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Photos of the moon captured by American, Russian, European, Japanese, Indian, Korean and Chinese spacecraft are the subject of new United Nations (UN) postage stamps commemorating the 55th anniversary of the NASA‘s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. The UN Postal Administration (UNPA) will release six se-tenant postage stamps and three souvenir sheets on Saturday (July …

United Nations Marks Apollo 11 55th With International Moon Missions Stamps. Read More »

A new quantum computer has broken a world record in “quantum supremacy,” topping the performance of benchmarking set by Google’s Sycamore machine by 100-fold. Using the new 56-qubit H2-1 computer, scientists at quantum computing company Quantinuum ran various experiments to benchmark the machine’s performance levels and the quality of the qubits used. They published their …

New Quantum Computer Smashes ‘Quantum Supremacy’ Record By A Factor of 100 — And It Consumes 30,000 Times Less Power. Read More »

Key Highlight NIGCOMSAT partners with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) to support Nigeria’s broadcasting services Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has partnered with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) to provide uplink services on the NIGCOMSAT satellite network, aiming to enhance Nigeria’s broadcasting landscape. This three-month collaboration will help improve the quality and reach …

NIGCOMSAT and BON Partner to Elevate the Nigeria’s Broadcasting Landscape. Read More »

NASA is honoring a ‘hidden figure’ and all of the women who contributed to the Apollo program with the naming of a building in Houston, where at the time of the moon missions it was part of the “Manned” Spacecraft Center. The agency’s Johnson Space Center (renamed for the president in 1973) marked the 55th …

NASA Marks Moon Landing Anniversary By Dedicating Building To ‘Women of Apollo’. Read More »

This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX‘s privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer. The four-person crew, which includes the mission’s funder, billionaire philanthropist Jared Isaacman, recently completed acceptance testing for SpaceX’s new extravehicular activity (EVA) spacesuits, which they will wear …

Polaris Dawn Crew Shows Off New SpaceX Spacesuits For 1st Private Spacewalk. Read More »

NASA says its next spacewalk will be delayed indefinitely until engineers understand more about what caused a coolant leak on June 24. Tracy Dyson, a NASA astronaut, had a brief spacesuit leak a month ago while still in the hatch of the International Space Station (ISS). She and Mike Barrett had just opened the door …

NASA Delays ISS Spacewalks Indefinitely To Investigate Spacesuit Coolant Leak. Read More »

Virgin Galactic’s future fleet of commercial space planes will now have a home where they will be brought to life starting next year. Virgin Galactic’s new “Delta” class space planes are set to take flight no earlier than 2026. The final flight of their previous space plane, VSS Unity, took place on June 8 and …

Virgin Galactic Completes New Delta Space Plane Manufacturing Facility In Arizona. Read More »

NASA will perform its own re-authorization of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before the rocket launches its next astronaut crew or cargo mission, the agency confirmed Wednesday (July 17). Falcon 9 experienced a rare failure during an engine burn of SpaceX rocket’s second stage, due to an oxygen leak, during a launch on Thursday (July 11). A …

SpaceX Launches To ISS Are Under Independent NASA Review After Rare Falcon 9 Rocket Failure. Read More »

An astronaut assigned to back up a historic moon mission was seeing orange last week. NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, recently named backup for the Artemis 2 round-the-moon flight scheduled for 2025, finished a standard spacesuit fit check in the agency’s orange outfit. Then he posted how it looked in different positions on X, formerly Twitter. …

Snazzy Spacesuit! Artemis 2 Moon Mission Backup Astronaut Andre Douglas Tries On His Lunar Duds. Read More »