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NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever - Ars Technica When NASA astronauts return to the Moon in a few years, they will do so inside a lander that dwarfs that of the Apollo era. SpaceX's Starship vehicle measures 50 meters from its nose cone to landing legs. By...

Supersonic jet company Aerion partners with NASA on high-speed point-to-point travel - Tech Crunch Aerion has been working on ushering in a new era of commercial supersonic flight for nearly a decade now, and the company just revealed that it has signed a new partnership with NASA to put that...

Hear a sound bite from NASA's Perseverance as it travels along the final frontier - Chron You can now hear a sound bite from NASA's Perseverance as it travels along the final frontier. A first of its kind, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance was rigged with microphones to capture...

Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft - BBC Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail. Fifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that jeopardised the lives of the three...

Virtually Travel to Space With This Free NASA App - House Beautiful As you wait to see April's Super Pink Moon in the night sky, you can find celestial beauty online by live streaming the northern lights. If you're looking for a more interactive galactic experience, though, you can virtually...

NASA making its Moon mission commercial could signal a paradigm shift for deep-space travel - The Verge NASA has the opportunity to demonstrate a new way of exploring space — will the space agency take it? NASA is now mulling over the idea of using commercial rockets to launch a critical...

The Mars rover Opportunity is dead. Here's what it gave humankind. - National Geographic The spacecraft lasted more than 50 times longer than originally planned, delivering groundbreaking science and inspiring a generation. After more than 14 years driving across the surface of Mars, the NASA...

NASA to send humans to the moon once again - 'but this time we'll stay' - Sky News The space agency says it wants astronauts to spend more time on the lunar surface as it looks to send them within the next decade. NASA is planning to take the "next giant leap in deep space exploration" as it...