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[ad_1] SpaceX will send four astronauts into low Earth orbit as part of its first manned operational flight to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew, consisting of a Japanese and three US astronauts, are scheduled to take off shortly after midnight on Sunday, on a rocket and capsule system …

[ad_1] An asteroid is racing towards Earth’s orbit at an incredible speed of 11.20 kilometers per second. The space rock is officially known as ‘2020 UL3’ and is estimated to be 53 to 130m in size, larger than the Sydney Opera House. UL3 is an Apollo asteroid according to NASA, …

[ad_1] Mars is not a place for humans. Mars is not a place at all. With its sunlit surface having been hit by radiation for millions of years, there is virtually no hope that anything (except perhaps a tardigrade) will survive in its reddish wastelands. But what’s underneath? You don’t …

[ad_1] ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft acquired this image of a triple crater on Mars on August 6, 2020. The largest measures approximately 28 miles (45 km) in diameter and the smallest about 17 miles (28 km). Image via ESA. The European Space Agency (ESA) released the above image late last …

[ad_1] Three NASA crew members and a Japanese astronaut are ready to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket on Saturday, bound for the International Space Station on the program’s first six-month routine mission since the United States resumed spaceflight with crew in May after nine years of dependence on Russia. NASA …

[ad_1] Getting minerals in space may be a little easier than we thought, with the help of some of the smallest inhabitants on Earth. Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteria can improve space mining efficiency by more than 400 percent, offering a much easier way to …

[ad_1] The Associated Press11 November 2020 09:36:24 NASA is underestimating the amount of time and money it will take to bring Mars rocks back to Earth over the next decade, an independent panel said Tuesday. The review committee suggested that NASA and the European Space Agency consider making it past …

[ad_1] Over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust are thought to fall on Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass close to Earth. Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each …

[ad_1] NASA and the private company SpaceX Preparations continue for the next manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS), whose protagonists, three Americans and one Japanese, are already in Cape Canaveral, for takeoff this Saturday if tropical storm Eta permits. Cosmic rays to X-ray volcanoes) NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, …

[ad_2][ad_1] To share Tweet To share To share To share Print E-mail THE PYMNTS The Gig Economy Index found that while 84% of gig workers would get more work done if they were paid faster, 17% of gig workers lost up to 20% of their income due to payment mechanisms. …