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NASA astronaut Victor Glover shares first video from space
Glover with his commander Michael Hopkins and fellow astronauts Shannon Walker docked with the space station on November 16 after taking off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. "It makes me so happy that you are finally in space witnessing such beauty!" The SpaceX capsule arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) last Tuesday. [Full Article...]
Greenhouse gases at record high despite COVID-19 measures

Planets and Saturn have been closely aligned for 800 years

Big shooting star show set to light up our self-iso lives
Wanna go to the movies? This year's meteor shower is expected to peak between Monday and Wednesday night, and is best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere, where the night is longer at this time of year. Although the shower can be seen from all over the world, according to Earth Sky , "the Eta Aquariids are especially fine from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, and from the more southerly latitud... [Full Article...]
Tech Breakdown: What makes China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission special?

Lunar mission is latest milestone in China's space ambitions
China is planning to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to the moon on Tuesday, which will shovel up lunar rocks soil and bring them back to Earth . If successful, the mission will make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples , following the United States and the Soviet Union decades ago. [Full Article...]
Johnson sets out details of tougher tiers to replace England's lockdown

Three astronauts dock at ISS within three hours of launch
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov took off at just before 2 AM EDT, and docked with the ISS at 4:48 AM EDT - three hours and two minutes after liftoff. [Full Article...]