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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn spacecraft allows non-professionals to perform a spacewalk

Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, and Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer, have achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first non-professional astronauts to perform a spacewalk. On September 12, 2024, Isaacman...

This Week in Space Podcast: Episode 128: Starliner is back! What now?

Starliner is back! What now? Can Boeing compete with SpaceX's Dragons? - YouTube View in In Episode 128 of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss what's happening with...

Polaris Dawn breaks records and ushers in a new era in private space exploration

On September 12, two people on a SpaceX flight, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and engineer Sarah Gillis, performed the first commercial spacewalk in history at an altitude of more than 700 kilometers.SpaceX's...

Agency's Voyager 1 probe changes thrusters in a tricky problem as it flies through interstellar space

The distant, cold Voyager 1 spacecraft used a clever trick with its thrusters to help it phone home.Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object now flying through interstellar space, had thruster...

Watch today's launch of the Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station

Agency astronaut Don Pettit launches Soyuz MS-26 - YouTube View in A Agency astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts will launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) today (September 11), and you can...

The cyberpunk metroidvania RPG from the creator of Resident Evil and Dead Space has already doubled its Kickstarter goal with a romance that “echoes...

Altered Soul has already more than doubled its funding goal on Kickstarter, and after playing its first demo, I can totally understand why.Altered Soul is a Metroidvania that mixes acrobatic action...

This Week in Space Podcast: Episode 127: Space Stations Inc.

Space Stations Inc. - A visit with Max Haot from VAST - YouTube View in In episode 127 of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk to VAST's Max...

Boeing Starliner astronauts have years of medical studies that help them stay longer in space

Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams look set to end up staying on the International Space Station (ISS) for at least eight months, which is longer than a typical visit...

Chinese astronauts study ancient microbes aboard Tiangong space station (video)

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station are studying anaerobic archaea in an experiment to determine whether some of Earth's earliest life forms can withstand a simulated cosmic environment.The 18 crew...

What keeps everything moving in space?

On a smaller scale, things in space spin because of something called angular momentum. Everything in space is in constant motion. The Earth revolves around the Sun, the Sun orbits the...

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