
Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflight
Read full article: Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflightAnimal spaceflights paved the way for the first human astronauts and today creatures big and small continue to space travel advancing our knowledge of how the zero-gravity environment impacts all beings and aiding research down on Earth.

Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflight
Read full article: Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflightAnimal spaceflights paved the way for the first human astronauts, and today, creatures big and small continue to space travel, advancing our knowledge of how the zero-gravity environment impacts all beings and aiding research down on Earth.

NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable, but with commercial space, Artemis can be
Read full article: NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable, but with commercial space, Artemis can beThis time, the U.S. plans to stay on the moon with a sustainable presence with the help of international and commercial partners.

Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moon
Read full article: Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moonSeveral private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor, with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years.

Space Curious: Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moon
Read full article: Space Curious: Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moonSeveral private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years. Both Astrobotic and Intuitive Machine are months away from launching the first American missions to land on the moon since 1972. The companies were both selected under NASA’s commercial lunar payload services, or CLIPS, program.

Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard of
Read full article: Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard ofJacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lindon B. Johnson he refused to let her call him Mr. President.

Judge won't block Trump administration from giving SpaceX acres of wildlife refuge in land swap
Read full article: Judge won't block Trump administration from giving SpaceX acres of wildlife refuge in land swapA federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas.

Sen. Moody pushes to bring US Space Academy to Florida’s Space Coast
Read full article: Sen. Moody pushes to bring US Space Academy to Florida’s Space CoastFlorida Sen. Ashley Moody is pushing to bring the newly established United States Space Academy to the state's Space Coast, with plans to file legislation when the Senate returns to session.

‘America’s launchpad:’ Florida lawmakers ask Trump for Space Academy
Read full article: ‘America’s launchpad:’ Florida lawmakers ask Trump for Space AcademySen. Ashley Moody and Rep. Mike Haridopolos — both Republican U.S. lawmakers from Florida — led the delegation in a letter to the president and NASA administrator offering Florida as the academy’s future home.

Successful launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center Sunday morning
Read full article: Successful launch of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center Sunday morningA Falcon Heavy rocket is set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center Sunday morning, carrying the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — NASA’s next great observatory and the successor to Hubble and James Webb.
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Introducing Space Curious, a new podcast by WKMG News 6
Read full article: Introducing Space Curious, a new podcast by WKMG News 6Hosted by WKMG space reporter Emilee Speck and edited by Graham Media Director of Podcasts, Zak Rosen, each episode will answer space-related questions submitted from our audience.

There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to Venus
Read full article: There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to VenusMars has been the bell of the planetary ball in the last few decades, but that’s not to say other planets in the solar system, like Venus, haven’t had a fair share of attention over the years.

How scientists know we’re not going to get squashed by an asteroid
Read full article: How scientists know we’re not going to get squashed by an asteroidThis past year or so has been awful for a lot of reasons: a global pandemic, racial injustice, wildfires, a crazy active hurricane season and the list goes on -- but an asteroid crashing into Earth will not be the cherry on top of humanity’s punishment.

All the best ways to watch a space launch
Read full article: All the best ways to watch a space launchHave you ever watched a rocket launch? Some of us are in a position to do something like that fairly easily, based on where we live. For other people, it might be something we do on TV or online. Either way, it’s pretty incredible, space reporter Emilee Speck said.

Astronomers are working to make sure large satellite constellations don’t forever change the night sky
Read full article: Astronomers are working to make sure large satellite constellations don’t forever change the night skyBy the end of last summer, SpaceX had successfully launched nearly 700 satellites, known as the Starlink constellation, as part of CEO Elon Musk’s plan to create a space-based internet using a network of, eventually, up to 42,000 satellites.

Who takes out the space trash? Space debris is growing, here’s what’s being done about it
Read full article: Who takes out the space trash? Space debris is growing, here’s what’s being done about itFor more than six decades, humans have been launching spacecraft into low-Earth orbit and out into the universe, including satellites that provide GPS and weather forecasting down on Earth, but they have limited lifespans.












