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Seeing NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample up close at the Smithsonian was surreal

Seeing NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample was surreal | Space Quiz! About how much does each segment of the SLS's solid rocket boosters weigh? | Watch NASA assemble Artemis 2 moon rocket boosters

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Seeing NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample was surreal

(Space.com / Monisha Ravisetti)

"That was as much as 200 million miles away at one point. Yeah, now it's only like 20 miles from my house."

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Space Quiz! About how much does each segment of the SLS's solid rocket boosters weigh?

Learn the answer here!

100,000 pounds (45,000 kg)

150 tons (150,000 kg)

1,000 pounds (450 kg)

10,000 pounds (4,500 kg)

Watch NASA assemble Artemis 2 moon rocket boosters

(NASA)

Each booster will include five segments, once fully assembled. The design is based on the space shuttle program's booster - but is taller to support the larger SLS.

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Skywatching

Track the ISS with NASA's new 'Spot the Station' app

(NASA)

NASA just released a new "Spot The Station" app, which improves upon the space agency's official "Spot the Station" website, delivering added capabilities and information to expand the ISS tracking experience for both casual stargazers and NASA acolytes.

Full Story: Space (11/4)

Spaceflight

Japan's DESTINY+ asteroid mission delayed to 2025

(JAXA)

DESTINY+, an acronym constructed from "Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for Interplanetary Voyage, Phaethon Flyby and Dust Science," will study the asteroid 3200 Phaethon - the parent of the Geminid meteor shower - and interplanetary dust.

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Science & Astronomy

JWST could solve mysteries of the Milky Way's heart

(NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, STScI)

Ever since astronomers first laid their eyes on the sparkling spiral arms of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, they have wondered what processes might drive the evolution of these massive, star-studded structures.

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SpaceX

SpaceX Artist-in-Residence on painting spacecraft

(Agnieszka Pilat)

Provocative Silicon Valley artist Agnieszka Pilat has strong beliefs regarding the intermingling of art, religion and technology, something that keeps her fertile muse alert amid multiple presentations, exhibitions and appearances at global events such as the recent TED AI 2023 conference in San Francisco.

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Technology

Sci-fi inspired tractor beams could solve space junk

(Tobias Roetsch)

Scientists are developing a real-life tractor beam, dubbed an electrostatic tractor. This tractor beam wouldn't suck in helpless starship pilots, however. Instead, it would use electrostatic attraction to nudge hazardous space junk safely out of Earth orbit.

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Entertainment

See 1st 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' teaser

(20th Century Studios)

According to this fresh preview, director Wes Ball's next installment in the iconic "Planet of the Apes" franchise chronicles the continuing clash between humanity and intelligent apes.

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