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A rocket to the moon carrying human remains launched as scheduled this morning despite objections from the Navajo Nation.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has asked NASA to delay a scheduled launch to the Moon that could include cremated remains. He says the Moon is sacred to numerous Indigenous cultures and that depositing human remains on it is “tantamount to desecration.”

The annular solar eclipse will be visible in eights states in the West and Southwest, including Arizona. NASA has released an interactive map to track the solar eclipse across its path.

The super blue moon will likely be visible after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and will appear full until around Friday morning. Another won’t be seen until January 2037.

NASA is the latest entity to challenge a lithium mining project in Nevada, citing concerns over the ability to calibrate critical satellite measurements.

It’s the middle of summer, but a science laboratory at Northern Arizona University is full of ice. Not just any ice, but bizarre kinds only found on faraway planets. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny took a tour to see how scientists are making so called “exotic ices” that might exist in the outer reaches of the solar system.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly has been inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame as part of its 24th class.

Walter Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, which paved the way for the moon landing.

NASA’s Artemis program intends to return humans to the moon after a half-century hiatus. But first, astronauts and engineers have to train and test lifesaving equipment here on Earth. So they’re returning to the same places where Apollo astronauts used to practice fifty years ago—the moonlike lava fields of Northern Arizona. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.

James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93.