Neil deGrasse Tyson knows a thing or two about the universe. The famed astrophysicist has studied and searched the cosmos for years without ever leaving Earth's atmosphere, but that could all change with new developments in space travel. Visionary billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are working to create whole new industries in outer space, and according to Tyson, the key to success is finding a way to do it for cheap.
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Boeing's Starliner Lands Safely Back To Earth After Aborted Space Mission : NPR
Boeing, NASA, and U.S. Army personnel work around the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed in White Sands, N.M., Sunday. Bill Ingalls/AP hide caption
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday, landing safely in the New Mexico desert.
The journey is being hailed as a major achievement despite failing to complete a core objective: docking at the international space station.
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Cruise passengers are often disappointed when something goes awry — a skipped port, an unexpected itinerary shuffle, an unsatisfying meal. Most of the time, those issues are just hiccups in an otherwise good trip. But for passengers aboard the Norwegian Spirit in October, the letdowns piled up for days until they saw no choice but to protest.
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Michael Bradley just wanted to get his vacation off the ground. And if that meant putting in a little extra work on the way, so be it. The EasyJet pilot was off-duty when his flight was supposed to go from Manchester, England, to Alicante, Spain. But to avoid a two-hour delay, he offered to hop in the cockpit himself.
Researchers using AI to study astronauts during space travel
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After missing orbit, spacecraft makes historic landing in New Mexico
FARMINGTON – In grainy, low-resolution footage , a white dot grows larger as it slowly floats to Earth with the support of three large parachutes before coming to rest on sandy desert.
The landing of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft – the white dot – at White Sands Missile Range on Sunday morning marked the first completed touchdown of the human-ready space capsule, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s announcement .
Could radiation in deep space fry astronauts' brains?
Even though it happened half a century ago, the Moon landing remains one of the most ambitious space exploration projects ever. The future, however, holds even more exciting and longer flights. It takes about a week to get to the moon and back, depending on the route. But the much-talked-about trip to Mars would take us, at a minimum, 8 months — one way.
We are still unsure about the impact that this radiation exposure could have on astronauts' bodies. New research done by a group led by Charles Limoli, a radiation oncologist at the University of California, Irvine, suggests that chronic, low dose radiation can lead to severe impairments in learning and memory, as well as distress behaviors — at least in mice.
DLR phantoms undergo fit check in NASA's Orion space capsule
Watch Out! The Betelgeuse Star is About to Explode | Asgardia - The Space Nation
Betelgeuse, a star that’s part of the Orion constellation and one of the brightest stars in our night sky, is fading. Usually, that means that it’s about to explode in a supernova. For Betelgeuse, the event would take place sometime between now and 100,000 years from now
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Scientists say that the nearby red supergiant’s measure of brightness is at its modern all-time low. Villanova University ’s team published their findings in The Astronomer’s Telegram .
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#OTD 12/20/1996: Carl Sagan left this pale blue dot behind. His vision, and his words, inspire us still. Enjoy this… https://t.co/KsrjdYxw7D StarTalkRadio (from New York City) Sat Dec 21 02:08:00 +0000 2019
I'm interviewing Neil Degrasse Tyson this afternoon. What do you want me to ask him? Toure (from Working on a book) Mon Dec 16 15:28:03 +0000 2019
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