The “Blue Marble” was one of the most iconic images of the Apollo era. Taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on their return trip from the moon, the first fully illuminated image of Earth taken by a person captured what the world looked like on December 7, 1972, just over 50 years ago. year. Now a …
Orion completed its flyby, engaging the spacecraft in a December 11 immersion in the Pacific Ocean. Image: NASA On his 19th dayIn space, NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft made its final pass on the moon 80.6 miles from the lunar surface en route to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, expected in days. …
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The commercial sector advances American leadership in outer space, particularly with respect to Earth observation technologies. That’s according to several witnesses who testified at Thursday’s hearing of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. While federal entities have long used Earth observation tools to monitor changes on the planet’s surface through the Landsat …
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