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Chinese astronauts land back on Earth after six-month mission | Science & Tech News
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Three Chinese astronauts have landed back on Earth after six months spent completing construction of the Tiangong station, state TV reported. Commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down in a capsule at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at around 12.10pm, according to China Central Television.…
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Watch Orion’s flyby of the moon during NASA’s Artemis mission | Science & Tech News
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NASA’s Artemis spacecraft will arrive at the moon – and you can follow its journey by watching the live steam above. The Orion capsule will reach the moon at 12.44pm (GMT) – sweeping 80 miles (130km) above the lunar surface, before entering into a larger orbit. During the approach, the capsule will fire its main…
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NASA’s Artemis mission is spending $93bn of taxpayer money on a return to the moon – but it has a good case | Science & Tech News
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Fifty years after the last Apollo astronaut left footprints on the moon, NASA is on its way back. The Orion spacecraft is now on its 1.3-million-mile test flight that will take it into lunar orbit. In two years’ time, there will be a crewed mission around the moon, and soon after humans will land on…
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NASA’s Dart mission successfully shifts asteroid’s orbit after deliberate crash | US News
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NASA has said a spacecraft which deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month has successfully shifted its orbit. Findings of telescope observations showed that the suicide test flight of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on 26 September achieved its primary objective the trajectory of the asteroid. NASA attempted the first test of its…
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NASA-built spacecraft to deliberately crash into asteroid in test mission | Science & Tech News
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A NASA-built spacecraft will deliberately crash into an asteroid as part of a test mission later this month. The spacecraft, known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart), is expected to collide with a 170-metre wide (560ft) asteroid named Dimorphos at 12.14am UK time on 27 September. Dimorphos is no threat to Earth but it has…
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Valery Polyakov: Russian cosmonaut who set record for longest space mission dies aged 80 | Science & Tech News
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Valery Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died aged 80. Polyakov spent 437 days between January 1994 and March 1995 on the Mir space station. He orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times before returning. Polyakov had trained as a physician and wanted to demonstrate…
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Artemis set for launch – what you need to know about NASA’s mission to put humans back on the moon | Science & Tech News
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The launch of the mission that aims to put humans back on the moon will go ahead as planned next week, say NASA bosses. Artemis 1 was given the green light during a flight readiness review at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Here’s what you need to know about the historic space endeavour. What does…
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Rocket debris found on Australian farmland was from SpaceX mission, agency confirms | World News
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Experts have confirmed debris found in New South Wales is from a craft built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. People have also been warned by Australian officials to “not attempt” to handle any other debris which could be from the craft amid predictions more items “could still be found”. Two farmers discovered what seemed to…
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Ewe-ston we have a problem: Shaun the Sheep named as astronaut aboard NASA lunar mission | Science & Tech News
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Ewe-ston we have a problem? The European Space Agency (ESA) has named its first astronaut to fly on its NASA’s Artemis I lunar mission: Shaun the Sheep. No stranger to outer space following his exploits aboard a UFO in his big screen caper Farmageddon, the space-sheep will be going further than any farmyard friend (or…