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  2. A SpaceX capsule just came back to Earth. Here’s why ... - AOL

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    NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will wait until 2025 to return to Earth on their newly assigned spacecraft, SpaceX’s Crew-9. Here’s what they’re doing in space.

  3. New Horizons - Wikipedia

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    After the overload was detected, the spacecraft performed as designed: it switched from the primary computer to the backup computer, entered safe mode, and sent a distress call back to Earth. The distress call was received the afternoon of July 4 and alerted engineers that they needed to contact the spacecraft to get more information and ...

  4. Future of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    Investment in space exploration has dramatically shifted since the 20th century Space race. Space exploration of the late 20th century was driven by competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to achieve the first spaceflight. Now, the private sector and national governments are again investing in space exploration.

  5. Benefits of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    The legacy of the space race is that nations continue to pursue space exploration to enhance their prestige. [2] As the justification for government-funded space programs shifted to "the public good", space agencies began to articulate and measure the wider socio-economic benefits that might derive from their activities, including both the ...

  6. Stephen Hawking: 'Human race has no future' without space travel

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    Stephen Hawking is a supporter of space travel, in part, because he thinks the survival of humanity depends on it. Hawking shared these thoughts in an afterword for Julian Guthrie's book "How to ...

  7. Overview effect - Wikipedia

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    This event, plus research indicating that actively photographing the Earth has positive psychological effects, caused Yaden et al. to posit that studying the overview effect might improve understanding of psychological well-being in isolated, confined, extreme (ICE) environments such as space flight. [3] Early photos of Earth taken from space ...

  8. 2 cosmonauts, NASA astronaut return to Earth after marathon ...

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    But first, the Russians needed to bring Kononenko, Chub and Dyson back to Earth after a marathon mission. The Soyuz MS-25/71S spacecraft undocked from the station at 4:36 a.m. EDT Monday.

  9. Human spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    China was the third nation in the world, after the USSR and US, to send humans into space. During the Space Race between the two superpowers, which culminated with Apollo 11 landing humans on the Moon, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai decided on 14 July 1967 that China should not be left behind, and initiated their own crewed space program: the top ...