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Four Astronauts Spent 3 Days in Space. Here’s What It Did to Their Bodies and Minds.

12 June 2024 at 10:29
An extensive examination of medical data gathered from the private Inspiration4 mission in 2021 revealed temporary cognitive declines and genetic changes in the crew.

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Jared Isaacman, left, and Hayley Arceneaux, two of the four Inspiration4 crew members, during the mission in 2021.

Boeing’s Starliner Overcomes Malfunctioning Thrusters to Dock at Space Station

6 June 2024 at 16:00
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, opened the hatch of the spacecraft and boarded the outpost in orbit.

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The Boeing Starliner capsule en route to docking with the International Space Station on Thursday.

SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Successfully Completes 1st Return From Space

6 June 2024 at 12:50
The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars.

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The SpaceX Starship launching on its fourth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on June 6, 2024.

SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Successfully Completes 1st Return From Space

6 June 2024 at 12:50
The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars.

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The SpaceX Starship launching on its fourth flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on June 6, 2024.

Boeing Starliner Carries NASA Astronauts to Orbit in ‘Milestone’ Flight

5 June 2024 at 15:47
The launch marks a long-delayed win for the aerospace giant, and the next step in NASA’s reliance on the private sector for its human spaceflight program.

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The Starliner lifting off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, Boeing’s first mission with astronauts aboard, who would take about a day to reach the International Space Station.

The Long, Difficult Road of Boeing’s Starliner Capsule

5 June 2024 at 13:44
Here’s a timeline of the setbacks that proceeded the spacecraft’s first trip to orbit with astronauts on board.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

A New Search for Ripples in Space From the Beginning of Time

3 June 2024 at 11:02
As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang.

Meet Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA Astronauts Riding on Boeing’s Starliner

2 June 2024 at 10:32

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The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.

NASA Astronauts to Wait Another Week for Boeing Starliner Launch

24 May 2024 at 14:56
Officials from NASA and Boeing say they have worked out a solution to a helium leak that has kept the Starliner astronaut capsule grounded.

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The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

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An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

© B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project

An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.
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