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NASA prepares Artemis II rocket core stage for final assembly phase
NASA and its partners have fully secured the four RS-25 engines onto the core stage of the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis II flight test. The core stage, and its engines, is the backbone of the SLS mega rocket that will power the flight test, the first crewed mission to the Moon under Artemis.
Engineers have begun final integration testing at NASA's Michoud Assem HALO Space successfully completes second battery of test flights
HALO Space, the space tourism company with which GMV collaborates, recently carried out the second round of test flights for its space tourism trips in the dry lake of Cuddeback (California, USA), a habitual area for experimental flights.
This phase involves the execution of a series of flights, four in particular, as a proof of concept. These tests are performed by lifting the capsule wit Accelerating interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure
Lunar exploration is expanding at a rapid pace, and a robust lunar economy within the next decade is coming quickly into focus. It's clear that many shareable, scalable commercial systems will be needed to support a future lunar ecosystem. Yet a key question remains: How will these systems interface?
Through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium (LOGIC), DARPA will convene sta Beyond the Frigid Void: Per Wimmer's Adventures in the Shadows of the Known
Imagine, if you dare, a realm where temperatures dive to an unearthly 55 degrees below Celsius. A place where every breath feels like a thousand icy needles, and the vast expanse of Earth seems an eerie, distant mirage. Few souls dare to venture here, but for one man, it's just another thrilling chapter in his tapestry of adventures...
Brad Bartz of Spacedaily.com sat down with the fearles Unifying matter, energy and consciousness
With the rise of brain-interface technology and artificial intelligence that can imitate brain functions, understanding the nature of consciousness and how it interacts with reality is not just an age-old philosophical question but also a salient challenge for humanity.
Can AI become conscious, and how would we know? Should we incorporate human or animal cells, such as neurons, into machin Could a new law of physics support the idea we're living in a computer simulation?
A University of Portsmouth physicist has explored whether a new law of physics could support the much-debated theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world.
The simulated universe hypothesis proposes that what humans experience is actually an artificial reality, much like a computer simulation, in which they themselves are constructs.
The theory is popular among a 'Ring of fire' eclipse moves across the Americas, bringing with it cheers and shouts of joy
!['Ring of fire' eclipse moves across the Americas, bringing with it cheers and shouts of joy](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/ring-of-fire-eclipse-m-2.jpg "The moon passes between earth and the sun during a rare "ring of fire" eclipse of the sun Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer")
First came the darkening skies, then the crescent-shaped shadows on the ground, and finally an eruption of cheers by crowds that gathered Saturday along the narrow path of a rare "ring of fire" eclipse of the sun.
It was a spectacular show for millions of people across the Americas as the moon moved into place and the ring formed.
There were hoots, hollers and yelps for those with an unfettered view in Albuquerque, where the celestial event coincided with an international balloon fiesta that typically draws tens of thousands of spectators and hundreds of hot air balloon pilots from around the world.
Osiris-Rex: NASA reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid
On September 24 this year, a NASA capsule parachuted down to Earth carrying a precious cache of material grabbed from an asteroid. The space agency has now revealed images and a preliminary analysis of the space rocks it found after lifting the lid off that capsule.
The mission to the asteroid was called Osiris-Rex, and in 2020, it collected a sample of material from the asteroid Bennu. Afterward, it traveled back to Earth and released the capsule containing the rocks into our atmosphere three weeks ago.
The fine black dust and small coal-like rocks shimmering in the capsule are beautiful—and somewhat unassuming. But this handful of space rock has the potential to answer questions about not only how the Earth was created, but also how water arrived here and how life got started.
'Ring of fire' solar eclipse will cut across the Americas, stretching from Oregon to Brazil
US astronaut gets used to Earth after record-setting 371 days in space
After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity.
"Walking hurts a little bit the first few days, the soles of your feet and lower back," he said at a news conference Friday at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
