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See the 'crawling,' ball-shaped robot that rolled around the moon during Japan's historic first landing
See the 'crawling,' ball-shaped robot that rolled around the moon during Japan's historic first landing A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface. When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, nicknamed the "Moon Sniper," face-planted onto the lunar surface in 2024, an experimental rover told Earth scientists what happened. Rolling autonomously through the lunar...
Blue Origin rocket explosion is bad news for both Bezos and NASA
Blue Origin rocket explosion is bad news for both Bezos and NASA Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Space exploration is filled with setbacks, but the spectacular explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on Thursday night marked a significant blow to not only the company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, but also NASA, with the two collaborating for the upcoming US moon missions. "Spaceflight is unforgiving," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a post on X soon after the...
Trump’s moon mission at risk after huge rocket explosion
A devastating rocket explosion in Florida threatens to delay U.S. President Donald Trump’s grand vision to return American astronauts to the moon by 2028 and build a lunar base. One of the rockets NASA was relying on to get to the moon exploded on its launchpad Thursday night — a huge setback for Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, as it aims to challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX and build a rocket that can ferry cargo and humans into orbit and beyond.
Artemis II moon mission research continues on Earth
Since NASA's Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations collected on the test flight. Results from these science investigations will help support safe human exploration of deep space and provide a blueprint for how future missions will conduct science on the lunar surface as NASA builds a moon base and develops an enduring...
Rocket goes boom, satellite cameras zoom: Explosive Blue Origin damage is visible from space
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Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor
New Glenn rocket explodes at Launch Complex 36 on Thursday night in Florida. | Image: Spaceflight Now While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night's spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it's already clear that this will be a major setback for NASA's Moon base plans and Amazon's fledgling Leo space internet constellation. The incident occurred at about 9pm at Blue Origin's Florida launch site during a hot-fire test, where seven engines in the booster stage are lit...
Ted Danson was shocked women viewed him as a sex symbol during early ‘Cheers’ days
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Blue Origin explosion ‘huge setback for everyone in space community’, ESA chief says
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) chief told Euronews that the explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket, which plays a crucial role in NASA’s Artemis missions to return to the Moon, will cause significant delays. ESA’s Director General, Josef Aschbacher, was “saddened” and “concerned” by the images showing the explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket during an engine test at a Florida launch pad last week, saying the damage was “quite big.” Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who founded the space...
Artemis III crew revealed: NASA announces astronauts for 'one of history's most complex missions'
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to return to flight before year ends, CEO says
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to return to flight before year ends, CEO says June 2 : Blue Origin will return its New Glenn rocket to flight before the year ends, CEO Dave Limp said late on Monday, days after one of the rockets exploded, damaging the company's launch pad and tightening a U.S. launch bottleneck for satellite companies. Blue Origin staff has inspected damage to the company's only launch pad, and the company has not said what may have caused the explosion on Thursday. Limp...