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NASA delays dress rehearsal of new Mega rocket

April 4, 2022
Today, NASA suspended the last major test of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket after pressurization issues prevented technicians from safely loading propellants into the rocket. The test — known as a wet dress rehearsal — has been postponed until Monday, April 4th at the earliest, NASA announced in a post on the Artemis I live blog. “Teams have decided to scrub tanking operations for the…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S22 is $100 off at Best Buy today only

April 1, 2022
We’re kicking off April Fools’ Day with a deal that’s dead serious. For today only, Best Buy is knocking $100 off the price of the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S22. The 128GB and 256GB models of the S22 are currently discounted to $699.99 and $749.99, respectively. Just…
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What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars

April 1, 2022
A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails. Listen closely to sounds from Mars, recorded by NASA’s Perseverance: the rover’s mechanical whine and click in a light Martian wind; the whir of rotors on Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter; the crackling strike of a…
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Watch Blue Origin launch its fourth crewed mission to space

March 31, 2022
This morning, space tourism venture Blue Origin will launch its fourth passenger flight to the edge of space and back — but this time, there won’t be any big name celebrities on board. Six crew members — five paying customers and one company employee — will be flying…
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SpaceX pausing production of new Crew Dragon spacecraft

March 28, 2022
SpaceX says it will no longer build new vehicles of its Crew Dragon capsule, the spacecraft the company uses to take humans to and from the International Space Station, according to a report in Reuters. The plan for now is to cap the Crew Dragon fleet for carrying humans at four, which SpaceX will re-fly again and again to get crews to space. “We are finishing our final [capsule], but we still…
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NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker

March 24, 2022
. NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take dramatically different approaches to studying the sky. Loading Image…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored

March 24, 2022
. NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored The team behind the agency’s history-making rotorcraft soars, picking up high-profile awards alongside a new-and-improved system to assess asteroid orbits. The Ingenuity team received the club’s preeminent award, the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, which honors a person…
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