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November 5, 2024

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How to vote from space: ISS astronauts cast 2024 ballots

(NASA)

Despite their extra-long stay on orbit and all the maintenance and research responsibilities that come with living aboard the ISS, Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are still managing to vote in the 2024 election. (So, you really have no excuse not to cast a ballot of your own.)

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Space Quiz! What's one possible source keeping Jupiter's moon Europa warm enough to support an underground liquid ocean?

Learn the answer here!

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Rocket Lab launches mystery mission on 12th launch of 2024

(Rocket Lab)

Rocket Lab launched a hush-hush mission early Tuesday morning (Nov. 5). The mission, for a "confidential commercial customer," lifted off atop an Electron vehicle from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Tuesday at 5:56 a.m. EST (0956 GMT).

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Put Interest On Ice Until Nearly 2026

Did you know some credit cards can actually help you get out of debt faster? Yes, it sounds crazy. But it's true. The secret: Find a card with a "0% intro APR" period for balance transfers. Then, transfer your debt balance and pay it down as much as possible during the intro period. No interest means you could pay off the debt faster. Find out more

Spaceflight

Mysterious X-37B begins 'aerobraking' to lower orbit

(Boeing Space)

In a rare show of openness about the space plane's operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last month explaining that the X-37B would soon begin a series of "aerobraking" maneuvers to begin lowering its orbit and safely disposing of unnecessary hardware before it comes down for a landing on Earth.

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Science & Astronomy

Hubble watches neutron stars collide to create black hole

(O.S. SALAFIA, G. GHIRLANDA, CXC/NASA, GSFC, B. WILLIAMS ET AL)

Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black hole ever seen and forged precious metals like gold, silver, and uranium.

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SpaceX

SpaceX launches 3 tons of cargo on 31st ISS resupply flight

(NASA)

SpaceX launched nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) tonight (Nov. 4). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today at 9:29 p.m. EST (0129 GMT on Tuesday, Nov. 5), kicking off SpaceX's 31st robotic resupply mission to the ISS for NASA.

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Technology

AstroForge gets FCC license for commercial asteroid mining

(AstroForge)

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to launch and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid in early 2025.

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Search for Life

Jupiter's moons hide giant subsurface oceans, maybe life

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)

There are many reasons my colleagues and I are looking forward to getting the data that Europa Clipper and JUICE will hopefully be sending back to Earth in the 2030s. But perhaps the most exciting information will have to do with water. Three of Jupiter's moons - Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are home to large, underground oceans of liquid water that could support life.

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