Tag: space exploration
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National Space Council hears calls for moon trips and stronger space defense
Vice President Mike Pence delivers opening remarks at the National Space Council’s inaugural meeting, conducted at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. The shuttle Discovery looms in the background. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) The Trump administration plans to send astronauts and robots back to the moon in…
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Russia gets on board with NASA to look into Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit
An artist’s conception from Boeing shows its Deep Space Gateway. (Boeing Illustration) The space station band is getting back together again: Russia and NASA today signed a joint statement voicing support for a Deep Space Gateway in lunar orbit that’s designed to serve as a jumping-off point for beyond-Earth exploration. To be fair, that’s what…
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Former astronaut: NASA ‘certainly not dead, but they are lost at the moment’
Former astronaut Ed Lu (right) at the 2015 GeekWire Summit. Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu, who logged more than 206 days in space over his career, said there are a lot of interesting things going on in space exploration right now — they’re just not coming from the organization you would expect. “It [NASA] is…