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Reference Everything you need to know about the Polaris Program, a series of upcoming commercial space missions carried out by civilian astronauts.

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Reference The European Space Agency's Euclid mission will map 1.5 billion galaxies while searching for dark matter and dark energy.

Reference Relics from the birth of the solar system, asteroids provide us with a window into our cosmic neighborhood's violent past.

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Reference What will be the world's most powerful radio telescopes promises to make transformative leaps in our understanding of galaxies, black holes, dark energy, fast-radio bursts and even SETI.

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Reference Earthquakes are one of Earth's biggest and deadliest natural disasters. Here we explore earthquakes in more detail while uncovering how and why they happen.

Reference Spaceport Cornwall is the UK's first licensed spaceport. Here we explore the air-launch hub in more detail.

Reference We take a look at the small satellite launch provider Virgin Orbit, exploring the company's history, how it works, and the tech it uses.

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Reference Polaris Dawn is the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. The mission will fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and be commanded by Jared Isaacman.

Reference SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, was a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 SP aircraft that studied infrared light, essentially heat, emitted by objects in the universe.

Reference NASA’s Lucy mission is the first to visit the Trojan asteroids. Lucy will help answer questions about the formation of the solar system.

Reference Discover how gluons bind quarks together to form protons and neutrons and explore the form weird form of matter in which they existed just after the Big Bang.

Reference Olympus Mons rises 16 miles above the Martian surface, making it the solar system's tallest volcano.