Microgravity is also an ideal environment for growing the kind of defect-free crystals needed for semiconductors and AI chips. She notes that a single crystal could be produced in space and brought back to Earth to seed more error-free crystals effectively.

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

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Artemis I lasted 25 days, focused on testing the Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle moniker, not only for a return flight to the moon but also for missions much farther into space. One legacy of the Apollo adventure is providing a foundation for much more expansive space exploration. This successful test mission was launched on Nov. 16, 2025.

The space agency is targeting Wednesday, April 1, to launch a crew of four astronauts on a potentially record-breaking journey around the moon and back The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency

Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our collective ingenuity.

There seems to be something of a “been there, done that” impression this time, a sense that the American public wasn’t “sold” in advance on the Artemis objectives. In terms of public interest, space flight seems to be losing out to college basketball.

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative with the goals of going back to the moon "to stay" and, eventually, missions to Mars, Muir-Harmony said. The initiative was ended by Bush's successor, President Bill Clinton, due to costs and in favor of less expensive missions.

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At Dexter Southfield in Brookline, the alma mater of President John F. Kennedy, his legacy and vision for space exploration are once again taking center stage.

A new era of high-speed space exploration may be on the horizon as researchers at the University of Basel have successfully tested a semi-autonomous, four-legged robot capable of