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NASA crewed spaceflight

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on NASA crewed spaceflight.

  1. Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy

    Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy

    JADES-GS-z14-0 comfortably beats the previous record for oldest known galaxy, which was held by JADES-GS-z13-0 which was present 320 million years after the…

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  2. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is viewed inside a Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 11 April 2024 in Pasadena, California. The spacecraft is scheduled to investigate and perform flybys of Europa, Jupiter’s moon.

    Hunt for ET extends to Jupiter’s moon

    Mission managers do not expect to find little green men swimming in the water — in fact, they’re not even looking for life itself, only for the conditions that…

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  3. ARTEMIS II.

    NASA’s Artemis II crew rehearses splashdown

    If all goes well, the crew will fly around the Moon during a 10-day expedition aboard an Orion capsule, ending with a parachute-assisted descent into the sea.

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  7. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF NASA ASTEROID Psyche was originally thought to be made up mostly of metal. The probe to reach it in 2029 may prove otherwise.

    NASA probing Psyche’s dark core

    The van-sized probe should arrive at its destination in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, in July 2029.

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  8. Life on Earth seeded from space?

    Life on Earth seeded from space?

    Scientists believe the reason Earth has oceans, lakes and rivers is because it was hit with water-carrying asteroids 4 to 4.5 billion years ago, making it a…

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