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NASA's Artemis II crew successfully takes off in first lunar mission in over 50 years
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told the Artemis crew that “the hopes and dreams of a new generation," are with them as they aim to reach a greater distance from Earth than anyone has before.
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NASA investigates potential battery issue ahead of lunar launch
Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was "out of temperature range."
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Watch Live: NASA launches astronauts in Artemis II lunar mission
The spacecraft was expected to launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 6:24 p.m. Eastern, but there has been a slight delay, with the countdown expected to resume shortly.
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US, Japan scientists win Nobel medicine prize for immune system research discoveries
The winners are Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell from the U.S., and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan
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New research suggests Saturn moon is habitable
Researchers looked back at old data and found fascinating results
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Sports medicine doctors support female athletes, state bans on males in girls' sports at SCOTUS
Physiology of sex regardless of hormone interventions makes it practically impossible for females to match males, and nature of athletic injuries particularly threatens females, physicians say. Human rights advocates support females.
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Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97
Lovell was part of a total of four space missions: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
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SpaceX rocket experiences 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' during test flight
The latest disassembly marked the third time that a SpaceX rocket exploded during test flights. The first incident occurred in January, and the second occurred in March, which saw the rocket disassemble just minutes after take-off.
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Harrowing confrontation between contractors led to Fort Detrick bio-lab shutdown, NIH boss reveals
The incident sparked safety concerns that led the new NIH Director to order the lab temporarily closed and open a new probe over its safety practices.
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Elon Musk claims Trump's proposed cuts to NASA's budget are 'troubling'
The bulk of the cuts are from the agency's Science Mission Directorate, which oversees all planetary science, Earth science, heliophysics, and astrophysics research.
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NASA astronauts splash down in Gulf of America off Florida coast after assist from Musk’s SpaceX
The two astronauts were stranded in the International Space Station after their Boeing spacecraft experienced safety issues.
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Experts warn two US volcanoes could erupt soon after increase in seismic activity
Monitoring stations around Mount Adams noted nine earthquakes ranging from magnitude 0.9 to 2.0 near the volcano between September and October of 2024.
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NASA delays rescue mission for stranded ISS astronauts, less than an hour before launch
The space agency did not explain why it canceled the flight, and did not immediately schedule a new date.