The Future (and Past) of Space

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  Rocket Launches, Trips to the Moon and More Space and Astronomy Events in 2019

  The New York Times - Michael Roston

  Just as we’ve caught our breaths from 2018’s exciting and very busy year in space and astronomy, 2019 is already off to a rapid start. Before we finish the first week of this year, we’ll see a Chinese probe landing on the moon, an eclipse and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft complete a flyby of the …

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  NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Is Triumphant in Encounter With the Most Distant Object Ever Visited

  The New York Times - Kenneth Chang

  LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes into the new year, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to a small, icy world nicknamed Ultima Thule. Almost 10 hours later, …

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  A Journey Into the Solar System’s Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds to Explore

  The New York Times - Kenneth Chang

  In 2015, a NASA spacecraft snapped spectacular photographs of Pluto, forever changing humanity’s view of that world. On Tuesday that same probe, New Horizons, will provide a closeup of the farthest object ever visited. New Horizons will speed past an object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 31,500 miles per …

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  Sync your calendar with the solar system

  The New York Times - Michael Roston

  January 1 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Ultima Thule It visited Pluto in 2015, and kept going. Now NASA’s New Horizons probe will pass near a mysterious object in the Kuiper belt, making it the most distant world ever visited by a spacecraft. Scientists hope to learn more about how the …

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  How Many Space Stations Does This Planet Need?

  The New York Times - Kenneth Chang

  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — At one end of Bigelow Aerospace’s factory is a mock-up of a gargantuan home for future astronauts. With a unique design — it could be packed into a rocket, then unfurled in space — it would comfortably house a dozen people as a voluminous space station or serve as a building …

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  How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out

  The New York Times - David W. Brown

  LOS ANGELES — The data was like nothing Margaret Kivelson and her team of physicists ever expected. It was December 1996, and the spacecraft Galileo had just flown by Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. The readings beamed back to Earth suggested a magnetic field emanating from the moon. Europa should …

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  Augmented Reality: Explore InSight, NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars

  The New York Times - Graham Roberts

  Augmented reality is a new approach to digital storytelling that we are exploring. Read about how to use it on your phone or tablet here. Augmented reality is a new approach to digital storytelling that we are exploring. Read about how to use it on your phone or tablet here. Missions to Mars In July …