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Graphic illustration with 'space calendar' in large blue neon letters and 2023 below it in smaller white letters. Below the title are four neon images depicting a meteor or comet, a telescope, a rocket launch and an astronaut's helmet. There is a starry background to the entire image. Space calendar 2024: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more! BySpace.com last updated 4 July 24 ReferenceKeep up with all the rocket launches, astronomical events and mission milestones for 2024 with our space calendar.

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Six people in the low gravity environment of the international space station, positioned with three in front and three in the back. NASA astronauts send Fourth of July message to Earth from ISS (video) ByMike Wall published 4 July 24 The six NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station beamed a message down to Earth to celebrate the United States' 248th birthday.

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Two glowing blue arcs joined by a bright red smeared sphere. Happy 4th of July! Infant star creates red, white and blue fireworks in new JWST image ByRobert Lea published 4 July 24 Just in time for Independence Day, the James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a red, white and blue fireworks display, courtesy of an infant star at the heart of a dense cloud of gas and dust.

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NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission: Live updates ByTariq Malik, Elizabeth Howell last updated 4 July 24 NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.

a rusty red rocky surface with a hazy red sky. On this day in space! July 4, 1997: Mars Pathfinder arrives on Mars ByHanneke Weitering last updated 4 July 24 On July 4, 1997, NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet.

view from a rocket's upper stage looking down on earth from orbit Firefly Aerospace launches 8 cubesats to orbit on 5th-ever launch ByMike Wall last updated 4 July 24 Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launched for the fifth time ever just after midnight on Thursday (July 4), sending eight cubesats to orbit.

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an astronaut on the space station with the background blurry behind him Streaks in space! ISS astronaut's incredible timelapse photos highlight ghostly solar panels and lovely star trails ByElizabeth Howell published 3 July 24 NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick has spent some of the last few months experimenting with long exposures in space photography. The images give a rare glimpse of life on the move in orbit.

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Illustration of a Polaris Dawn crewmember conducting the first-ever private spacewalk. SpaceX targeting July 31 for launch of historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission ByElizabeth Howell published 3 July 24 SpaceX is targeting July 31 for the launch of the four-astronaut Polaris Dawn mission, which will feature the first-ever private spacewalk.

a black-and-white spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a blue sky. SpaceX to launch NASA gamma-ray space telescope in 2027 ByMike Wall published 3 July 24 NASA picked SpaceX's Falcon 9 to be the rocket ride for its COSI gamma-ray space telescope, which is targeted to lift off in August 2027.

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