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Starliner: the new commercial spacecraft for the International Space Station

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station during the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module. Credits: NASA

Boeing' Starliner is a partially reusable spacecraft developed inside NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The final test is scheduled to launch in Apr. 2023.

Benedetta Facini
07/02/2023

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Virgin Universe: from the ground to the atmosphere’s edge.

Virgin Galactic’s double fuselage mothership, White Knight Two, configured in a “captive carry” mode passes over the audience as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and founder/ owner of Virgin Galactic Sir Richard Branson address a crowd of about six hundred people during the runway dedication ceremony last Thursday at Spaceport America, in Upham, southeast of Truth or Consequences, N.M. Credits USAG Fort Bliss via Flickr

Let's discover the story of one of the craziest and most enterprising businessmen in history able to build the empire called Virgin Group.

Federico Coppola
02/02/2023

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Polaris Dawn: a revolutionary private space mission

Polaris Dawn Crew. From left to right: Anna Menon, Sarah Gillis, Scott Poteet and Jared Isaacman. Credits: Polaris Dawn via Twitter

Polaris Dawn is the first mission in the Polaris Program aimed to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities by testing new technologies.

Benedetta Facini
31/01/2023

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Discovering Dragon: the capsule that made SpaceX big

The uncrewed SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on approach to the station's Harmony module. Credits: NASA

SpaceX’s primary goal has always been focused on Mars and making life multi-planetary. The Dragon capsule has been the first step toward this huge goal

Filippo Zamprogna
26/01/2023

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Euclid: investigating the secrets of dark matter and dark energy

ESA's Euclid payload and service modules are joined at the Thales Alenia Space plant in Turin. The solar array/sunshield is visible on the right. Image credit: ESA

Dark matter and dark energy are great mysteries. ESA's Euclid mission is set to use advanced technology to collect valuable data on their nature

Riccardo Dipietro
19/01/2023

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A simple and complete Guide on NASA’s Mighty Apollo Capsule

The Apollo 10 Command and Service Modules (CSM) are photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) after CSM/LM separation in lunar orbit. Credits: NASA

The Apollo Capsule was the Spacecraft designed and developed by NASA which aimed to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. Let's dig into it!

Edoardo Giammarino
08/01/2023

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ESA had a phenomenal 2022! Let’s see what happened…

Dozens of previously hidden jets and outflows from young stars are revealed in this new image of the Cosmic Cliffs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, has long intrigued astronomers as a hotbed for star formation. Many details of star formation in NGC 3324 remain hidden at visible-light wavelengths. Webb is perfectly primed to tease out these long-sought-after details since it can detect jets and outflows seen only in the infrared at high resolution.

2022 has been a phenomenal year for ESA! We’ve seen many records being broken together with a lot of “first times” and today we're gonna talk about all of them.

Filippo Zamprogna
05/01/2023

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The “Full Earth” Photo: A Retrospective Look at Apollo 8’s Groundbreaking Mission

"The Full Earth" Photo acquired on December 22, 1968, by the Apollo 8 crew with a 77 mm camera. Credits: NASA

In 1968, during the Apollo 8 Mission, an iconic photograph of Earth was taken that would go on to become one of the most memorable images of the 20th century.