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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch on August 30

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Engadget 3d ago

China shakes up its space programs to land astronauts on the moon by 2030: 'We will spare no effort'

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Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression

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US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network

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NASA reveals Artemis 3 astronaut crew

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Space-CIM: Enabling Compute-In-Memory Accelerators for Thermally-Constrained Space Platforms

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Is this the next Artemis crew? A look at the astronauts on NASA's shortlist

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