President Obama phoned the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team on Monday, congratulating them on their amazing Entry, Landing and Descent (EDL) efforts that resulted in NASA’s Curiosity rover landing safely on the surface of Mars. He also joked that if Curiosity makes contact with Martians, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team should inform him right away.
"Dear Moon"
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SpaceX’s Starship program has reached a major milestone ahead of its historic launch with a…
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A fully stacked Starship is still set to conduct the next round of tests for…
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SpaceX’s Starship program is set to take its next leap in the coming year, following…
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SpaceX’s engine testing facility on 4,300 acres of land in McGregor, Texas, just south of…
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SpaceX’s Starship SN10 launched – and nailed the landing – Wednesday. However, likely due to…
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Since 2012, SpaceX has been working on a reusable rocket family, now called Starship, that…
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SpaceX Chief Designer Elon Musk has provided the first overview for the Starship Program since…
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Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and Japanese spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano have concluded…
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Roscosmos and Space Adventures has launched and docked the Soyuz MS-20 space tourism mission to…
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Starship SN15 is expected to undergo a Static Fire test as early as this week…
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On September 29th, 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled detailed plans of the Big Falcon…
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Uncrewed
Year In Review, 2017 (Part II): Rovers, orbiters peel away Mars’ secrets & reveal new mysteries
For solar and space weather science, 2017 was a major boon to understanding how Coronal…
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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin recently released “A Unified Space Vision,” his personal plan for humankind’s…