Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance
The European Space Agency's Hera mission captured imagery of Earth and the moon shrinking as the spacecraft was en route to the asteroid Dimorphos.
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U.S. government issues travel warning for 3 more cruise ports
All United States State Department travel advisories are not created equally. The agency, for example, has given Haiti its ...
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The bomb in our bodies: The Nuclear Cluster at Hunters Point
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former base for atomic bomb testing, has lead to a cluster of health issues.
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We're entering the era of private space stations
The era of the International Space Station (ISS) is coming to a close. In the near future, NASA plans to bring down the ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
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Aging Voyager 1 Restarts a Radio it Hasn’t Used Since 1981–Prompted from 15 Billion Miles Away
Recently, a days-long communication blackout was triggered after a radio command sent by Earth to turn on the probe's heaters ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Successfully Revives Antique Transmitter Last Used in 1981 to Prolong its Historic Mission
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...
University of Iowa instrument among last still running decades into Voyager space missions
Nearly 47 years ago, two NASA spacecrafts were bound for one of the grandest journeys across our solar system to fly by and ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
Voyager is a NASA mission made up of two different spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, which launched to space on Sept. 5, 1977, and Aug. 20, 1977, respectively. In the decades following launch, the pair ...