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The Artemis program will land the first person of colour on the moon, according to NASA. The new goal for the program, which seeks to land the first woman and the next man on at the lunar south pole by 2024, comes from the Biden-Harris administration. The administration submitted U.S. President Joe Biden s priorities for 2022 discretionary spending to Congress Friday. It calls for an increase of more than 6 per cent from the previous year, according to NASA. This US$24.7 billion funding request demonstrates the Biden Administration s commitment to NASA and its partners who have worked so hard this past year under difficult circumstances and achieved unprecedented success, said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk in a statement.
On Earth Day, here’s the view from space
The view from space of our planet’s most impressive natural and constructed landmarks is striking, and not just on this year’s Earth Day.
The long and winding Grand Canyon; the European Union’s longest river, the Danube; and the 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China become almost abstract works of art when photographed from space.
NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr., who conducted his third spacewalk in late February, talked then about how fragile Earth looks from space, and “just how special it is for there to be human life on this planet.”
Updated: 11:37 AM EDT Apr 22, 2021 By Katia Hetter and Ashley Strickland, CNN The view from space of our planet s most impressive natural and constructed landmarks is striking, and not just on this year s Earth Day.The long and winding Grand Canyon; the European Union s longest river, the Danube; and the 13,000 miles of the Great Wall of China become almost abstract works of art when photographed from space.NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr., who conducted his third spacewalk in late February, talked then about how fragile Earth looks from space, and just how special it is for there to be human life on this planet. It makes me want to do all that I can to protect that, Glover said.Many of the photos shown here were shot by EarthKAM, a project started in 1995 by the late Sally Ride, America s first woman in space. It was first called KidSat. It allows middle school students around the world to ask for images of locations on Earth.The EarthKAM camera flew on two more