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Fast Forward NASA Signs Deal With Israel Space Agency For Lunar Mission
JERUSALEM (JTA) — NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency and the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL to collaborate on the Jewish state’s unmanned moon mission slated to launch from Cape Canaveral next year. The landing would culminate eight years of collaboration on the $88 million project. If it succeeds, Israel will become the…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Transforms For Role Inspired By Diaper-Wearing Astronaut
Good news for approximately the first time since 2016: Natalie Portman will play a married astronaut who falls in love with a fellow NASA worker played by Jon Hamm, in a movie that is based off the surreal 2007 story of the astronaut love-triangle that ended with a woman driving cross country in a space…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Astronaut Records Holocaust Remembrance Message In Outer Space
(JTA) — American astronaut Andrew “Drew” Feustel didn’t let being in outer space stop him from commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day. Instead, Feustel recorded a video message aboard the International Space Station to honor the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. In the video released on Thursday, the NASA astronaut displayed a replica of a…
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Fast Forward The First Torah Reading In Orbit And 5 Other Fun Facts About Jews In Space
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Torah tells how God created the earth and the heavens, although the stories that follow tell us more about the former than the latter. A new exhibit doesn’t quite answer theological questions about space, but it does show the ways in which Jews have looked at, written about and traveled into…
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Fast Forward Why You Can’t Keep Kosher In Space
Kashrut-observant children who dream of becoming astronauts may have to rethink their plans. NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory, which develops, produces, and packages food for every American astronaut, only has one packaging facility, the lab’s manager, Vickie Kloeris, explained to Space.com. This means that foods that may have otherwise been kosher would come in contact…
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Opinion Astronaut Snaps Stunning Photos of Israel. Spot the ’67 Lines from Space!
NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore shot a series of amazing photos of Israel from on board the International Space Station as it passed over the region on a crystal-clear Christmas morning 10 days ago. They were posted on the International Space Station’s Facebook page. They are not color-enhanced. This is what it actually looks like from…
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Opinion This Week in Milestones: War, Peace, Deep Space
We’re in a season of anniversaries and memories, many of them exceedingly melancholy: the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that ignited the global financial crisis, September 15, 2008 (5 years ago); the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, September 11, 2001 (12 years ago); the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 10 Tishri 1973 (40 years ago…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Astronaut Hubby Mark Kelly and Twin To Be NASA Guinea Pigs
NASA’s only identical twin astronauts are planning to serve as guinea pigs for studies investigating the genetic impacts of long-duration spaceflight. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who commanded four space shuttle missions including the final flight of Endeavour, is set to be a test subject on Earth while his twin undergoes studies in orbit. Kelly left NASA…
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