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NASA spacecraft takes rocks from 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid; This is what it reveals about the first signs of life. | Top Vip News

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[ad_1] NASA scientists recently conducted a study on asteroid rocks that their spacecraft took from a “potentially dangerous” distant asteroid. The findings reveal that the spacecraft managed to capture a significant portion of the asteroid, almost more than double what was expected. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx capsule was brought to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in … Read more

Watch SpaceX launch a private cargo spacecraft to the ISS on January 30 | Top Vip News

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[ad_1] SpaceX will launch a private cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station this week and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch Northrop Grumman’s latest Cygnus robotic freighter on Tuesday (January 30) at 12:07 pm EST (1707 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. You … Read more

NASA spacecraft detects Japan’s lunar lander on lunar surface | Top Vip News

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[ad_1] Washington, January 27 (IANS): NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has detected the Japanese Intelligent Moon Research Lander (SLIM) that landed on the lunar surface last week. Japan is the fifth country to complete a soft landing on the lunar surface, after Russia, the United States, China and India. SLIM of the … Read more