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SpaceX has, once again, made history. On Wednesday night, the aerospace manufacturer successfully launched its Inspiration4 mission, marking the first time an all-civilian space crew made it into orbit. The crew of “amateur astronauts” is made up of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux, geoscientist Sian Proctor, data engineer Chris Sembroski, and billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman, who […]
The United States Mint has announced that Maya Angelou and Sally Ride will be the first two women honored as part of the American Women Quarters Program, which will commemorate the accomplishments and contributions of 20 prominent woman in American history by putting them on the back of quarters, New York Times reports. Check out a mock-up of the […]
SpaceX has announced the first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit, which marks an objectively awesome milestone for the expansion of space travel. Per a press release shared on Monday, SpaceX is targeting “no earlier than” the fourth quarter of 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch of Inspiration4 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in […]
Astronomers have deduced that a series of short, powerful radio waves received from space earlier this year are actually coming from within our own galaxy. According to three papers published in Nature, powerful blasts of radio waves from space recorded in April came from an object within the Milky Way. Known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, […]
James Gray’s long-awaited space drama is finally entering the cosmos, as the first trailer for Ad Astra has hit the net. Roy McBride, played by Brad Pitt, is an astronaut who embarks on a journey in search of his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones). Along the way, he learns about the mysterious research his dad was […]
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