This startup is one step closer to making drugs in space
Varda Space Industries successfully manufactured a sample of HIV medication on board its spacecraft and returned it safely to Earth.
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Disney Channel actress launching space data startup
Bridgit Mendler, an actress and singer best known for her roles in Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Lemonade Mouth,” is adding a CEO title to her resume with her satellite data startup Northwood Space.
Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ wakes upside-down on Moon, immediately starts snapping pics
Japan’s “Moon Sniper” rover on Monday regained power and has woken up on the Moon, a surprise turnaround for the country’s historic space mission after its successful “pinpoint” landing on the lunar surface more than a week was marred by technical challenges and forced into hibernation.
100 trillion: Meet the Aussies on a mission to clean up space junk
Space Machines Company launched in 2019 with a mission to clean up space junk and service the some-7,000 satellites orbiting in the sky. After two-and-a-half-years in design-mode, its orbital servicing vehicle, Optimus, is ready for take-off, on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch in March 2024.
Prada will help design NASA spacesuits
The Italian luxury fashion house is teaming up with commercial space company, Axiom House, to design NASA lunar spacesuits for its Artemis III mission. The new partnership will see Prada’s engineers work alongside the Axiom Space systems team during the design process to develop solutions for materials and design features to protect astronauts from the […]
NASA plans to build houses on the moon by 2040
The US national space agency, NASA, is planning to build houses on the moon by 2040 – and Mars could be next.
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth — scientists hope it will bring evidence of how life began
A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say may help unlock the secrets of the solar system’s origins and solve the mystery of how life began.
5 asteroids – some as big as planes – will pass by earth this week: Here’s what we know
The largest asteroid is RH, an 89-foot asteroid the size of an airplane.
Best photos of the rare blue supermoon – that won’t be seen again until 2037
The lunar event combined a blue moon, seen only every few years, with a supermoon, which occurs when the moon is closest to Earth.
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