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NASA Perseverance rover's Mars landing site may have been too harsh for ancient life

Water and brine left behind some key ingredients for life, but the environment they created may not have been very hospitable.

Inverse

New space observatory helps solve mystery involving enormous black holes

Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way's center, some are fierce - guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space.

Reuters

Space diversity: Europe's space agency gets 1st parastronaut

The European Space Agency has made history by selecting an amputee who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident to be among its newest batch of astronauts

The Independent UK

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Europe Names World’s First Disabled Astronaut

The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The 22-nation agency said it had appointed British Paralympic sprinter John McFall to take part in a feasibility study during astronaut training to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New British astronaut announced by European Space Agency

Rosemary Coogan will begin her journey of training with ESA before being assigned a mission

Manchester Evening News

Artemis: why it may be the last mission for Nasa astronauts

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…

The Conversation

Dunblane recruiter admits working for NASA 'out of this world' as new mission begins

The former Dunblane High student worked for two years at Mission Control in Texas, overseeing $6billion worth of programmes.

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Paralympic athlete from UK in latest intake of ESA astronauts

John McFall, 41, becomes first astronaut with physical disability to be recruited by European space agency

The Guardian - UK

British paralympian on course to be Europe’s first disabled astronaut

Bronze medallist sprinter picked to join European Space Agency’s training corps

The Independent UK

Europe names world's first disabled astronaut

The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space.

Reuters

Cornwall's Spaceport leaves 'already struggling' locals divided over benefits

The first space mission from the site in Newquay, Cornwall is expected to be conducted by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company in the coming weeks

Daily Mirror

Astronomers find a pristine meteorite from the dawn of the Solar System

Most meteorites are missing flight data. Not so with the Winchcombe meteorite, whose fireball awed hundreds of people in 2021 and revealed its ancient past.

Inverse

Europe flags space ambitions with spending hike and new astronauts

European nations agreed on Wednesday to boost spending on space by 17% to stay on the heels of United States and China in two days of intense bargaining overshadowed by rising energy prices.

Reuters

France's Sophie Adenot among five new astronauts named by European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled its new class of career astronauts on Wednesday, selecting French helicopter pilot Sophie Adenot and four other candidates from a list of more than 22,500 applicants. ESA also selected British Paralympic sprinter John McFall, who will be the first disabled person to train as…

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Horoscopes today - Russell Grant's star sign forecast for Wednesday, November 23

While one sign has a serious talk with friends after a disagreement, another makes a big mistake after accepting advice from the wrong person. These are the Wednesday horoscopes.

Reuters

Europe ministers tackle sharp increase in space funding

European ministers haggled on Tuesday over a proposed 25% boost in space funding over the next three years designed to maintain Europe's lead in Earth observation, expand navigation services and remain a partner in exploration with the United States.

Axios

The coming Moon economy

NASA's most recent Moon mission is stoking the flames of a burgeoning lunar economy.

The Conversation

How satellites, radar and drones are tracking meteorites and aiding Earth's asteroid defence

On July 31 2013 a constellation of US defence satellites saw a streak of light over South Australia as a rock from outer space burned through Earth’s atmosphere on its way to crash into the ground below.

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Major milestone for NASA's Artemis program as Orion capsule flies by the moon

NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts.

Daily Mirror

Nasa’s Orion capsule reaches the moon on its way to making record-breaking lunar orbit

The capsule passed the moon at only 81 miles away and is scheduled to surpass Nasa’s distance record for a spacecraft designed for astronauts

Fortune

Composite materials have made Artemis possible. Here’s how innovation is transforming America’s aviation industry

Composite materials are driving advances in aviation and unmanned flight that were unimaginable only a few years ago, writes Carmelo Lo Faro.

Inverse

NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft is on track to travel farther than any Apollo mission

The Orion capsule from the NASA Artemis I mission performed the first of two critical maneuvers to reach a highly-stable orbit around the Moon.

Axios

NASA's Orion makes close flyby of the Moon

It passed just 81 miles above the Moon's surface.

Al Jazeera

NASA’s Orion capsule arrives at moon, just before lunar orbit

Orion’s arrival marks the first time the US space agency has been to the moon since the 1972 Apollo programme.

Evening Standard

Artemis: Nasa’s Orion capsule passes the Moon for the first time

The spacecraft passed 81 miles above the Moon’s surface on Monday, marking a major milestone in the $4.1 billion test flight

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