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NASA's Artemis 1 megarocket rolls back to launch pad for moon mission

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The Launchpad

Spacesuit power problem cuts Russian spacewalk short outside space station

(NASA TV)

Mission Control ordered cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev back inside after his spacesuit's battery power fluctuated unexpectedly.

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NASA's Artemis 1 megarocket rolls back to launch pad for moon mission

(NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket headed back to the launch pad Tuesday night (Aug. 19) to take a step closer to a landmark lunar mission.

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Voyager 2: An iconic spacecraft that's still exploring 45 years on

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The interstellar vagabond continues to explore the cosmos along with its twin, Voyager 1.

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Carl Sagan, astronomer

Jimmy Carter, U.S. president

Ann Druyan, creative director for the Voyager Golden Records

Robert Alan Frosch, NASA administrator

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Space Deals

Get 43% off the Estes Saturn V model rocket, and save on launch sets too

(Estes)

Estes' Saturn V model rocket is a 1:200 scale model of the real thing, and it comes with detailed markings, painting and details to the same scale too.

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Science & Astronomy

Solar burst from 'hole' in the sun may trigger geomagnetic storms on Earth

(NASA/SDO)

An intense series of eruptions on the sun may trigger a strong geomagnetic storm on Earth Thursday (Aug. 18), spawning stunning aurora displays farther south of their usual polar regions.

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Supermassive black hole's bright 'photon ring' revealed in new image

(Broderick et al. 2022, ApJ, 935, 61)

The first image of the black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 has been 'remastered' to reveal forces at work around the behemoth

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Spaceflight

NASA's Artemis 1 mission will carry an asteroid-bound solar sail

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The cubesat will also use a lunar gravitational assist to catch up to asteroid 2020 GE in 2023.

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Vulcan Centaur rocket: The space workhorse of tomorrow

(United Launch Alliance)

The Vulcan Centaur rocket will join ULA's well-established workhorses Atlas V and Delta IV in launching payloads into space.

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Technology

Want to grow plants on Mars? High school student project finds 2 tricks for Red Planet

(Kasiviswanathan et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0)

The soil and water of Mars are normally too harsh for crops, but research led by a then-high school sophomore finds that alfalfa plants and photosynthetic bacteria might help make Martian soil and water fit enough to support farming

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