As chance would have it, two such rockets are currently sitting on launchpads. Each should ultimately exceed the power of the mighty Saturn V, which sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon.
Over in Texas, Starship, a similarly capable but wildly different rocket being developed by SpaceX, is also in preparation to launch on its first orbital test flight as early as May, pending regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Science, Spacewalks Preps Underway as Crew-4 Targets Launch – Space Station
It was a very busy day aboard the International Space Station as the 11-person crew focused on human research experiments and spacewalk preparations. Back on Earth, four Commercial Crew astronauts are in quarantine ahead of their planned to launch to the orbiting lab in less than two weeks.
Mapping the atmosphere on Mars can help advance science on our own planet | MIT Technology Review
With its Emirates Mars Mission, also known as the Hope Probe, the UAE has established itself as only the fifth country in history to reach Mars and the seventh in the world to reach the orbit of another planet.
The Emirates Mars Mission is unique in that the troves of data collected by Hope are being released to the public. "This contributes to a more knowledge-based economy and fosters the science community's capabilities as a collective.
China Space Station and international collaboration
China has launched the first stages of its space station. International projects selected to come aboard may be ready to fly from late 2022.
In 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth and began the era of manned space flight. Manned space activities have since diverged into two tracks: space exploration, such as the Apollo program; and scientific research in space, such as Mir and the International Space Station (ISS) .
This may be the first private station in space | Science
There are now fourteen people in space: eleven aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and three more aboard China’s Tiangong. The four who make up the Axiom Mission will return to Earth in a few days, leaving their comrades on long-term missions.
The last flight contracted by Axiom Space was presented as just another whim of multimillionaire adventurers. Indeed, it is part of an ambitious project that should culminate in a few years with the first private space station.
NASA aiming for big 2023 thanks to generous budget request | Space
The White House's generosity has NASA poised to do big things in 2023 and beyond, according to the space agency's deputy chief.
"The $26 billion fiscal year 2023 budget request is 8% more than enacted federal spending levels for fiscal year 2022, affirming the importance of civil space to the Biden-Harris administration and to the strategic future of the United States," NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said last ...
US Military Confirms Object That Hit Earth in 2014 Was Interstellar - CNET
In this illustration, an asteroid is shown in the foreground in the lower left. The two bright points above it on the far left are Earth (right) and the moon (left). The sun appears on the right.
In 2019, two of the Harvard researchers who studied Oumuamua in depth drafted a new paper positing that an extremely speedy meteorite that blazed a trail through the atmosphere in 2014 was also interstellar.
Space wars: Who speaks for Earth? - EastMojo
In his best-selling book Cosmos astronomer Carl Sagan asks: "Who speaks for Earth?
Fortunately, over the ensuing decades international cooperation has increased significantly.
The ISS is a good example of a positive geopolitical driver for space cooperation because it was, at least in part, born out of a post–Cold War desire to build diplomatic bridges between Russia and the West.
Final James Webb Space Telescope instrument reaches super-cold operating temperature | Space
The James Webb Space Telescope notched a cool milestone — literally — during its months-long calibration for deep-space observations.
The final instrument aboard the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope finally achieved its operating temperature of just above absolute zero.
James Webb Space Telescope will observe 100 galaxies at once | Space
"One of the rules for building spacecraft is to have as few moving parts as possible," Andy Bunker, Oxford University astrophysicist, grins. "And that's why we have built something that has a quarter million shutters."
Bunker is talking about NIRSpec, the Near Infrared Spectrograph, one of the four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope , that are just getting ready to open their eyes to the cosmos.
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