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In November 2022, The European Space Agency named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space.

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NASA researchers successfully launched CAPSTONE spacecraft from New Zealand to the Moon on 28 June 2022.

CAPSTONE: Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment. 

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Chinese astronauts have set a new world record for the longest spacewalk, 9 hours.

Chinese astronauts who have booked space are 'Kae Juzhe' and 'song lingdog'.

They have done many improvements by doing a spacewalk on China's Tianggong Space Station. 

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NASA has named David Salvagnini as the agency's first chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer.

Salvagnini is also the agency's chief data officer.

Salvagnini is appointed in May 2024.

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Note: NASA is the space agency of the USA

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In October 2023, NASA launched spacecraft named 'Psyche' to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system.

NASA is the space agency of USA.

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• KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) is the space agency of South Korea.
• KARI was established in 1989.
• It is responsible for the development of spacecraft, launch vehicles, and satellites.

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After the launch of Rehber-1 in 1962 by SUPARCO, Pakistan became the third country in Asia, after Israel and Japan, first country in South Asia, the Islamic world and the tenth in the entire world to launch a rocket into space. 

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• CNSA (China National Space Administration) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China.
• It was established in 1993.
• It is responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation.

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NASA launched the Europa Clipper Mission to explore Jupiter's moon.

In October 2024, NASA launched this spacecraft to learn whether conditions on Jupiter’s moon could sustain life in what scientists believe could be a deep ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.

Note: NASA is the space agency of the USA.

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China launched Change'e-6 mission to collect samples from the far side of the Moon and bring them to Earth.

China's Chang'e-6 moon mission returns to Earth with historic far side samples

China launched Change'e-6 mission on 3 May 2024.

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