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Unexpected, if not unidentified, flying objects surprised some North Queenslanders who were observing the skies this week, with images of a long, thin object floating in the night sky, trending on social media. Key points: There have been a number of UFO sightings in North Queensland in recent days. Space …

Blue Origin lost its months-long battle to be reconsidered for a contract with NASA to transport astronauts from the moon’s orbit to its surface. Blue Origin’s lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Claims Tribunal challenged NASA’s selection of rival SpaceX – and only SpaceX – for the contract. U.S. Judge Richard …

BIAK, Indonesia – For 15 generations, members of the Abrauw clan have lived much like their ancestors. They cultivate with wooden plows in plots of the rainforest, gather medicinal plants and set traps to catch snakes and wild boars. The land they occupy on the island of Biak is everything …

A SpaceX SN15 prototype spacecraft is seen as it sits on a transporter after Wednesday’s successful launch and first landing since the company’s spacecraft facility, in Boca Chica, Texas, USA, on May 6, 2021. REUTERS / Gene Blevins WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Reuters) – The United States Federal Aviation Administration announced …

Hello Hello. It is Thursday November 11 and here’s your brief update to keep you up to date tonight. One thing to know now – the rains are here The Todd River which crosses the Gap at Alice Springs.(ABC News: Steven Schubert) Heavy rains, storms and flooding are expected in …

SpaceX is finally set to launch its Crew-3 mission this week, after being repeatedly delayed. This will be Nasa’s third operational commercial crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will be powered by a Falcon 9 rocket, and the fourth crewed flight in SpaceX’s commercial union with NASA. It …

CAP CANACERAL, Florida – It’s going to be a busy week on the Florida Space Coast. SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts are expected to return to Earth in their Crew Dragon spacecraft on Monday afternoon. READ: Court ruling allows SpaceX to develop lunar lander for NASA The four astronauts were originally scheduled …

CAP CANAVERAL, Fla .– Thanks to Mother Nature, NASA is wondering when to bring the four astronauts from its Crew-2 mission with SpaceX home, even as their replacements wait on Earth for their own launch. Crew-2 astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoside of Japan and Thomas …

NASA says the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft has arrived at SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) facility for launch later this month. After being carefully packaged for shipment from the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University (JHUAPL) in Maryland on September 29, the small 690 kg (~ …

At the heart of the race to explore distant worlds is the Giant Magellanic Telescope (GMT), a $ 1.8 billion complex under construction at the Las Campanas Observatory. NASA on Monday announced a rare health-related delay in the launch of its SpaceX four-astronaut rocket to the International Space Station. This …