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Tuesday 24 November 2020
The findings may have implications for future missions to the moon.
NASA is to announce “new science results” about the Moon tomorrow.
The probe is thought to have collected some 400 grams of fragments, far more than the minimum of 60 grams needed.
Only Japan has previously collected asteroid samples.
The capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at the expected time of 7.48pm.
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are set to come back to Earth tomorrow evening.
The rocket took off in California despite a 4.2 magnitude earthquake.
If all goes as planned, the mission will see SpaceX become the first private company to send astronauts into space.
“I’m still alive. As long as I can keep breathing, I’m good,” mission commander Jim Lovell (92) said.
It will be the fifth exploratory vehicle on the Red Planet.
As investment in spacetech increases, the Irish tech sector has something to phone home about.
Christina Koch also made history as one half of the first-ever all-woman spacewalk.
The two-day demo was originally due to last for over a week.
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
Vice President Mike Pence has said failure to return to the moon by 2024 is “not an option”.
Nasa said it does its best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes, but that a person’s body may change when they’re in orbit.
The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The launch is a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil.
The last person to walk on the moon was Eugene Cernan in December 1972, and Nasa wants to change that.
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
We have the details on what its next few weeks will be like.
A lovely sight this grim morning.
More than half of 43 attempts to reach Mars with rovers, orbiters and probes have failed.
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
The $1 billion probe blasted off this morning.
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
After an aborted launch yesterday, the Parker space probe finally got its seven-year mission to the Sun under way this morning.
The launch will be attempted again tomorrow.
The helicopter is being sent as part of the Mars 2020 mission.
The satellite is expected to catalogue thousands of planets.
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
IRELAND’S LEVEL 5 restrictions are set to come to an end on Tuesday next week, 1 December, and the government is set to decide later this week what will be implemented to replace them.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Irish Examiner this morning that the country will move back to Level Three restrictions from 1 December, allowing non-essential retail to reopen in time for the Christmas trade.
While retail stores look set to reopen, allowing people to get their Christmas shopping done in person, many people are still opting to do a lot of their festive shopping online their year.
So, today we want to know… Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping in person?
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