Amazon’s thin but pleasant new documentary Good Night Oppy (which gets a limited theatrical release and a streaming release on Amazon Prime on Nov. 23) is about Spirit and Opportunity — the Mars Exploration Rovers that were launched into space in 2003 — and their makers. Opportunity is the star. …
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NASA’s straight-out-of-a-sci-fi-flick mission to alter the trajectory of an asteroid by smashing a rocket into it really did work. On Tuesday, Oct. 11, NASA shared some data from its recent Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), showing that the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos was successfully altered after a spacecraft purposely …
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Over two years after it was first reported that Tom Cruise might shoot a film aboard the International Space Station, it appears that the actor is inching closer to becoming “the first civilian to do a spacewalk.” Back in May 2020, NASA confirmed that they were in talks with Cruise …
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NASA‘s only surviving original recording of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon will go to auction next month, a sale that coincides with 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11‘s lunar landing on July 20th, 1969. Sotheby’s said of the historic videotapes, “Viewed only three times since June 1976, the …
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