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ESA ships Artemis 4 Orion service module to NASA after Trump tried to cancel it

ESA said in a statement that the Artemis 4 Orion service module would begin its journey across the Atlantic Ocean "in a few ...

What it really took to become an astronaut during the Space Race

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...
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What is Project Athena? All about the leaked plan that could turn NASA into a private space empire

One major goal in Project Athena is to launch a new Mars exploration program named Olympus. This plan was designed to align with SpaceX’s proposal to send an uncrewed Starship mission to Mars next ...

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...
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Ax-4 crew docks with International Space Station for 2-week stay

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The four-member crew of Axiom Space’s fourth private mission to the International Space Station has docked with the floating laboratory early Thursday morning for a two-week ...