A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
NASA affirmed on Wednesday a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk's SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so "as soon as practical," the day after President Donald Trump suggested he wants a quicker return for the crew.
"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.
NASA appears to be retaining existing plans to return astronauts from the International Space Station after calls to bring them back “as soon as possible.”
Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.
Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.
President Donald Trump asked billionaire Elon Musk to “go get” two astronauts that have been aboard the International Space Station since June 2024, claiming the Biden administration had “virtually abandoned” them even though NASA has said for months it plans to bring them home soon.
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Northern Michigan University is hosting the inaugural rebranding of Innovation Week, now Peak25, on Feb. 20-21. “Peak25 is the next iteration of Innovation Week,” said Bill Digneit, director of SISU: The Innovation Institute at NMU.
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