Category: space
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NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base…
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SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit
The crew vehicle, called Resilience, was scheduled to fly from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on one of Musk’s reusable Falcon 9 rockets on Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT, with a five-hour launch window opening at 8 p.m. EDT. Another rich entrepreneur is slated to fly into space this week, strapped into the capsule of a…
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