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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
Watch NASA Test Its Giant New S.L.S. Moon Rocket
A test earlier this year of the Space Launch System core stage was marred by errors,…
The Space Launch System: NASA's Last Rocket
The United States is unlikely to build anything like the Space Launch System ever again. But…
China and Russia Agree to Explore the Moon Together
The two countries, moving increasingly closer, signed a memorandum of agreement to collaborate on lunar missions,…
Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch
An engineer for the company responsible for the shuttle’s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take…
The Moon's Comet-Like Tail Shoots Beams Around the Earth
“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the…
Watch SpaceX's Starship Test Launch
Two earlier high-altitude flights of the Starship spacecraft crashed spectacularly after successful liftoffs. Click…
Hunting for a Giant Black Hole, Astronomers Found a Nest of Darkness
No Gargantua dwells at the heart of stellar cluster NGC 6397. Instead, a few dozen smaller…
NASA's Mars Parachute Had a Hidden Code. Meet the People Who Cracked It.
Engineers hinted they had hidden a code in the parachute that landed the Perseverance rover. Within…