Earth & space articles
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Down to Earth with Space Delta 8
On this edition of Down to Earth, we’re checking in with Space Delta 8 - Satellite Communications, to meet U.S. Space Force 1st Lt. Alexander Knoedler, 4th Space Operations Squadron satellite engineer.
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'Simply stunning’: Incredible images of Earth from space
Voyager photographs the homeworld from two distinct angles. For the first time in history, a single frame captured the entirety of the Earth and Moon in 1977 at a distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million kilometers). Earth appears as a small blue dot in a ray of sunshine in the second photo, which was shot in 1990 as part of a family portrait of our solar system from 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers). This is the well-known Pale Blue Dot picture that Carl Sagan immortalized. (Image...
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Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 6 months on space station
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station. The craft and three astronauts landed in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday evening. The spacecraft carrying a replacement crew had arrived at the orbiting space station about four days earlier. China plans