B612’s new Asteroid Institute enlists UW researchers to help protect our planet The B612 Foundation is setting up an Asteroid Institute to study techniques for detecting and diverting near-Earth objects that may… Read More
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Former astronaut: NASA ‘certainly not dead, but they are lost at the moment’ Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu, who logged more than 206 days in space over his career, said there are a… Read More
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