In a giant step for diversity, the Biden-Harris Administration seeks to land the first woman and the next man on the lunar South Pole by 2024.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates named the next two astronauts in its space program Saturday, including the country’s first female astronaut.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai who also serves as the autocratically ruled country’s prime minister and vice-president, named the two astronauts on Twitter.He identified Noura al-Matroushi as the UAE’s first female astronaut. The announceme

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United Arab Emirates names 2 new astronauts, including woman

NASA engineers will attempt the first flight on Mars in just a few days, and it could change space exploration forever.

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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity: What you need to know before its first flight

Insight Editions serves up a delicious new 'Star Wars: Galactic Baking' cookbook to help celebrate May the Fourth.

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Exclusive: Salute 'Star Wars Day' with this mouth-watering 'Star Wars: Galactic Baking' cookbook

Yesterday we talked about Coma Berenices, which you can see on April evenings. Its stars went from being part of Leo the Lion to being one of the 88 official constellations. Leo’s stars are relatively bright, but the best part of Coma Berenices requires a dark sky to be seen. It’s the beautiful Coma star cluster aka Melotte 111 or Collinder 256. This star cluster is what gives Coma Berenices its feathery (or hairlike) look.

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Star-hop to the Coma star cluster

tempA black hole and its shadow have been captured in an image for the first time, a historic feat by an international network of radio telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

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Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinate Observation

Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 9, 2021
A three-man crew docked at the international Space Station Friday after a flight honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space. 
A Soyuz capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei docked at 1105 GMT, footage broadcasted by NASA TV showed.

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Three-man crew docks at ISS after flight honouring Gagarin

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 9, 2021
The 40th anniversary Monday of the first orbital flight of a space shuttle - Columbia - evokes the accomplishments of the program, but also a grim reminder of tragedies during its existence. 
The first shuttle orbital flight in April 1981 revolutionized space exploration because it proved a reusable, piloted space plane could succeed. 
But that legacy also offered perilous lesson

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