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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission faces challenge as scientists struggle to access precious asteroid sample

Scientists will analyse the asteroid sample to investigate the origins of life on Earth.

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

Artemis 2's moon crew is meeting a new generation of training. New tech, diversity and instructors form a team aiming to safely send four astronauts around the moon.

This video from NASA shows just how much space the four CHAPEA crew members will be sharing during their year-long mission.

The next time the CHAPEA crew will see blue sky, a year will have passed on Earth. Not that the analog astronauts are leaving the planet, but for the next 12 months they will live in a mock Mars base.

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully harvested oxygen from simulated lunar soil using a special high-temperature reactor.

The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen is a trusted voice in the astronaut office, a key player in training an astronaut class, and now a member of the first moon mission in 50 years.

Axiom Space built the new suits for Artemis III, the first moon landing since 1972. But the costumes were designed by the people behind "For All Mankind."

NASA has selected two companies, Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, to make spacesuits for its moon program and future International Space Station (ISS) missions. They will replace the current suits that were made 40 years ago, reported Agence France Press (AFP). "History will be made with the suits when we…