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Space and Climate Change

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(December 22, 2023) – World Space Week Association today announced that the theme for World Space Week, October 4-10, 2024, will be “Space & Climate Change.” “We will emphasize the essential role that space plays in monitoring the Earth’s climate and mitigating climate change,” said Association President Dennis Stone.  “This theme aims to spark worldwide educational and public outreach initiatives, showcasing the crucial and integral part that space plays in understanding our global environment,” he […]

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Space is for Everyone

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If you missed the launch of the most recent human spaceflight, fret not. You might find yourself bound for space in the next few years, and no one would have known. The latest orbital conquest consists of an all-civilian four-person crew dubbed the Inspiration4. The entire mission is funded by billionaire-entrepreneur-pilot Jared Isaacman to blast off into space with SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft powered by the Falcon 9 rocket. To see how it all began, you

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The Art of Science

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“Rules and laws differ from one country to another, but the rules of physics are a constant”. This eloquent quote made Sharafina Razin fall in love with physics. As the recipient of the 2019 HELP President’s Award, Sharafina is bound to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London this coming September. Sharafina’s journey to pursue her dreams is extraordinary, to say the least, as it began in her

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Bangsa Angkasa

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Syukran Idris has come a long way in the social entrepreneurship sector since his initial visit to an event organised by MaGIC in 2015 to launch the Malaysian Social Enterprise Blueprint. He chanced upon AstroX’s booth that promoted space-related programmes using the STEM approach. Having worked in the corporate industry for ten years, Syukran states that between the age of 30 to 35 years old, you will need to decide on what you would like

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You May Not Like How it Looks, but SpaceX Spacesuits get a ‘5-star’ Rating from Astronauts​

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The astronauts of the test flight Demo-2, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken wore for the first time the new spacesuits of SpaceX towards the International Space Station. “I bet we’ve worn these clothes a couple of hundred times,” Hurley said during a press conference aboard the space station. SpaceX space suits were tailored for astronauts and therefore widely used during training for the Demo-2 mission. The spacesuits are not designed for spacewalks, but only for launches and

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