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NASA’s Fuel-less Space Engine Has Been Tested

EmDrive, the physics-defying contraption ostensibly produces thrust, no fuel required. Spaceflight is hard. Blasting heavy cargo, spacecraft, and maybe people to respectable speeds over interplanetary distances requires an amount of propellant too massive for current rockets to haul into the void.

A Giant Leap: Who Will Be The First Woman On The Moon

NASA -- Fifty years after the Apollo Program ended, NASA is once again planning to set foot on the moon and they target to make it happen by 2024. They said this is to provide grounding on the testing of the new generation of space crafts that have since been developed and improved ahead of its mission to Mars.

Next Solar Cycle Would Be at its Lowest in 2020

The activity on the surface of the sun triggers space weather. As the sun follows an 11-year-old long cycle of solar maximums and minimums, there are several factors affecting space weather that worry scientists.

Container Pod for Mars 2020 Sample-Return Unveiled

ESA officials stated that NASA will launch the sample-return lander mission which will land near the Mars 2020 site Later, the sample-fetch rover, a small ESA rover will then head out to retrieve the samples.

NASA Announces Plans to Put a Woman on the Moon in 2024

There will be a seat on the 2024 lunar mission specially reserved for a woman. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepherd, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke Jr.

10 Years Later, NASA Explains Why Two Rocket Launches Were Failures

NASA lets everyone in on what exactly happened to two Taurus XL launches. A little more than a decade ago, on February 24, 2009, a Taurus XL rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a NASA satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

OSCAR: The Space Janitor

Researchers are developing a cleanup CubeSat which would hunt down and de-orbit debris on the cheap using onboard nets and tethers.

SpaceX Crew Dragon’s Engine Test Ends in Smoke

The Cape Canaveral tests had problems. "On April 20, 2019, an anomaly occurred at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during the Dragon 2 static test fire," Wing Spokesman Jim Williams said in a statement.

NASA Sends Mice on a Mission in Space

Female mice were sent to a rodent habitat in the ISS for 37 days. As part of an experiment, NASA sent 20 female mice to the International Space Station with the goal of observing their reaction to microgravity-both short and long term-and then further learning about how both humans and animals will possibly adapt to a different environment in space.

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