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Amazing photo shows spacewalking astronauts from the ground

(@SeVoSpace/Dr. Sebastian Voltmer/www.apollo-13.eu)

When astronaut Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer was watching from the ground in Maurer's hometown. You've never seen a spacewalk like this.

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Satellite spots stranded container ship Ever Forward from space

(Maxar)

Another cargo ship, another waterway, another embarrassing stranding for the Taiwan-based shipping company behind the weeklong blockage of the Suez Canal one year ago.

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White House proposes $26 billion NASA budget for 2023

(NASA/Ben Smegelsky)

NASA hopes to put people on Mars by 2040 as the agency discussed the Biden administration's proposed $26 billion NASA budget Monday (March 28).

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NASA emails reveal internal discussions over calls to rename James Webb Space Telescope: report

(NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

New documents suggest that NASA officials dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of its newest observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Spaceflight

NASA gears up for Artemis 1 moon rocket 'wet dress rehearsal'

(NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Artemis 1 will use a giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send an Orion capsule on an uncrewed trip around the moon. but first, it needs to pass a fueling test called a "wet dress rehearsal."

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FAA delays SpaceX Starship environmental review to April 29

(SpaceX)

The FAA has been working on a programmatic environmental assessment of SpaceX's Starship launch site Starbase for months now. And now, for at least another month.

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SpaceX's private Ax-1 astronaut flight cleared for launch pending NASA Artemis 1 moon rocket test

(Axiom Space)

The Ax-1 mission to the International Space Station passed its flight readiness review Friday (March 25), allowing the launch to proceed no earlier than April 3 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Science & Astronomy

House-sized asteroid zooms by Earth in close flyby

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The asteroid, called 2022 FB2, is about 49 feet (15 meters) across and will approach within 93,400 miles (150,000 kilometers) when it whizzes by our planet today.

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Small asteroid's orbit is changed forever after super close Earth flyby

(Pixabay)

A Hungarian astronomer who had discovered a small asteroid just hours before it hit Earth earlier this month nearly scored a second lucky strike spotting another space rock that appeared on a collision course with the planet. This time, however, the body missed Earth by just a few thousand miles.

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How a rocket crash on the moon will help impact physics

(Pixabay)

On March 4, a lonely, spent rocket booster smacked into the surface of the moon at nearly 6,000 mph. Once the dust has settled, we may get an up-close view of the crater to reveal the mysterious physics of planetary impacts.

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Entertainment

The secrets of black holes revealed in All About Space magazine

(Future)

Inside All About Space issue 128, on sale now, uncover the secrets of black holes; from their formation and anatomy to how global telescopes blazed a trail for black hole imaging and revolutionized astrophysics.

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This Week In Space Podcast: Episode 4 - The beast emerges

(TWiT)

On this episode of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look at how NASA rolled out its massive megarocket, the Space Launch System for the Artemis 1 moon mission, to its Florida launch pad last week.

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