On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
The United States has unveiled an ambitious and controversial strategy to establish nuclear power plants on the Moon, marking one of the most aggressive expansions of space policy in modern history. Under
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The splashdown of a US space capsule into the Pacific, parachutes unfolding as engineers cheered another apparent triumph, was widely presented in the United States as a symbolic victory in the renewed
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The four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission have spoken publicly for the first time since safely returning to Earth after completing what is being described as the first human trip to
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by Durga Velayudham The recent crescendo of fanfare surrounding NASA’s Artemis II mission exposes something far more elemental than a scientific milestone: it reveals a psychological fissure in America’s strategic identity. As four astronauts
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On 1 April, four astronauts left Earth to circle the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, marking a historic moment in space exploration. Flags may wave, speeches may be
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All eyes were on the sky yesterday as NASA launched four astronauts on its Artemis II mission, a lunar flyby designed to test the agency’s hardware and procedures for returning humans to
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SpaceX has boosted its target initial public offering valuation above $2 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company prepares to pitch its IPO to prospective investors. If realized,
More SpaceX is working with at least 21 banks on its blockbuster initial public offering, codenamed Project Apex, according to people familiar with the matter, Reuters reports. The offering, expected in June, is
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NASA is on the cusp of history once again. Fifty-four years after humans last traveled beyond low Earth orbit, the Artemis 2 mission is preparing to send astronauts past the Moon, this
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On April 1, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts on a roughly 10-day voyage around the moon—the deepest human spaceflight since Apollo 17 in 1972. The
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