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Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX has completed its latest mission, launching the Falcon Heavy rocket into orbit for the third time. In what Musk described as their “most difficult launch ever”, the rocket took 24 satellites into space, carrying NASA’s deep space atomic clock and The Planetary Society’s solar sail, LightSail 2, hoping to develop the technology that will allow humankind to one day explore space further.
The bright spot in the distance was photographed days before the rover detected a possible sign of life on the Red Planet.
NASA has announced plans for a new mission to the moon which, for the first time in history, will include women. The new mission is named Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon, and will mark humankind’s return to the moon after almost fifty years. Women have been visiting space since 1963, but all twelve astronauts who walked on the surface of the moon in the Apollo programme were men.
The agency is trying to raise money so they can send astronauts to the Moon in 2024.
Who needs a beach holiday when you can have a space holiday?
Fifty years ago this week, 'Snoopy' and 'Charlie Brown' paved the way for the first lunar landing.
A meteorite has been captured on CCTV lighting up the sky in North Australia. Residents reported a flash as bright as daylight and a noise that rattled windows as the fireball landed at around midnight.
Billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mockup of a new moon lander. Bezos, who is also the founder of rocket company Blue Origin, hopes that ‘Blue Moon’ will help the drive to establish a lunar outpost on the moon within the next five years. If successful, it will be the first time humans have set foot on the moon since 1972.
Humankind has been dreaming of the stars since legends began, and the mystery of space exploration has cemented itself in popular culture. From the pioneering astronauts in the 1950s to our first glimpse of a black hole this year, we continue to make discoveries that were once the stuff of science fiction.
How Katie Bouman made the seemingly impossible a reality.
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