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January 16, 2025

First look at space shuttle, Mission Control 2025 dollar coins from US Mint

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto dollar coins in celebration of the advancements made by two states. The U.S. Mint has released the designs of the Florida and Texas entries in the American Innovation $1 Coin Program.


January 16, 2025

Godspeed, New Glenn: Blue Origin's first heavy-lift rocket lifts off to orbit

Zero-g and New Glenn is doing fine. Blue Origin's debut of its first orbital-class rocket launched successfully after nearly a decade in development. The New Glenn followed in its namesake's trajectory by reaching orbit after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.


January 15, 2025

Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride

Looking at the ride today, it has little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there have been and still are several nods to NASA and real space exploration. Here are five from behind the scenes and on the ride.


January 15, 2025

A trail of two moon landers: Firefly's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience lift off

Two private spacecraft are on their way to attempting separate landings on the moon. Firefly's Blue Ghost is expected to take 45 days to arrive in lunar orbit, while ispace's Resilience is expected to take four to five months — despite sharing the same rocket.


January 13, 2025

Little house on the (moon) prairie: Artist's 'Moonhouse' set to lift off on lunar lander

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. And not just any small house, but an iconic Swedish red house with white corners. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.


January 6, 2025

The 'original' John Glenn gave his 'go' for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket

John Glenn's last correspondence before his death was to approve the use of his name for Blue Origin's first orbital-class rocket. Though he is no longer here to see it, Glenn hailed the reusable booster for what it could enable for the future of human spaceflight.


January 1, 2025

Ingenuity Mars 'copter flies again as first drone on Rose Parade float

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, the first aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet, is now the first drone to fly on a Rose Parade float. The floral-but-flight-worthy display was just one of the highlights aboard the JPL-inspired "Rover Rendezvous" float.


December 31, 2024

Ireland's lost Apollo 11 moon rock traced from basement to fire in documents

New details about the small pieces of the moon gifted by the United States to Ireland in 1970 have now been unearthed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves, which were lost a fire and a landfill in 1977.


December 23, 2024

Apollo 11 flown-to-the-moon artifact 'lands' in lunar meteorite-lined wedding ring

For better or for worse, a small part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft will now be Jon Mesick's to have and to hold for all the days of his life. The strip of flown polyimide tape is now the centerpiece of Mesick's wedding band made by Honest Hands Ring Co.



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January 15, 2025
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World Monuments Fund Puts Moon on List of At-Risk Sites


For years, the World Monuments Fund has sought to draw attention and resources to endangered cultural heritage sites including Machu Picchu in Peru, temples in Cambodia and the old city of Taiz in Yemen. But this year's list of at-risk sites goes much further afield: to the moon.

January 2, 2025
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A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya


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January 2, 2025
Ars Technica

Russia just launched the 2,000th Semyorka rocket — it's both a triumph and tragedy


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December 29, 2024
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Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100, but his voice continues 'into the cosmos'


The longest-lived president in United States' history, Jimmy Carter's voice will continue to extend "into the cosmos" beyond his death at 100.

December 29, 2024
Ars Technica

After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites


The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days. The patch for the first female human spaceflight showcased a dove flying above the letters designating the Soviet Union, CCCP.

December 11, 2024
Illinois Senate Democrats

Morrison celebrates oldest living former NASA astronaut


State Senator Julie Morrison commemorated Dec. 21, 2024 as James A. Lovell Day to celebrate the Lake Forest man whose words of, "Houston, we've had a problem," are still said daily some 54 years later.

December 6, 2024
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What to wear on your trip into space? This watch CEO has a suggestion


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December 5, 2024
The New York Times

NASA Artemis Moon Missions Delayed Until 2026 and 2027


NASA on Thursday postponed a mission to send four astronauts around the moon and back to Earth until April 2026. The move is the latest setback for Artemis, the government space agency's return-to-the-moon program, which has already faced years of delays.