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The symbolic samples are scheduled to fly beyond the moon, along with the ashes of other dearly departed Star Trek pioneers such as James Doohan (“Scotty”) Majel Barrett Roddenberry (“Nurse Chapel”) the TV series’ creator, Gene Roddenberry and visual-effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Nichelle Nichols, who blazed a trail for Black actors as Lieutenant Uhura on the original “Star Trek,” never got to go to space while she was alive - but her ashes and her DNA are due to reach the final frontier as early as this year.
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Continue reading “Here is Where Astronauts Might Land on the Moon” Each region contains multiple potential sites where the Starship Human Landing System (HLS) will land. In preparation for this, NASA has identified 13 candidate regions in the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, which they recently shared with the public. It will also be the first time in over 50 years (since Apollo 17 landed in 1972) that astronauts will venture beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This flight, and the crewed Artemis II that will follow, are essentially the dress rehearsal for the long-awaited return to the Moon.ĭesignated Artemis III, this mission is scheduled to take place in 2025 and will see the “first woman and first person of color” set foot on the lunar surface. The mission will last between 39 and 42 days and consist of the uncrewed Orion flying beyond the Moon, farther than any spaceship has ever traveled, and then looping back around the Moon to return home. In just four days, the inaugural mission of the Artemis Program will lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida! Dubbed Artemis I, this mission will see the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft achieve flight together for the first time. Continue reading “Astronomers Find a Waterworld Planet With Deep Oceans in the Habitable Zone” “Waterworld”) could reveal things about the nature of habitability when it is the subject of follow-up observations using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Thanks to an international team of researchers led by the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at the Université de Montréal, an exoplanet orbiting within its system’s HZ was recently discovered that could be completely covered in deep oceans. With the explosion in confirmed exoplanets, scientists have been eager to find examples of this type of planet, so they study them more closely. However, since the 1970s, scientists have speculated that there may be a class of rocky planets in our Universe that are completely covered in water. The reason is simple: water is the only known solvent capable of supporting life and is required by all life on Earth. In the search for extrasolar planets, astronomers and astrobiologists generally pursue a policy of “follow the water.” This comes down to searching for planets that orbit with a star’s circumsolar habitable zone (HZ), where conditions are warm enough that liquid water can flow on its surface.