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☆ How much of Musk’s wealth comes from tax dollars and government help?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Government crucial to Musk’s net worthIt’s worthwhile to ask just how much of his world-leading net worth comes from government help over the last 10 to 15 years. Tesla and SpaceX got started – and survived their early days – with assistance from state and federal policies, government contracts and loans. Tesla buyers received federal tax credits worth an estimated $3.4 billion before the perk disappeared entirely for Tesla buyers at the end of 2019. “Take away the subsidies, it will only help Tesla,” Musk posted on his social media platform X in July. According to USASpending.gov, the government database that tracks federal spending, SpaceX has signed contracts worth nearly $20 billion.

Persons: New York CNN — Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Musk, ”, Daniel Ives, SpaceX doesn’t, Tesla’s, Noah Berger, Tesla, Trump, ” Musk, Elon Musk, Frederic J . Brown, Ives, Brandon Bell, USASpending.gov, Casey Dreier, ” Dreier, “ Elon, Dreier, CNN’s Jackie Wattles Organizations: New, New York CNN, SpaceX, Trump, Government, Wedbush Securities, Reuters, Department of Energy, Biden, US, Tesla, Getty, NASA, International Space, Planetary Society Locations: New York, Fremont , California, Hawthorne , California, AFP, Brownsville , Texas, Russia

☆ VIPER moon rover: Inside the scramble to save NASA’s canceled lunar vehicle
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

And the availability of the VIPER spacecraft piqued the company’s interest for future projects, Intuitive Machines told CNN. To get reach that goal, Intuitive Machines will likely have to dip into its own funds to complete VIPER’s finishing touches before liftoff. The Simulated Lunar Operations Lab at NASA Glenn Research Center tested planetary roving vehicle systems and components for vehicles such as the VIPER Rover. The Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander (pictured here in a rendering) is now slated to take off no earlier than late 2025. The lunar lander was designed to carry NASA’s VIPER rover as its main payload.

Persons: There’s, ”, Jack Kiraly, VIPER, Tim Crain, Thomas Zurbuchen, Aubrey Gemignani, Crain, ” Crain, “, Josh Marshall, it’s, Astrobotic, Griffin, John Thornton, Chandan Khanna, Griffin’s, Thornton, ” Thornton, Kiraly, I’m, Sen, Shelley Moore Capito, luncheons, Craig Hudson, Jerry Moran, ” Kiraly, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Exploration Rover, NASA, Planetary Society, Research, Goddard Space Flight, Machines, NASA Glenn Research Center, VIPER Rover, Technology, United, Cape Canaveral Space Force, Getty, VIPER, Republican, Reuters Lawmakers, Commerce, Justice, Science, Kansas Republican Locations: Houston, Maryland, Nova, California, Pittsburgh, Cape, Cape Canaveral , Florida, West Virginia, Washington, Washington ,, China, Kansas

☆ NASA isn’t just creating a lunar time zone. It’s establishing an entirely new time scale
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

They’re also going to be communicating with one another or driving their moon buggies while on the lunar surface. Lunar clockworkWhat scientists know for certain is that they need to get precision timekeeping instruments to the moon. Exactly who pays for lunar clocks, which type of clocks will go, and where they’ll be positioned are all questions that remain up in the air, Gramling said. Focke Strangmann/APThe new time scale would underpin an entire lunar network, which NASA and its allies have dubbed LunaNet. But how future astronauts living and working on the lunar surface will experience time is a different question entirely.

Persons: aren’t, Cheryl Gramling, NASA’s, Gramling, Omer Tarsuslu, They’re, ” Gramling, Albert Einstein, Paco, Sao, Sundials, —, ”, Bruce Betts, Kevin Coggins, you’ve, ” Coggins, “, Bijunath, Patla, ” Patla, Focke Strangmann, It’s, “ It’s, Betts, Artemis III, Arizona State University “ It’ll Organizations: CNN, NASA, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight, Getty, White, Astronauts, Planetary Society, NASA’s Space Communications, Navigation, US National Institute of Standards, Technology, Vehicles, Physical, National, European Space Agency, International Astronomical Union, Reconnaissance, Arizona State University Locations: United States, China, Maryland, Kars, Turkey, Anadolu, German, Sao Miguel, Evora , Portugal, Germany, Malapert Massif

☆ NASA’s space shuttle program reimagined rocketry. What went wrong?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers the events that ultimately led to disaster. Deemed an “engineering marvel,” the first of five winged orbiters — the space shuttle Columbia — made its inaugural flight in 1981. Crews aboard the recovery ships Liberty Star and Freedom Star retrieve a reusable right solid rocket booster (below) after a space shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:39 a.m. NASA Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003.

Persons: ”, Sean O’Keefe, Casey Dreier, Crews, O’Keefe, Scott Andrews, NASA's, Michael P, Anderson, William C, McCool, Rick D, David M, Brown, Laurel, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, Joe Skipper, Karl Ronstrom, Ramon, NASA Chawla, Clark, Chawla, Robert Giroux, Kathryn O'Neill, Zachary, Brett Coomer, Florida Sen, Bill Nelson, Matt Stroshane, Tommy Peltier, Eric Gay, Smiley, Gene Theriot, Sean O'Keefe, George W, Bush, Ron Dittemore, Joe Cavaretta, O'Keefe, Mannie Garcia, NASA Sandy Anderson, Carlos Noriega, Michael L, Coats, Evelyn Husband, Thomas, John Raoux, Glenn Benson, Kim Shiflett, Rodney Rocha, Columbia’s, Rick Husband, “ Roger, Sen, Mark Kelly, “, ” Kelly Organizations: CNN, Shuttle Columbia, Sunday, NASA, Columbia, America’s, Planetary Society, European Space Agency, Space, International Space, Hubble, Liberty Star, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Space Shuttle Columbia, Kennedy Space Center, Reuters Space Shuttle Columbia, Scott Andrews People, Control Center, Getty, NASA Space, Israeli Air Force, Space Shuttle, Red Team, Blue Team, Johnson Space Center, Former, Houston, Houston Chronicle, People, US Navy Corps, Columbia Reconstruction, NASA Workers, Astronauts Memorial Foundation, Reuters, Bannock, Bannock Junior, Senior, Bannock High School, Johnson Space, Challenger, Shuttle, East Texas Locations: Columbia, America’s Soviet, Florida, Houston, Israel, SPACEHAB, New York, Laguna Hills , California, Texas, San Augustine , Texas, Washington ,, Shoshone, Fort Hall , Idaho, New Mexico, East

☆ The total solar eclipse will create an optical illusion known as the Purkinje effect. Here’s how to see it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The phenomenon, now known as the Purkinje effect, explains why colors look different depending on how much light is present. Usually, the Purkinje effect unfolds slowly as day gives way to night. “What we’re seeing with the Purkinje effect isn’t actually happening. To see the Purkinje effect, people will have to take off their eclipse glasses, but they should do so only when looking at their surroundings, Rylander said. … The Purkinje effect is visible if you look at objects around you during occlusion, not at the sun,” Rylander said in an email.

Persons: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Will Snyder, James S, Snyder, It’s, ” Snyder, Grady Rylander III, Rylander, ” Rylander Organizations: CNN, Saint Louis Science, McDonnell, University of Texas, Saint Louis Science Center, Planetary Society Locations: Missouri, Mexico, United States, Canada, Austin

☆ How to check if your solar eclipse glasses are real
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Otherwise, experts say it’s absolutely necessary to wear certified eclipse glasses or use handheld solar viewers that meet a specific safety standard, known as ISO 12312-2, when watching all other phases of a total or partial solar eclipse. And sunglasses won’t work in place of eclipse glasses or solar viewers. Counterfeit eclipse glasses with black lenses that have straight left and right edges from China (top) are printed with text copied from real eclipse glasses, but the counterfeit glasses are missing the company address. Meanwhile, real eclipse glasses from American Paper Optics (bottom) have reflective lenses with curved left and right edges. Never look through an unfiltered optical device of any kind in this situation, even while wearing eclipse glasses.

Persons: ”, Rick Fienberg, “, ” Fienberg, Ronald Benner, doesn’t, ” Benner, Benner, ‘ I’m, ’ Organizations: CNN, American Astronomical Society, NASA, Planetary Society, American Optometric Association, Astronomical Society, ‘, Optics, APO, Eclipse, Force, “, AAS Locations: Mexico, United States, Canada, China, U.S, Cangnan, Europe

☆ Investing in Space: Where NASA made cuts in its underwhelming budget request
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC's Investing in Space newsletter offers a view into the business of space exploration and privatization, delivered straight to your inbox. A year ago, the space agency was seeking budgets of $27.2 billion and $27.7 billion for 2024 and 2025, respectively. Moreover, NASA's budget remains a tiny fraction (less than 0.4%!) But the branch isn't exactly enthused, with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall giving the 2025 request an "acceptable" grade. Space Force's budget has already surpassed NASA's, and the Pentagon is seeking $29.4 billion for the branch in 2025.

Persons: CNBC's Michael Sheetz, what's, Artemis, Frank Kendall, That's Organizations: House, NASA, Congress, Exploration Systems, Planetary Society, Air Force, Pentagon, Space Force, Security, NSSL

☆ Astrobiotic thinks it knows what caused the fuel leak that doomed the first US moon mission since Apollo
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAstrobotic has a theory for what may have caused its lander to fail on its mission to the moon. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. But its hopes were quickly dashed after a fuel leak caused a failure in the spacecraft's propellant system. It does, however, hope to gather as much scientific information as it can while the spacecraft is still operational, Business Insider previously reported. AdvertisementAnother US firm, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, aims to send its own NASA-backed spacecraft, Nova-C, toward the moon in mid-February.

Persons: —, Astrobotic, Peregrine Organizations: Service, Business, United Launch Alliance, United, NASA, Planetary Society Locations: Houston

☆ SpaceX Starship: What’s next for the most powerful rocket ever built
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Mere moments after SpaceX’s Starship system — the most powerful rocket ever built — was lost in a test flight Saturday, a somewhat complicated narrative around the vehicle began to emerge. “What we did today will provide invaluable data to continue rapidly developing Starship,” SpaceX said Saturday in a statement. SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday, November 18, 2023. The Starship spacecraft was then able to ignite its own engines and break away from the Super Heavy rocket booster to continue the mission. SpaceX's Starship rocket prototypes are seen at the SpaceX Starbase in Brownsville, Texas, on August 19, 2023.

Persons: CNN —, Artemis III —, Bill Nelson, SpaceX, —, Eric Gay, John Insprucker, Elon Musk, Jim Watson, Wayne Hale, they’ve, ” Hale, “, They’ve, ”, SpaceX’s, Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Wiseman, Glover, Hammock Koch, Hansen, Artemis, Bill Ingalls, Hale, Jeff Bezos, Lakiesha Hawkins, ” Hawkins, NASA isn’t, Apollo Hale, Neil A, Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E, Aldrin Jr, ” What’s, Veronica Cardenas, Reuters It’s Organizations: CNN, SpaceX, NASA, China, Super, International Astronautical, Getty, FAA, CSA, Canadian Space Agency, Orion, Planetary Society, SLS, Origin, Blue, Kennedy Space Center, Saturn, Earth, ” CNN, Reuters, Federal Aviation Administration Locations: Starbase, Boca Chica , Texas, Baku, Azerbaijian, Boca Chica, South Texas, AFP, Texas, Washington, Florida, “, SpaceX’s, Brownsville , Texas

☆ Fact Check: Bill Nye did not suggest spaceflight is impossible in clip on handling trash
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Science communicator Bill Nye’s remark that “we cannot leave the Earth” referred to disposal of the planet’s trash, not - as online posts taking his words out of context suggest - that human space travel is impossible. In the shortened video clip, Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society, says that the Earth is a “closed system,” adding that “we cannot leave the Earth.”“There’s no place to go. The student asked Nye about the ethical and practical implications of shooting trash into space to avoid putting it in landfills (timestamp 2.22s). Nye first answers that it would be “too expensive,” adding that the Earth is a “closed system” in the context of handling trash. Nye was responding to a question about why humans do not shoot trash into space; he was not suggesting that space travel is impossible.

Persons: Bill, Nye, Big, you’ve, ” Nye, Read Organizations: Planetary Society, YouTube, Columbia University, Reuters, Thomson

☆ How to watch the Orionid meteor shower — without the moon in the sky, you can catch the perfect view
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Maiya Focht | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Orionid meteor shower will peak early Saturday morning, raining down 10-20 meteors per hour. The moon sets before midnight on Friday, leaving a dark sky perfect for spotting shooting stars. AdvertisementAdvertisementIf you stay up late, are patient, and can handle putting your phone away for a while, you just might catch a view of the Orionid meteor shower this weekend. AdvertisementAdvertisementFind some dark skies for the best showHeadlands International Dark Sky Park, shown here, is an IDA certified spot in Michigan. "Look for prolonged explosions of light when viewing the Orionid meteor shower," per NASA.

Persons: —, you'll, Diana Robinson Organizations: Service, Northern, IDA, NASA, Orion, Planetary Society, NSSDC's Locations: Southern, Michigan

☆ Get ready for the next solar eclipse in April 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Sky-gazers across North America are in for a treat in 2024 when a total solar eclipse will pass over Mexico, the United States and Canada. That’s likely because a total solar eclipse won’t be visible across the contiguous US again until August 2044. The total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of Mexico, Canada and more than 10 US states, while a crescent-shaped partial solar eclipse is expected to appear in 49 states — weather permitting. During the 2017 total solar eclipse, a young woman was diagnosed with solar retinopathy, retinal damage from exposure to solar radiation, in both eyes after viewing the eclipse with what doctors believed were eclipse glasses not held to the safety standard. If you bought eclipse glasses to see the “ring of fire,” save your eclipse glasses and viewers for the total solar eclipse in April by storing them at room temperature in an envelope or their original packaging to avoid scratches.

Persons: Aubrey Gemignani, It’s, Prince Edward Island, Bruce Bennett Organizations: CNN, Americas, NASA, Planetary Society, American Astronomical Society Locations: North America, Mexico, United States, Canada, Oregon, Ocean, Texas , Oklahoma , Arkansas , Missouri , Illinois , Kentucky , Indiana , Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York , Vermont , New Hampshire, Maine, Ontario, Quebec , New Brunswick, Prince, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland

☆ Eclipse viewing glasses: How to protect your eyes during the annular eclipse
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —On Saturday, an annular solar eclipse will create a scintillating “ring of fire” in the skies across the Americas. A total solar eclipse will cut a path across North America on April 8, 2024. Using eclipse glasses and solar viewersTo view the annular eclipse, wear certified eclipse glasses or use a handheld solar viewer. Put on your eclipse glasses before looking up and remember to turn away from the sun before you remove them again. The small space between will reflect the sun’s crescent during a partial eclipse or a ring during the annular eclipse.

Persons: CNN —, ”, Carrie Black, Alex Lockwood, It’s Organizations: CNN, Americas ., NASA, National Science Foundation, National, Observatory, Science, Planetary Society, American Astronomical Society Locations: North, Central, South America, Alaska, North America

☆ September’s full harvest moon is the last supermoon of the year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The full harvest moon will shine in the early morning hours of September 29, also marking the fourth and final supermoon of 2023. September’s full moon will appear about 5% bigger and 13% brighter than the average full moon, according to NASA. Other monikers for September’s full moon across different indigenous tribes include the corn maker moon from the Abenaki tribe, the moon of the brown leaves from the Lakota people and autumn moon from the Passamaquoddy tribe. Many people associate the harvest moon with being orange in color as it begins to rise, but the same could be said of all full moons. Only part of the moon will pass into shadow as the sun, Earth and moon will not completely align.

Persons: ●, Orionids, Leonids, Geminids, Ursids Organizations: CNN, NASA, Northern, Royal Museums, Planetary Society, Farmers, Meteor Locations: Chuseok, Higan, Royal Museums Greenwich, North, Central, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South Africa

☆ An invisible force surrounding Earth may be creating water on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Earth may have helped give rise to water on the moon while shielding it from solar winds. A cosmic tail of invisible electrons trailing our planet could have generated water on the lunar surface, according to a study published on Thursday. NASA/Goddard/Aaron Kaase/InsiderThe findings raise an interesting proposition: If even a little water can be generated when solar winds are virtually gone, do you need the solar winds to make water on the moon? The findings add to the many theories that are seeking to explain water on the lunar surface. "This provides a natural laboratory for studying the formation processes of lunar surface water," said Li.

Persons: What's, India's Chandrayaan, Goddard, Aaron Kaase, Li Organizations: Service, Planetary Society, NASA, NOAA Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it's already made.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In August, India became the first country to successfully land near the moon's south pole. Since touchdown, the moon lander and rover have already made some important discoveries. Both the mission's Vikram lander and its adorable dog-sized Pragyan rover wasted no time in studying the lunar south pole region with the suite of scientific instruments they brought with them. Temperature changes undergroundVikram has also measured the soil temperature near the lunar south pole both on the surface and underground, for the first time. There's still a lot to be learned about the moon's south pole region.

Persons: Vikram, Pragyan, it's, ILSA, There's Organizations: Service, Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, Planetary Society, Langmuir Locations: India, Wall, Silicon

☆ NASA spent billions on its SLS mega-rocket to take humans to the moon. It finally admitted it is 'unaffordable.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

NASA officials have said their SLS mega-rocket program is "unaffordable." Officials agree the SLS budget "needs to be improved," but it's not clear how, per a government report. The exact costs are unclearThe GAO says NASA has spent $11.8 billion since 2011 on the development of the integrated SLS rocket. NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft shown here being rolled of their assembly building ahead of the Artemis I mission. NASA's SLS is an anomalyPart of the criticism for the SLS program is that it sticks out as a "bit of an anomaly" in NASA's latest approach to project development, Rosseau previously said.

Persons: Artemis, Brendan Rosseau, Joel Kowsky, NASA's, Rosseau, it's, SLS's, pare, they've, Eric Berger, Paul Martin, Berger, Blue Origin's Organizations: NASA, Service, Orion, SLS, Office, GAO, Planetary Society, Elon, SpaceX, Harvard Business School, Origin, SpaceX's, SpaceX NASA, Ars Technica Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ We may be the only humans to ever see the green Comet Nishimura. Here's how, where, and when to spot it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Comet Nishimura appears in the night sky through September 13, before skimming past the sun. Here's how, where, and when to spot Comet Nishimura before it might burn up and disappear forever. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: How NASA spent $10 billion on the James Webb telescopeAfter passing our planet, Comet Nishimura will continue careening toward the sun — and possibly its own destruction. How, when, and where to spot Comet NishimuraA photographer attempts to capture the comet Neowise from Trwyn Du Lighthouse, Anglesey, Wales. Carl Recine/ReutersFor now, Comet Nishimura is only visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

Persons: Comet Nishimura, Nishimura, James Webb, it's, Carl Recine, Dan Bartlett, Bartlett, Leo, Bob King of, King Organizations: Service, NASA, Mercury, Southern Hemisphere, Planetary Society, Reuters, Northern, Cancer, Bob King of Sky Locations: Wall, Silicon, Trwyn Du, Anglesey, Wales, California

☆ How India landed on the moon and flew to Mars at a fraction of the cost of NASA and Russia missions
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

India has become the first nation to land a robotic mission to the crucial south pole of the Moon. AdvertisementAdvertisementSmall spacecraft, small costsIndian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, travels after it was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. Aijaz Rahi/AP PhotoIndia's main strategy for being frugal on the moon seems to be that it kept the spacecraft small. NASA/JSCThis wasn't India's first attempt to land on the moon's south pole. It aimed to make a soft landing on the south pole of the moon, where nobody had succeeded yet.

Persons: NASA's, Elon Musk, Aijaz, That's, Satish, Robert Braun, Andrew Coates, Anatoly Zak, They've, Braun, Russia's Luna Organizations: Service, Hollywood, ISRO, SpaceX, Twitter, Indian Space Research Organization, New York Times, NASA, Space, Chandrayaan, Space Exploration, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, MAVEN, BBC, Planetary Society, JSC Locations: Wall, Silicon, India, Bengaluru, Sriharikota, Soviet Union

☆ Boeing's role in building NASA's new rocket
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

The mobile launcher with NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 to Launch Complex 39B on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “I worked over 50 Space Shuttle launches,” Boeing SLS program manager John Shannon told CNN by phone. Though more than 1,000 companies were involved with designing and building SLS, Boeing’s work involved the largest and most expensive portion of the rocket. The SLS rocket ended up flying its first launch more than six years later than originally intended. All of the “major components” for a third SLS rocket are also completed, Shannon added.

The comet, officially known as C/2022 E3 (ZTF), will make its closest approach to the sun on Thursday and could be bright enough to be seen through telescopes and binoculars. The icy object will then make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 2, NASA officials said. If the comet continues brightening, it may be possible to see it with the naked eye as it makes its closest approach to Earth in early February. After that, the next opportunity to see Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) won't come around for a long, long time. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered last March by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility's wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory, located north of San Diego.

The first full-color image released from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope is the sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever produced, according to NASA. Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERONASA released the first batch of images from the tennis court-sized observatory to much fanfare in July. The exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope. Back to the moonFifty years after the final Apollo moon mission, NASA took key steps toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. Chinese officials have also said they intend to use the space station for space tourism and commercial space initiatives.

☆ The incredible true story of the time an astronaut played golf on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The resulting creation, a Wilson Staff Dyna-Power 6-iron head, was tucked away in Shepard’s space suit for launch, with a few balls hidden in a sock. “Miles and miles and miles,” the jubilant astronaut remarked as the ball sailed out of his view, swallowed by the infinite blackness of space. What does any of that have to do with an astronaut playing golf on the moon? Saunders believed Shepard’s “miles and miles” remark to have been made tongue-in-cheek, an almost instinctive reflex of his hyper-competitive, “fighter-jock” nature. “We always talk about getting to the moon, landing on the moon, returning back to Earth – that’s how we think of the moon,” Odom said.

☆ The Artemis I moon mission is set for liftoff tonight. Watch live as NASA launches its new $50 billion mega-rocket.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA's Space Launch System rocket is set to launch its first mission to the moon tonight. Watch the historic SLS rocket launch live, in the NASA broadcast below. That's why NASA has spent 17 years and an estimated $50 billion developing the SLS rocket and its Orion spaceship, according to The Planetary Society. Livestream: Watch NASA launch its new moon rocketWatch the launch live on NASA's broadcast below, starting when technicians begin filling the rocket with fuel at 3:30 p.m. An illustration of the Space Launch System lifting off from the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

☆ Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

William Shatner became the oldest person to journey to space when he flew on Blue Origin in October 2021. The 11-minute flight reached 66 miles above Earth, where Shatner may have seen deserts, mountains, and water. The Star Trek actor described space as dreadful "ominous blackness," but was wowed by Earth's beauty. ReutersBefore the journey, Shatner expressed excitement about finally seeing space with his own eyes, describing the opportunity as "a miracle." Bettmann/Getty ImagesIn the film, Gagarin said he could see forests, and described Earth as "visible and distinct," but many areas were "covered with cumulus clouds."

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