Webinar Replay – Race to the Moon
03 Jul
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Webinar Replay – Race to the Moon

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NASA Space Technology Posted inNewsJoin our expert panelists as they dive into the growing race for moon resources. With nations and companies now vying for water, metals, and minerals across the lunar surface, will NASA’s commercial strategy prove effective? And can countries coexist in this new frontier?Webinar IntroductionPanelistsMike GoldChief Growth OfficerRewireYao SongCo-CEO, Co-founderOrienspaceBlaine CurcioFounderOrbital GatewayConsultingNamrata GoswamiAuthor, Professor, FounderPete WordenExecutive DirectorBreakthrough StarshotModeratorDavid AriostoHostSpaceNewsRelated
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Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days
03 Jul
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Volunteer Crew to Exit NASA’s Simulated Mars Habitat After 378 Days

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NASA Space Technology Abbey A. DonaldsonJul 02, 2024The four volunteers who have been living and working inside NASA’s first simulated yearlong Mars habitat mission are set to exit their ground-based home on Saturday, July 6. NASA will provide live coverage of the crew’s exit from the habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston at 5 p.m. EDT.NASA will stream the activity, which will include a short welcome ceremony, onNASA+, NASA Televisionthe NASA appthe agency’s websiteand NASA Johnson’s X and Facebook accounts. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms, including social media.The first Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) mission began in the 3D printed habitat on June 25, 2023, with crew members Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell, and Nathan Jones. For more than a year, the crew simulated...
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission
03 Jul
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission

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NASA Space Technology NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission.The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of approximately $69 million, which includes launch services and other mission related costs. The COSI mission currently is targeted to launch August 2027 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.This wide-field gamma-ray telescope will study energetic phenomena in the Milky Way and beyond, including the creation and destruction of matter and antimatter and the final stages of the lives of stars. NASA’s COSI mission will probe the origins of the Milky Way’s galactic positrons, uncover the sites of nucleosynthesis in our galaxy, perform studies of gamma-ray polarization, and find counterparts to multi-messenger sources. The compact Compton telescope combines improved...
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