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Two private companies are aiming to get the U.S. back in the moon-landing business, more than five decades after the Apollo program ended

Google bot Bard says humans are invaders of Earth and Elon Musk is their overlord: Report The assertion comes mere months after former Pentagon intelligence officer David Grusch told Congress that the American government has been hiding evidence of crashed UAPs and alien biological specimens. “I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program.

NASA highlights the growing level of cooperation between the US and India in outer space. The potential partnerships could also involve Indian commercial entities, India’s Department of Space said in a statement Wednesday. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is visiting several locations in India this week, including Bengaluru-based facilities that are testing and integrating spacecraft for a joint US-Indian Earth-observing mission scheduled for launch in 2024.

Natural History Museum in London. The Bennu asteroid which is thought to be 4.6 billion years old, dates back to the dawn of the solar system. A sample of rock and dust retrieved from the asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon molecules, both building blocks for life as we know it, NASA chief Bill Nelson had said in October.

partnership between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). «Touchdown in India! Ready to embark on a week of engaging meetings and events to grow @NASA's partnership with @ISRO. India is a leader in space and we're looking forward to a productive visit,» Nelson wrote in a post on X. Speaking to the media, he congratulated India for landing on the South Pole of the moon, noting that «the US will be sending private landers to the south pole in 2024, but India has already done it.» He said that «India is a great partner for NASA,» and that the US space agency will help India's vision to build its own space station by 2040.

Bill Nelson touched down in India on his maiden on Tuesday, expressing his enthusiasm for a week of meetings and events aimed at strengthening the partnership between NASA and ISRO. Nelson's visit to India will fulfill a commitment as part of the US and India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology initiated by President Joe Biden.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is set to travel to India and the UAE beginning Monday for a series of meetings with key government officials. Nelson will also meet with space officials in both countries to deepen bilateral cooperation across a broad range of innovation and research-related areas, especially in human exploration and Earth science, the American space agency NASA said in a release. Nelson's visit to India will fulfil a commitment as part of the US and India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology initiated by President Joe Biden. In the India leg, Nelson will visit several locations, including the Bengaluru-based facilities where the NISAR spacecraft, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and its Indian counterpart ISRO, is undergoing testing and integration for launch in 2024.

NASA astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95

NASA has confirmed the passing of Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II at the age of 87. Mattingly was a pivotal figure in the Apollo Program and played a crucial role in ensuring the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew to Earth after an onboard explosion jeopardized their lunar mission. In a statement, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson expressed his condolences and described Mattingly as «one of our country's heroes» who made significant contributions to the success of the Apollo Program. Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II passed away on Tuesday in in Arlington, Virginia, with the cause of death not specified in the statement. Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, a former Navy jet pilot with an aeronautical engineering degree, joined NASA in 1966 and embarked on his first spaceflight in April 1972 as part of the Apollo 16 mission. Serving as the pilot of the spacecraft's command module, Mattingly captured extensive images of the moon's surface and conducted experiments while two other astronauts collected lunar samples. During the return journey to Earth, Mattingly performed an extravehicular activity to retrieve film canisters containing photos of the moon. He had previously named the spacecraft «Casper» due to the resemblance he saw between an astronaut in a spacesuit and the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Following the conclusion of the Apollo program, Mattingly assumed a role in the astronaut support office for the space shuttle program, which aimed to transport astronauts to and from the future International Space Station in Earth's orbit.

Thomas K. Mattingly, a distinguished astronaut known for his pivotal role in the Apollo 16 mission, has passed away at the age of 87, as announced by NASA on Thursday.

Approximately 30 minutes prior to the briefing, NASA will make the team's complete report available online. The primary objective of this report is to provide insights to NASA regarding potential data collection strategies in the future, with the aim of shedding light on the nature and origin of UAP. In 2022, NASA assembled a panel of experts to scrutinize data related to UAP, a term for UFOs. UAP includes abnormal objects or occurrences in the sky, underwater, or in space that cannot be immediately identified. Now, the team is preparing to release its inaugural report on Thursday, offering recommendations to NASA on how to enhance the collection and analysis of data that could contribute to understanding the nature and origin of UAP. It's crucial to emphasize that, as stated in NASA's announcement of the briefing, the report does not assess or review previous unidentified observations.

India Wednesday on the successful moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 as the country entered the elite club of three other nations — United States, Russia and China — that have a rover on the lunar surface. In the process, India became the first country among the elite group to have its rover on the moon's south pole region, which the Indian Space Research Organisation believes could have traces of water. «Congratulations to India for the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon,» US Vice President Kamala Harris said on X, known as Twitter till recently. «It is an incredible feat for all the scientists and engineers involved.

Narendra Modi and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the successful landing of Chandrayan-3 on the surface of the moon on Wednesday. Nepal PM took to his social media 'X, (formerly known as Twitter), and said, "I congratulate Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji and ISRO team of India on successful landing of Chandrayan-3 in the surface of the moon today and unleashing of a historic achievement in science and space technology." Foreign Minister of Maldives, Abdulla Shahid congratulated PM Modi on the success of ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited the Brazilian space research center INPE on Wednesday and proposed extending satellite partnerships with the United States to help monitor and prevent the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Nelson said NASA will have a satellite in January that can even render images of what is happening below the forest canopy. The satellite, called NISAR, will be launched with India.

Webb Space Telescope, an extraordinary observatory that has been in the hands of astronomers for a year now. To commemorate this occasion, NASA has released a spectacular new image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Located just 400 light-years away, Rho Ophiuchi is the closest star-forming region to us.

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed on Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.

Our view of the universe has just expanded.

The prospect of losses on the Federal Reserve’s holdings of securities is a real issue for U.S. taxpayers, a former top central bank staffer wrote in a research note Wednesday.

A former top Federal Reserve staffer said in a web posting Tuesday that a new central bank facility designed to help address market liquidity issues may be falling short of its potential, and that has implications for the looming campaign of monetary policy tightening.