21 Dec, 2024

Ars takes a clean room tour of JPL’s asteroid-orbiting Psyche spacecraft

Ars Technica has the opportunity to get around the Laboratory of NASA’s jet propulsion in California this week, according to the clean rooms sneaking on the soul spaceship now approaching the completion. This ambitious mission, named after the eponymus asteroid it will be explored, will be launched in August on the Falcon Heavy rocket. Scientists […]

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NASA Just Opened a 50-Year-Old Time Capsule From the Moon for the First Time

In December 1972, Astronaut NASA Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt was drilled to the surface of the moon to collect moon soil samples for transportation back to earth. This week, NASA finally opened one of the sealed vacuum samples for the first time “We have the opportunity to open this very valuable sample which has […]

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