May 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cruise is known for his daring stunts in movies like the ‘Mission: Impossible” franchise, but this will take things to a new level altogether.
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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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