SpaceX continues to make things look easy after launching and docking the Crew 8 to the ISS while prepping the 3rd test for the Starship. The Curiosity Rover is climbing through time on the surface of Mars. Orion's hatch has a design flaw and could cause delays. And astronomers have discovered a moon orbiting Uranus and two moons orbiting Neptune.

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ILM's Odysseus is going to sleep but sunlight could still wake it up. SpaceX was forced to cancel a launch due to weather but decided to launch a different rocket instead. A glancing blow CME could graze the Earth this weekend. A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than Earth's oceans. And NASA's DART strike on Dimorphos has some new data.

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Intuitive Machines Odysseus will attempt to land on the Moon today. The Europpean "zombie sat" has successfully crash landed into t he Pacific. Another giant sunspot is big enough to see without magnification. 12P/Pons-Brooks comet will be close to the Sun during April's solar eclipse. The brightest quasar ever seen eats a "sun a day".

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SpaceX has been very busy with successful launches and some of them are very significant... including the successful mission by the Ax-3 crew who landed back on Earth after time at the ISS. A new study says that dying stars could move the habitable zone in their solar systems and melt ice down to liquid water and it could last long enough for life to emerge. And a temporary mini-moon orbiting Venus has been given a strange name.

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An image of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars shows it sitting all alone in the sand now that it's out of service. Ax-3's crew of private astornauts is on the way home from the ISS. One of Saturn's moons could possibly have liquid water. A massive sunspot that is visible from Mars could be visible from Earth (please use protective eyewear before you look). And a zombie satellite is heading back to the Earth's surface later this month.

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Japan's SLIM Moon lander isn't dead yet after sunlight reached its solar panels giving it life. Ingenuity however has ended its service on Mars after a crash and 72 flights. ISS astronaut has been controling a robot on Earth. And Polaris Dawn wants to send up two astronauts for a historic spacewalk.

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Japan has become the 5th nation to successfully land a craft on the Moon, but the solar panels did not deploy and the batteries can't charge. Astrobotic's Peregrine lander has burned up in Earth's atmosphere ending its failed mission to land on the Moon. NASA remembers lives lost in the name of space discovery with their annual day of remembrance. JWST has given scientists a look back in time with interesting data.

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Axiom Space's Ax-3 mission is scheduled to launch today and take a crew of astronauts from four countries to the ISS. Scientists begin the examine the contents of the OSIRIS-REx sample container. NASA has made a selection for an upcoming Venus mission. And get ready for the Great American Solar Eclipse.

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NASA has made the decision to move its next two Moon missions ro September 2025 and 2026. Astrobotic's Peregrine Moon lander will not successfully land on the Moon however ULA's Vulcan rocket was a success. JWST has given astronomers a look at aurora over a failed star and are not sure why it's there. Peggy Whitson has loaned one of her Axiom space suits to Space Center Houston to display and let the world know that private space missions are "real".

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SpaceX has an amazing end to 2023 with two launches less than three hours apart and accomplishing a 96 launch year. Juno has the 2nd closest pass of Io but the closest in a very long time. A new rocket could mean a faster way to travel to Mars. The Ingenuity copter sets a new record while accomplishing an incredible 70th flight which is 65 more than originally planned.

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