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Frank Borman, Apollo 8 astronaut who led first flight to the moon, dies at 95

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November 10, 2023

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Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman dies at 95

(NASA)

"Today we remember one of NASA's best. Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a statement. "Frank knew the power exploration held in uniting humanity when he said, 'Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.'" A member of NASA's second class of astronauts, Borman lifted off twice into space. On his second mission, Apollo 8, he commanded the first crew to orbit the moon.

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Space Quiz! What comet is the Taurid meteor shower associated with?

Learn the answer here!

Satellite camera takes perfectly blurry photo of Earth

(ESA)

It's blurry, the colors look kind of wrong, the planet isn't centered, half of the whole thing is shadowed, and honestly, it appears as though someone from the early 2000's took it with a flip phone.

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Skywatching

Taurid meteor shower 2023: When, where & how to see it

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The Taurid meteor shower is composed of two streams: The Southern Taurids which peak between Nov. 4 and Nov. 5; and the Northern Taurids which peak between Nov. 11 and Nov. 12.

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Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic to ground its VSS Unity space plane

(Virgin Galactic)

Unity flew for the sixth time in as many months last week, carrying two research scientists and another private passenger to and from suborbital space on a mission called Galactic 05, but the impressive flight cadence of Virgin Galactic's space plane won't last much longer.

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Science & Astronomy

1st black hole ever imaged has twisted magnetic fields

(EHT Collaboration/ Ian Stephens/ George Wong)

Spiraling light at the edge of a distant supermassive black hole could help matter escape from being consumed by this cosmic titan.

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SpaceX

SpaceX to launch mysterious X-37B on Falcon Heavy Dec. 7

(U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks)

This marks the first time that the X-37B will launch on a Falcon Heavy. Space Force says the mission will follow previous flights that used the X-37B as a test bed for launching experimental payloads and returning them to Earth.

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Technology

NASA looks for 'strategic minerals' with modified spy plane

(NASA/Tony Landis)

The agency's two ER-2 (Earth Resources 2) aircraft are based on the Lockheed U-2 spy plane that was developed in the 1950s at the highly secretive Groom Lake test site that would become the United States Air Force's infamous Area 51 facility.

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Search for Life

Detecting alien life by hunting for 'Jurassic worlds.'

(ALLVISIONN/Getty Images)

Scientists usually search for life elsewhere in the universe by using Earth as a template -- after all, it is the only planet we know where life thrives. (Life as we know it, at least.) But according to new research, a bygone era of Earth may be a better indicator of complex life than the Earth we know of today.

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