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Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally goes to space 60 years later

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Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezosโ€™ rocket company.

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Yoon opens state visit with spotlight on space, mega deals

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Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the state visit of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol with a tour of a NASA facility as the Biden administration looks to deepen ties with a close ally that it sees as only growing in importance in an increasingly complicated Indo-Pacific.

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin marries longtime love on 93rd birthday

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Astronaut Edwin โ€œBuzzโ€ Aldrin, who was one of the first people to walk on the moon, has married his โ€œlongtime loveโ€ in a small ceremony in Los Angeles.

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NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket

Read full article: NASA capsule on way to moon after launch by giant new rocket

A space capsule is hurtling toward the moon for the first time in 50 years.

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LIVE STREAM: NASAโ€™s Artemis I rocket launches to the moon

Read full article: LIVE STREAM: NASAโ€™s Artemis I rocket launches to the moon

Watch the rocket launch live at 1:04 a.m. on Wednesday morning. NASA coverage starts around 10 p.m. on Tuesday night.

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EXPLAINER: NASA's new mega moon rocket, Orion crew capsule

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NASA is making another attempt to launch its new moon rocket on its first test flight.

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EXPLAINER: NASA tests new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo

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NASA's new moon rocket makes its debut next week in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top.

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Buzz Aldrin flight-to-moon jacket sells at auction for $2.8M

Read full article: Buzz Aldrin flight-to-moon jacket sells at auction for $2.8M

Buzz Aldrinโ€™s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moonโ€™s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.

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NASA aiming for late August test flight of giant moon rocket

Read full article: NASA aiming for late August test flight of giant moon rocket

NASA is shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket.

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Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon

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Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASAโ€™s Apollo astronauts.

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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021

Read full article: Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

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EXPLAINER: How Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos will soar into space

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When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.

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Podcast revisits how the biggest stories unfolded on TV news

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A new podcast series revisits how broadcast journalists covered some of the biggest stories, and tells some fascinating behind-the-scenes details.

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Billionaire Blastoff: Rich riding own rockets into space

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Two billionaires are putting everything on the line to ride their own rockets into space.

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Winning auction bid to fly in space with Jeff Bezos: $28M

Read full article: Winning auction bid to fly in space with Jeff Bezos: $28M

The price to rocket into space next month with Jeff Bezos and his brother is a cool $28 million.

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60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up

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Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps.

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Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

Read full article: Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has died at age 90.

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Two space fans get seats on billionaire's private flight

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Isaacman also revealed some details about his Inspiration4 mission, as the four gathered Tuesday at NASAโ€™s Kennedy Space Center. Their SpaceX Dragon capsule โ€” currently parked at the International Space Station for NASA โ€” will launch no earlier than mid-September, aiming for an altitude of 335 miles (540 kilometers). Thatโ€™s 75 miles (120 kilometers) higher than the International Space Station and on a level with the Hubble Space Telescope. AdThe capsule will be outfitted with a domed window in place of the usual space station docking mechanism for their trip. The St. Jude physician assistant was treated there as a child for bone cancer.

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Mars landing team 'awestruck' by photo of descending rover

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This Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover lowered towards the surface of Mars during its powered descent. (NASA via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. โ€“ The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered onto the dusty red surface. NASA equipped the spacecraft with a record 25 cameras and two microphones, many of which were turned on during Thursdayโ€™s descent. It's the ninth time that NASA has successfully landed on Mars __ and the fifth rover. As it did with 2012's Curiosity rover โ€” still roaming 2,300 miles (3,750 kilometers) away โ€” NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed Perseverance descending beneath its massive parachute.

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$1 billion school bond passes; Blood Battle at the Big House; U-M researchers hack Alexa with lasers

Read full article: $1 billion school bond passes; Blood Battle at the Big House; U-M researchers hack Alexa with lasers

The big story this week was the passing of the $1 billion Ann Arbor Public Schools bond to repair existing school infrastructure, build two new schools and more. (A4) The U-M Men's Glee Club will perform its annual Fall Concert tomorrow at Hill Auditorium. (A4)Feature interview of the week:"This concept definitely works because we are in Ann Arbor ... Ann Arbor has so many people that come in from out of town. Know someone who loves Ann Arbor? All About Ann Arbor is powered by ClickOnDetroit/WDIV.

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Buzz Aldrin tweets shout-out to University of Michigan Marching Band

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ANN ARBOR Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin just made the University of Michigan Marching Bands year. He retweeted Monday their performance at Michigan Stadium during the Oct. 27 Michigan vs. Notre Dame game in which they formed a NASA formation at half time. Michigan Band tweeted, So glad we got the opportunity to collaborate with @NASA, @JimBridenstine, and @UMengineering!Aldrin replied with a fun fact that all of Apollo 15s crew were Michigan alumni. Like what youre reading? Sign up for our email newsletter here!

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Take a selfie with (wax) Apollo 11 astronauts at DC's Madame Tussauds

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The "Meet the Legends" exhibit at Madame Tussauds in D.C. features relaunched sculptures of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong as well as a lunar module where guests can pose to take photos with the astronauts. Now, the astronauts involved in the mission are getting a permanent photo-op thanks to Madame Tussauds newest additions to its attraction in the US capital. In conversation with Madame Tussauds' General Manager Therese Alvich, Stern explained just how significant the moon landing was for science and technology. "We are about to enter a new age of exploration with the Artemis Project, which will send astronauts to the moon in the 2020s. That will be in preparation for sending astronauts to the surface of Mars in the 2030s and beyond.

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This Apollo 11 experiment is still happening on the moon

Read full article: This Apollo 11 experiment is still happening on the moon

Later, the Apollo 14 and 15 missions would also add similar arrays to the surface. This allows researchers to determine the moon's orbit, rotation and its current orientation, which will be needed to land on the moon. Previously it was believed that the moon had a solid core, but data from the arrays has revealed that the core is fluid. Until 1964, there weren't any closeup or detailed photos of the lunar surface. In 1964, Ranger 7 successfully reached the moon and returned 4,316 images of the surface before it collided intentionally with the surface.

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NASA fed some Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches and mice

Read full article: NASA fed some Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches and mice

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were able to secure lunar samples from the surface of the moon from the Apollo 11 mission and bring them back to Earth. However, in order to ensure that it was safe to store lunar samples on Earth, scientists had to run a number of tests to make sure contamination was not possible, according to NASA. "We had to prove that we weren't going to contaminate not only human beings, but we weren't going to contaminate fish and birds and animals and plants and you name it," said Charles Berry, head of medical operations during Apollo, in an oral history. "They didn't find any microbial growth on the lunar samples, and they didn't have any microorganisms that they at least initially attributed to any extraterrestrial source or lunar source," said Hayes. It wasn't until after the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 that NASA felt it was safe enough to stop testing on animals and to end the quarantine process for astronauts and lab technicians working with any lunar samples.

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11 things to know about the historic Apollo 11 mission

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To pull it off, the Apollo astronauts and the teams that supported them put in grueling hours of training. Cool'The Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins traveled 240,000 miles in 76 hours to reach the moon. The Apollo 11 astronauts, meanwhile, had more than 70 food items to choose from. 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 missionThe full triumph of Apollo 11 doesn't just belong to the astronauts. Over the years, Apollo Mission Control and its surrounding rooms fell into disrepair.

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Looking back on the Apollo 11 Launch

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This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Neil A. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin taking humanity's first steps on the moonCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

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