crewed spaceflight Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:30:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png crewed spaceflight Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 How the Applied Physics Laboratory is tackling Artemis moon exploration https://spacenews.com/how-the-applied-physics-laboratory-is-tackling-challenges-facing-artemis-moon-exploration/ https://spacenews.com/how-the-applied-physics-laboratory-is-tackling-challenges-facing-artemis-moon-exploration/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=445932 Image showing an astronaut on the moon sifting dust through their fingers.
Image showing an astronaut on the moon sifting dust through their fingers.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is tackling many of the challenges facing crewed Artemis missions.

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]]> https://spacenews.com/how-the-applied-physics-laboratory-is-tackling-challenges-facing-artemis-moon-exploration/feed/ 0 445932 America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally flew. Now it’s time to make more https://spacenews.com/americas-first-black-astronaut-candidate-finally-flew-now-time-make-more/ https://spacenews.com/americas-first-black-astronaut-candidate-finally-flew-now-time-make-more/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=443996 Ed Dwight exits Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on May 19, 2024. Credit: Blue Origin / Felix Kunze
Ed Dwight exits Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on May 19, 2024. Credit: Blue Origin / Felix Kunze

Ed Dwight was supposed to be the first astronaut of color. Now the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship is trying to create space opportunities for Black students.

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