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An on-the-ground look at Blue Origin’s motley crew

July 21, 2021

Today, Wally Funk, 81, and Oliver Daemen, 18, made history as the oldest and youngest people ever to go to space. They hitched a ride with Jeff Bezos and his brother, Mark, aboard the New Shepard, a rocket made by Bezos’ company, Blue Origin. Blue Origin will eventually sell seats, though Bezos declined to say how much they’d sell for. “We’ll be announcing that later,” Bezos said, when…

Journey to the Center of Mars With the InSight Lander Team

July 21, 2021

. Journey to the Center of Mars With the InSight Lander Team Scientists will talk about new findings in a question-and-answer session with the news media and public. Scientists working with NASA’s InSight Mars lander will share…

Signs of Life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins the Hunt

July 21, 2021

. Signs of Life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins the Hunt Your browser cannot play the provided video file(s). After testing a bristling array of instruments on its robotic arm, NASA’s latest Mars rover gets down to business…

NASA Study Finds Tropical Forests’ Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide Is Waning

July 21, 2021

. NASA Study Finds Tropical Forests’ Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide Is Waning The finding comes out of an effort to map where vegetation is emitting and soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Earth’s trees and plants pull vast amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during photosynthesis, incorporating some of that carbon into…

Space billionaires get skewered in the first promo for Jon Stewart’s Apple TV show

July 20, 2021

Jon Stewart shared a video promoting his upcoming Apple TV Plus show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it’s an odd one: the three-minute and ten-second clip shared on Twitter is a comedy skit roasting the recent billionaire space race, starring Jason Alexander as Jeff…

NASA to Brief Early Science From Perseverance Mars Rover

July 17, 2021

. NASA to Brief Early Science From Perseverance Mars Rover Panelists will discuss the rover’s recently started science campaign and groundwork for its next major milestone. NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT…

NASA’s Juno Tunes Into Jovian Radio Triggered by Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

July 16, 2021

. NASA’s Juno Tunes Into Jovian Radio Triggered by Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io The Juno Waves instrument “listened” to the radio emissions from Jupiter’s immense magnetic field to find their precise locations. By listening to the rain of electrons flowing onto Jupiter from its intensely volcanic moon Io, researchers using NASA’s Juno…

NASA Tracks Heat Wave Over US Southwest

July 16, 2021

. NASA Tracks Heat Wave Over US Southwest While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures. Just weeks after the Pacific…

Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter

July 15, 2021

. Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter The probe flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the icy orb and the gas…

Space startup Momentus charged by SEC with misleading investors

July 14, 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged embattled space infrastructure startup Momentus Space and its founder, Mikhail Kokorich, with allegedly misleading investors about its propulsion technology and downplaying regulators’ national security concerns associated with Kokorich, who is Russian. The SEC also charged the company, Stable Road Acquisition Corp, that was going to…