Tag: Canadian Space Agency
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NASA set to announce crew of Artemis 2 moon mission
A cadre of NASA astronauts walks toward the Space Launch System moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch of the Artemis 1 test flight last year. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA will unveil the four crew members Monday who will fly around the moon on the first piloted flight of the agency’s Orion…
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Webb telescope sees the prelude to a supernova
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare…
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Canadian astronaut to join NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission around the moon
The moon as seen from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A Canadian space flier will join three NASA crew members on the first piloted flight of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft around the moon, becoming the first non-U.S. astronaut on a lunar voyage, officials announced last week. There will be a second…
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Scientists release new view from OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid smash and grab
This view from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s navigation camera shows asteroid Bennu as the probe moved in for a sample collection maneuver Oct. 20. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Scientists say the touch and go landing by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on an asteroid last month revealed fresh insights into the structure of loose rocks that may…
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International Space Station offers ‘blueprint’ for exploration, first crew says
Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, commander Bill Shepherd, and flight engineer Sergei Krikalev on-board the International Space Station in December 2000. Credit: NASA Bill Shepherd, a former Navy SEAL-turned astronaut who arrived at the International Space Station 20 years ago Monday to begin the continuous occupancy of the orbiting research outpost, says the experience gained by NASA…
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Asteroid samples sealed in OSIRIS-REx return capsule
A camera aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft showed the mission’s sample return capsule closed its heat shield late Wednesday after a robotic arm placed asteroid samples inside for the trip back to Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin A collection chamber that could contain more than 2 pounds of samples gathered from an asteroid in deep…
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OSIRIS-REx begins stowing asteroid sample into return capsule
These images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft were taken Tuesday, Oct. 27, showing the mission’s robotic arm placing the sampling head inside the capsule that will return the asteroid specimens to Earth in 2023. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Working under close supervision from ground controllers more than 200 million miles away, the robotic arm on…
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OSIRIS-REx overflows with asteroid samples after bagging bounty from Bennu
Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. They show also that some of these particles are slowly escaping the sampler head. Credit: NASA The…
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Scientists thrilled with first look at asteroid sampler in action
The first images beamed back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft after it briefly landed an asteroid buoyed expectations Wednesday that the probe collected enough samples to meet the mission’s minimum requirement for return to Earth. But it will take another week for ground teams to get a reasonably precise estimate of how much…
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Live coverage: OSIRIS-REx makes touch and go landing on asteroid
Live coverage of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Sample Collection Recap Briefing”] [tabby title=”NASA’s Live Coverage of the Touch And Go Landing”] [tabby title=”Clean Feed of…