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NASA delays first Crew Dragon operational mission to November
NASA has delayed the first Crew Dragon operational mission to November after SpaceX wanted to study a Falcon 9 anomaly.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed key environmental tests
The observatory is still on track to launch next October.
The International Space Station gets its first space refrigerator
The units were designed by BioServe Space Technologies at UCB and are only about the size of a standard microwave. ISS has a water-cooling system we’ll be tapped into to directly dump the waste heat and keep the system cool.”
NASA wants ideas for keeping Moon missions powered in the dark
NASA is crowdsourcing ideas for energy systems that would keep Moon missions powered, even in the dark.
NASA delays its Titan drone mission by another year
NASA is delaying the launch of its Dragonfly drone mission to Titan to 2027 due to the pandemic and other external setbacks.
SpaceX's reused rockets will carry national security payloads for the first time
SpaceX's reused rockets will soon carry US national security payloads, starting with a GPS satellite in 2021.
SpaceX scales back plans for Starship's first high-altitude flight
SpaceX's Elon Musk now says Starship's first high-altitude flight will top out at 50,000 feet, not 60,000.
Hitting the Books: The invisible threat that every ISS astronaut fears
“Station, Houston, execute ammonia leak emergency response, I say again, execute emergency response, ammonia leak, this is not a drill!”
OSIRIS-REx will attempt its first asteroid sample collection next month
NASA's OSIRIS-REx will touch down on asteroid Bennu to collect space rocks on October 20th.
A reality show wants to send its winning contestant to the ISS
'Space Hero' wants to send a reality TV winner into space, if it can find the money.
Japan will send an 8K camera to Mars and its moons
Japan's JAXA and NHK are sending an 8K camera to Mars and its moons to capture images in unprecedented detail.
SpaceX's next Starship prototype will try a 60,000-foot return flight
Elon Musk has revealed that SpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype will have a nosecone and attempt a 60,000-foot return trip.
Space startup Astra's first orbital rocket launch ends prematurely
Rocket startup Astra's first orbital launch bid ended sooner than expected after its vehicle threatened to go off-course.
'AGOS: A Game of Space' is Ubisoft's interstellar VR adventure
Think: SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator but in VR and with a sweeping orchestral score for accompaniment.
NASA will pay private companies to collect Moon dirt samples
NASA is looking to buy Moon dirt from private companies before its 2024 Moon mission.
Blue Origin has been trying to get the hell off this planet for 20 years now
Blue Origin has built three New Shepards to date. (The crew capsule was unharmed; the rocket stage, not so much.) It comes in two variants: a 270-foot-tall two-stage rocket and a 313-foot-tall three-stage rocket.
Virgin Galactic's last round of SpaceShipTwo tests begins October 22nd
Virgin Galactic has filed to start the first in a 'final' round of SpaceShipTwo tests on October 22nd, after which it will fly Richard Branson to space.
China says it landed a reusable spacecraft after a two-day flight
China says it has landed a reusable spacecraft after two days in orbit, possibly helping it compete with the US Air Force's X-37B.
White House issues 'SPD-5' cybersecurity policy for space
The White House doesn't plan to require the country's space industry to adopt the practices it outlined.
Astronomers spot a super-rare class of black hole for the first time
“We were able to confirm that this came from a collision of two black holes,” Jani said. The individual black holes weighed roughly 85 and 65 times the mass of the sun, respectively.

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