Home References Spaceflight Artemis 2 mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, who will be the first non-American to leave low Earth orbit. (Image credit: NASA) Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian space astronaut scheduled to fly around the moon. Hansen the mission specialist aboard Artemis 2, is expected to start his 10-day mission in November 2024. Flying with...
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Underwater spacewalks recreate the ‘moon’ in a giant NASA pool (photos)
Home News Spaceflight Future moonwalkers could benefit from underwater training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a facility already used by NASA for International Space Station missions. An early test here shows work with a prototype spacesuit and a small vehicle upon simulated moon regolith. (Image credit: NASA) Before walking on the moon, future astronauts may...
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The Artemis Generation: To the moon — this time to stay! (op-ed)
Home News Spaceflight NASA’s CAPSTONE probe arrived in lunar orbit on Nov. 13, 2022. This is an artist’s illustration of the cubesat. (Image credit: NASA/ Daniel Rutter) Bradley Cheetham is co-founder and CEO of Colorado-based company Advanced Space. He contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. On June 28, 2022, CAPSTONE launched into...
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8 Places Windows XP Is Hiding in Windows 11
Microsoft Windows has changed a lot in the past 20 years, but there are many areas where it hasn’t. There are still a few visible features in Windows 11 that date back to Windows XP from 2001, or even earlier. In stark contrast to macOS, which breaks compatibility with legacy software on a semi-regular basis,...
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Windows 11 Will Know When You’re Near Your Computer
News @jdannychadwick Apr 16, 2023, 1:13 pm EDT | 1 min read Hannah Stryker / Review Geek Windows 11 is getting a new privacy feature, “Presence Sensing,” according to a report by Bleeping Computer. The new technology will be able to notice if someone is using the computer and automatically lock the device when the...
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How to Fix an Urban VPN Connection Error
Jason Fitzpatrick / How-To Geek You can fix any connection error with Urban VPN by switching servers to one that hopefully doesn’t have load problems. The best solution, though, is to use a different, better VPN service. Urban VPN is a free VPN that offers a lot of locations you can connect to, as well...
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You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.
Mix general relativity with machine learning, and an astronomical donut starts to look more like a Cheerio. By Purbita Saha | Published Apr 14, 2023 1:00 PM EDT AI, enhance. Medeiros et al., 2013 Astronomy sheds light on the far-off, intangible phenomena that shape our universe and everything outside it. Artificial intelligence sifts through tiny,...
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Hours before NASA’s Artemis 2 moon crew reveal, I saw a neat slice of space history
Home News Spaceflight A model moon hovers over an Artemis exhibit at Space Center Houston on the eve of the Artemis 2 crew announcement of April 3, 2023. (Image credit: Elizabeth Howell) HOUSTON — On a humming museum floor, I came face-to-face with a NASA astronaut in the shadow of the moon. I was next...
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Kenya deploys first earth observation satellite into space
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Kenya’s first earth observation satellite was launched into space Saturday after two aborted attempts earlier in the week. The African country’s Taifa-1 was among the satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket’s launch had to be scrubbed twice previously due...