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NASA JPL Open-Source Rover: Build Your Own Mars Rover for $5,000

NASA JPL released an open-source rover design (June 2026) based on the Mars 2020 Perseverance architecture. The Open Rover v1.0 includes: (1) Rocker-bogie suspe…

#nasa #robotics #opensource #rover

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The Apollo 1 Fire: A Tragedy That Almost Ended the Program

At 6:30 PM on January 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 — Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee — was sealed inside their command module at Launch Complex 34…

#apollo #apollo-1 #grissom #tragedy

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America's Response: Building NASA From Nothing

The United States didn't have a civilian space agency in 1957. The Army had rockets. The Navy had rockets. The Air Force had rockets. What it didn't have was…

#nasa #mercury #alan-shepard #john-glenn

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Can a Robotic Tug Save Swift's 21-Year Science Run?

A lot of space hardware dies in a boring way. Nothing explodes. Nothing fails spectacularly. The orbit just decays until gravity and drag finish the job. T…

#space #astronomy #nasa #swift

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"Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: Why NASA and DARPA Are Reviving 1960s Rocket Science for Mars"

Here is a number worth sitting with: a Mars mission using conventional chemical propulsion takes roughly seven to nine months one-way. A mission using nuclear…

#nuclear propulsion #nasa #darpa #mars

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The Space Race as Cold War Weapon — How Sputnik and Apollo Were More Political Than Scientific

On the night of October 4, 1957, radio operators around the world detected a faint, repetitive beeping transmitted from orbit. Sputnik 1, a 184-pound aluminum…

#space-race #cold-war #sputnik #apollo

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Webb Telescope Discoveries 2025

#webb-telescope #astrophysics #exoplanets #space

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"Artemis 2 Is Weeks From Launch: What the First Crewed Lunar Mission Since 1972 Actually Involves"

# Artemis 2 Is Weeks From Launch: What the First Crewed Lunar Mission Since 1972 Actually Involves From r/space (201 upvotes, 98% upvote rate): NASA confirme…

#nasa #artemis #space #moon

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Why Mars Helicopters Need Supersonic Blade Tips — Engineering Flight in Near-Vacuum

You've seen the videos: a little rotorcraft hovering over a rust-colored plain, kicking up dust that barely moves in the thin air. Ingenuity's 72 flights were…

#mars #helicopter #nasa #aerospace

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