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NASA will license its FDA-approved ventilator to manufacturers for free
A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and designed to treat COVID-19 has received FDA approval via a fast-tracked emergency use authorization. Now, NASA is looking for a medical industry partner to manufacture the device. It will… Source
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Here’s how Blue Origin’s human lander system will carry astronauts to the lunar surface
[embedded content] Blue Origin was among the companies selected by NASA to develop and build a human lander system for its Artemis missions, which include delivering the next man and first woman to the surface of the Moon in 2024. The Jeff Bezos -founded space company chose to deliver a…
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Blue Origin and SpaceX win contracts to develop NASA’s Moon spacecraft
As it teased earlier in the week, NASA has awarded contracts in its quest for a Moon landing — and it’s a big win for the upstarts in the spaceflight industry. The administration has chosen Blue Origin, SpaceX and IT firm Dynetics to compete against… Source
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SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics will build human lunar landers for NASA’s next trip back to the Moon
NASA has selected the companies that will provide them with the human landing system for their Artemis Moon missions, including a lander vehicle which will carry astronauts from space to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972. Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics were picked from a larger field…
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Here’s what NASA’s Mars helicopter will look like when it makes history with the first extraterrestrial powered flight
[embedded content] NASA is getting ready to send its next Mars rover to the red planet later this year, and that mission will also carry Ingenuity, a brand new helicopter robot that will attempt to make history by becoming the first vehicle to perform a powered atmospheric flight on another…
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How NASA’s new moon map will guide future manned missions
If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t know the moon’s topography cold, the first human moon landing might have been aborted or worse. Now that NASA is planning new missions to the Moon with project Artemis, it needs the most detailed maps of our s… Source
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