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The best that Tiger Team RAMA could do was look at what facilities with containment and purification capabilities were doing to stay that way and not give up hope of combining them in the best way possible.All of the BSL-4 labs the team…

"We are going."That is the catch phrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 am Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as a…

The rock appeared exactly where it should have been - captured in the drill bit of NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance.After a baffling failure last month, NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, successfully collected a rock sample on…

Jeff Bezos, owner of Blue Origin, unveils a new lunar module called the Blue Moon during an event at the Washington Convention Center on May 9, 2019 in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson | Getty ImagesJeff Bezos flew into space late last month,…

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building has a slim chance of hitting Earth.Do not worry. You'll be dead long before this has a chance. So will your children. Probably all of your grandchildren too.At a news conference on…

For Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, NASA certainly hopes the second time’s the charm.Boeing is one of two companies that NASA has hired to take its astronauts to and from the International Space Station. (SpaceX is the other, with its Crew…

GAO also said that NASA rated the three proposals fairly, and while they agreed that NASA wrongly waived a requirement for SpaceX, that mistake wasn't serious enough to retry the competition."Despite this result, the decision also concludes…

Dave Scott wollte nicht an einem interessanten Felsen vorbeikommen, ohne anzuhalten. Es war der 31. Juli 1971, und er und Jim Irwin, sein Apollo-15-Astronautenkollege, waren die ersten Menschen, die den Mond betraten. Nach einem…

This time NASA's Mars robotic helicopter Ingenuity did not return.That was intentional.On Friday, Ingenuity, which last month became the first machine to fly like an airplane or a helicopter on another world, took off for the fifth time.…

"I do," said Mr. Nelson. "The competition is always good."Mr Smith said NASA has hired more than one company in the past with programs similar to space station missions, despite a lack of security for future budgets.The Blue Origin-led…