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The NASA's 'Artemis' mission aims to return to the Moon. The original schedule for this endeavor, set to happen later this year, has, however, experienced delays. A previous US mission had failed in attempting a lunar landing.

Since landing almost three months ago, NASA has faced challenges in opening the container holding soil samples from the asteroid "Bennu." While the braking parachute failed during the landing in the Utah desert, the main parachutes compensated for its absence. However, a new issue arises as the lid of the sample container cannot be fully opened due to two screws being unresponsive. Experts at the Johnson Space Center in Houston are attempting to retrieve at least part of the valuable cargo using forceps since the container cannot be fully opened. Additionally, there is material located outside the container.

The NASA spacecraft "Lucy" brought a remarkable surprise during its initial close encounter with an asteroid. The first images sent back to Earth indicated that "Dinkinesh" isn't a single asteroid but rather an asteroid pair, as revealed by the US space agency NASA on Thursday.

Houston - According to the US space agency NASA, a sample of rubble from asteroid Bennu, which was dropped to Earth approximately three weeks ago, contains traces of water and carbon. Initial investigations of the sample revealed these findings, but further in-depth analyses are still required, NASA announced during a press conference on Wednesday, where they also unveiled photos and videos of the sample for the first time. This marks the first successfully brought to Earth sample from an asteroid in the history of the US space agency, and it is the largest such sample ever collected.

It was a brief, intense puff. Then, dust and rocks that had remained untouched for billions of years were sent into the air. The collection of the rock sample from the asteroid Bennu, far out in space, lasted just five seconds. Following that, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent more than two years returning to Earth.

The NASA rover Perseverance has now successfully produced oxygen on Mars for the 16th and final time, surpassing the mission's expectations. This announcement comes from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the U.S. space agency. Since the activation of the Moxie instrument (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), 122 grams of oxygen have been produced. This is equivalent to what a small dog would breathe in over 10 hours, or approximately four hours of oxygen for an adult human. In total, Moxie generated 12 grams per hour, more than double the initially expected amount. The achieved purity level was at 98 percent or higher.

Four astronauts have launched from the NASA spaceport at Cape Canaveral towards the ISS (International Space Station). Propelled by a Falcon-9 rocket, the team consists of the US-American Jasmin Moghbeli, Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian Konstantin Borisov aboard the SpaceX capsule named Dragon. After nearly 24 hours, it is expected to dock at the outpost of humanity around 400 kilometers above Earth.