NASA astronauts who will take part in the most distant human space missions to date will also take iPhones with them, opening up a whole new scenario for the use of commercial consumer electronics in …
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How an overturned concrete mixer became a “NASA space capsule”
Traffic accidents are usually quickly forgotten, especially if there were no casualties, but one from way back in 1959 has left behind a permanent monument and has been turned into a recognizable tourist attraction. It …
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NASA has some very bad news about the spacecraft orbiting Mars
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which has been studying the upper atmosphere of Mars for more than a decade, suddenly stopped communicating with Earth. The spacecraft was supposed to send telemetry data, …
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A NASA probe suddenly went silent after trying to track an interstellar 3I/ATLAS object approaching Earth
NASA has released new details after it lost contact with the MAVEN spacecraft, just days after its close encounter with the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which is currently approaching Earth. The probe stopped transmitting on December …
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