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Trump Wants to Get Us Back to the Moon | National Review
Can America and the U.S. space industry stop bickering for long enough to build and launch a mission that will get us back to the moon and lay the basis for the humanization of our solar system ?
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What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
An unprecedented and illuminating study monitored identical twins, one in space and one on Earth.
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NASA Study Subjects Are Getting Paid $18,500 to Stay in Bed for Two Months | Mental Floss
NASA and ESA are testing the effectiveness of artificial gravity by paying 24 lucky volunteers to stay in bed all day.
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First Moon Landing 1969 - YouTube
The video of the very first moon landing of the apollo 11 mission in 1969! Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legenday words "One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind."
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US to Return Astronauts to the Moon by 2024, VP Pence Says
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on NASA to return American astronauts to the moon by 2024 — just five years from now — during the National Space Council meeting on Tuesday (March 26).
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'Wonder, awe, excitement': Apollo 16 astronaut describes walking on the Moon
Charles Duke watched from Mission Control in Houston when his fellow Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic Moon landing on July 20, 1969. Less than three years later he followed in their footsteps as the Apollo 16 lunar modu
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America, the Moon, and National Memory
Even though we may have lost our way in a moment mired in silliness, fluff, and self-flagellation, we are indeed capable of accomplishing the unimaginable.
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Weirdly shaped, very dark: Ultima Thule is revealing the outer solar system’s secrets
Scientists are learning more and more about Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt object visited two months ago by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
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As Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary nears, space fans get ready to celebrate
The countdown is on for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and that means the appointment books for space luminaries and their fans are filling up.
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NASA studying 'untouched' moon rocks from '70s
NASA is taking a closer look at moon rock samples gathered through the Apollo program, launched nearly 50 years ago.
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'Apollo 11' is a stunning record of human ingenuity: Review
The new documentary 'Apollo 11' looks back at the moon landing mission of 1969 through never-before-seen IMAX footage and audio.
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NASA releases sharpest-ever images of distant Kuiper Belt object
NASA has released its highest resolution images of 2014 MU69, showing the strange Kuiper Belt object in exceptional detail.
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NASA Mars rover Opportunity, resilient Red Planet explorer, officially dead
The robotic trailblazer's mission comes to an end after more than 14 years on Mars. Goodnight, Oppy.
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Former White House aide: Trump offered NASA unlimited funding to go to Mars
President Trump in 2017 offered unlimited funding to NASA to send a manned flight to Mars, according to an upcoming book.
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NASA’s list of the best air-filtering houseplants.
NASA research discovered the plants that are most effective at cleaning indoor air.
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Apollo astronaut thinks sending humans to Mars is ‘almost ridiculous’
Mars is the hottest topic in the space science world these days, with new rovers, orbiters, and landers finding out new and exciting things about the Red Planet with startling regularity. Multiple …
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Astronomers spot ‘Farout’, the most distant dwarf planet ever found in our solar system
It's at the edge of our solar system
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Robert Downey Jr. responds to NASA's advice for saving Tony Stark
Ground control to Major Tony: Failure is not an option, space agency tells the superhero's portrayer.
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Watch the Air and Space Museum's Apollo 8 Anniversary Celebration Live
Astronaut James Lovell and others will speak
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NASA Releases Audio From the Surface of Mars
NASA released a video clip containing audio it captured from the surface of Mars.
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OSIRIS-REx has Finally Caught up with Asteroid Bennu. Let the Analysis and Sample Collection Commence! - Universe Today
OSIRIS-REx has reached the asteroid Bennu. It will spend a year studying Bennu from orbit before descending to the surface and collecting a sample.
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NASA will live stream the landing of its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe – BGR
The Mars InSight lander only just touched down on the Red Planet, but NASA is already gearing up for the landing of another incredibly interesting mission.
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Here's How to Watch the Insight Landing on Mars on Monday
In a few days, humanity will once again reach out and touch the surface of a foreign world.
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Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist - Ice Age Now
“It could happen in a matter of months,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. ________________ “The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Just Smashed Two Records in a Single Day
NASA’s historic mission to “touch the Sun” just reached two important milestones: It now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-built object—and also the record for the fastest spacecraft ever sent into space.
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NASA to Host Briefing on November Mars InSight Landing | NASA
NASA's upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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One Giant Flop for Moviekind
John Podhoretz: The new Neil Armstrong biopic starring Ryan Gosling is a joyless schlep.
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Apollo Astronauts Weren’t Just Heroes—They Were Fantastic Photographers | WIRED
Inside the golden age of space photography.
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Astronauts forced to escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
Astronauts Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin have been forced to return to Earth in "ballistic descent mode" after their Soyuz rocket's booster malfunctioned shortly after launch, NASA announced Thursday.
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Voyager 2 probe may be on the edge of interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 probe may be close to joining its sibling and entering interstellar space. The vessel has been detecting a five percent increase in cosmic rays...
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Dwarf planet 'The Goblin' discovery redefining solar system | Science | The Guardian
Massively elongated orbit suggests object is influenced by theoretical giant Planet Nine in Oort Cloud region
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NASA's New Spacecraft Takes First Photo, Finds First Exoplanet
NASA's TESS spacecraft just took its first photo of the night sky, and researchers using that image have found a planet around another star.
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NASA HAS JUST RELEASED 2,540 STUNNING NEW PHOTOS OF MARS - Physics-Astronomy.org
If it's quiet solitude and beauty you seek, there is no better place than the surface of Mars. Mars has earned its moniker as the red planet, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can transform the subtle differences of soi
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Hubble captures mysterious nebula in gorgeous new image – BGR
You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze at whatever they want, but space is just so big that even some of the most interesting anomalies in the sky fall throu
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Buzz Aldrin slams 'First Man' movie controversy, posts photos of US flag on moon with 'Proud to be American' hashtag
Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin took a swipe at the upcoming movie First Man early Monday for its director's decision not to show the planting of the American flag on the moon during the historic 1969 mission.
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Send NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Support As It Battles Epic Dust Storm
While engineers continue to try to revive the Mars rover Opportunity, you can show your support by sending the rover a digital postcard.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to plug this hole with their thumb – BGR
Yesterday, Russian space organization Roscosmos and the European Space Agency broke the news that the International Space Station had sprung a leak. That's a pretty big deal for the astronauts who are riding what amounts to a floating science laboratory,
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New Biopic Of Neil Armstrong, First Man On Moon, Makes One INSANE Omission
A new biopic titled “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who was the first man on the moon, omits one crucial moment in what is arguably t
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NASA shows incredible image of the Sun 'exploding' | Fox News
NASA has unveiled an incredible image of the Sun exploding but fear not – this violent reaction happens on a near constant basis and is nothing to worry about, experts say.
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Nasa probe will still be circling Sun at end of Solar System, say scientists
Nasa's new solar spacecraft is so indestructable that parts of it will be circling the Sun until the Solar System ends, eight billion years from now, scientists have said. The US space agency launches its Parker Solar Probe on Saturday, which will trave
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Today the Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun. - The New York Tim
Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, is the first named for a living person.
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NASA wants you to build your own Mars rover - CNET
The Jet Propulsion Lab's DIY Curiosity rover costs billions less than the real thing.
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NASA will consider sending another Israeli astronaut into space
Science Minister Akunis asks visiting US space administration director Jim Bridenstine for a ride into the sky
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The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion & the family that sent it into space, twice.
In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger stunned the nation when it broke apart 73 seconds into flight. This is the story of the soccer ball that survived -- and the family that sent it into space, twice.
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NASA's Curiosity rover takes stunning selfie during massive dust storm on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken an incredible selfie image during an unprecedented massive dust storm on Mars.
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A Woman Is Suing NASA Over Some Moon Dust Neil Armstrong Once Gave Her
It was a Saturday, and Laura Murray was a 10-year-old girl hanging out with her nanny outside her family's Cincinnati townhouse. Her mother, giddy with excitement, handed the little girl a small glass vial filled with light-gray dust.
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How to stream NASA’s mysterious Mars announcement today – BGR
NASA regularly releases news, scientific papers, and new theories related to Mars, and typically it's with very little fanfare. Scientists have lots of hardware working around the clock to probe the Red Planet's mysteries, and not every minor detail is wo
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NASA's Peggy Whitson Reveals How Astronauts Poop in Space | Inverse
Ever wondered how astronauts poop on the International Space Station? NASA veteran Peggy Whitson has the answer. Whitson makes it clear in the interview that she really loved her time there, except for the whole bathroom aspect of space station life.
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The Supposedly Physics-Defying NASA Thruster Doesn't Work, New Research Confirms
If you want to send something deep, deep into space, it’s impractical to load it up with lots of heavy propellant. Scientists with their eyes on long-distance space travel have contemplated thrusters that wouldn’t need any propellant at all. The EmDri
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Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean Dead at Age 86, Now Only 4 Moonwalkers Left Alive
'Anyone who had the opportunity to know Alan was a better person for it, and we were better astronauts by following his example.'
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NASA Nuclear Reactor Could Enable 'Unprecedented Exploration' of Space
Researchers announced Wednesday that a prototype of a nuclear reactor device just passed a lengthy experiment with flying colors. Kilopower is safe enough to work in space, and the reactor could enable "unprecedented exploration" of the moon, Ma
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NASA Captures Exploding Star
NASA scientists captured images of a supernova, or an exploding star, for the first time and we are totally transfixed by the video. While NASA has been able
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NASA Releases Astounding Video Of The Lagoon Nebula To Celebrate Hubble's Birthday | HuffPost
The nebula is a "raucous star nursery full of birth and destruction," NASA says.
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NASA’s Juno snapped another photo of Jupiter that looks like a watercolor painting – BGR
Out of all the different pieces of NASA hardware floating around our Solar System, the Juno spacecraft probably has the best gig in terms of pure eye candy.
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NASA Hubble telescope snaps Icarus, most distant star seen yet - CNET
The space telescope brings us a look at Icarus, the farthest star ever seen, thanks to an assist from a cosmic magnifying glass.
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Vanguard I has spent six decades in orbit, more than any other craft
As of this month, the US satellite Vanguard I has spent 60 years in orbit and it remains the oldest man-made object in space. Vanguard I was the fourth satellit...
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Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot
The image stitches together several photos to show off the details where night and day meet.
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Space Photos of the Week: Even Geriatric Mars Rovers Know How to Snap Selfies
The Opportunity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. But that doesn't mean it can't put Curiosity's social media skills to shame.
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Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster's Current Location.
Current location of Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster and Starman launched by SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy maiden flight
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SpaceX’s historic Falcon Heavy successfully launches | TechCrunch
SpaceX has had a very good first test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in..
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found a remarkable similarity between Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan – BGR
NASA's Cassini spacecraft went on a long and treacherous mission that ended last year in spectacular fashion. The large space explorer dove into Saturn's atmosphere, exploded into flames, and then disintegrated into nothing.
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NASA to Reveal Energy Breakthrough That Can Take Humans to Mars and Power a Home for 10 Years
The agency hasn't tried building a nuclear fission reactor for space since the 1960s.
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NASA captures rare image of a distant galaxy nearly as old as the Universe itself
When astronomers at NASA capture images of far-off galaxies, they typically appear only as tiny red dots. These distant celestial bodies are so far away that even the strongest telescopes are usually incapable of distinguishing between the many stars cont
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'Totally Wrong' on Jupiter: What Scientists Gleaned from NASA's Juno Mission
By the time Juno launched, astronomers had a pretty good idea of what to expect from the new images and data it would collect at Jupiter — or so they thought.
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How John Young Smuggled a Corned-Beef Sandwich into Space
NASA astronaut John Young, who died Jan. 5, is remembered for a small scandal after he smuggled a corned-beef sandwich into space.
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Solar Systems Are Like Peas in a Pod—But Ours Is Wildly Disordered
Other systems are orderly and neat.
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NASA rover spots strange 'stick-like figures' on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover is eyeing a group of angular formations on Mars that stand out from the usual rocks.
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Incredible NASA image of the Earth and the moon shows how small we really are
It took the picture on its way to a rendezvous with a mysterious asteroid
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NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80
HOUSTON (AP) — NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.
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SpaceX launches a reused Dragon atop a reused Falcon 9 for the first time
SpaceX has moved one step closer to its dream of affordable, efficient reusable space flight: Today for its CRS-13 resupply mission for the International..
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Facts won’t always convince people you're right — a former flight director at NASA shares how he learned to argue better in the wake of a disaster
Former NASA flight director Paul Hill recalls his investigation of the 2003 Columbia disaster — and how it nearly tore the organization apart.
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40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here's what it says
In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is – BGR
Antarctica is a weird place. Scientists have long studied the behavior of its massive ice sheets and the land underneath them in the hopes of understanding the unique geological quirks of the continent, but are frequently puzzled by new discoveries.
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Even more evidence points to alien life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Scientists have discovered that a subsurface ocean on Enceladus could have existed for billions of years, providing plenty of time for microbial alien life to emerge and evolve. One of Saturn’s icy moons, Enceladus is considered one of the best bets f
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Proxima Centauri: Our Closest Cosmic Neighbour May Have an Entire Solar System We Never Knew About
Just last year, scientists announced they had spotted a planet orbiting the star nearest our sun, Proxima Centauri. The discovery is described in a new paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "It’s the first indication o
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NASA Twin Study: Year in Space Changed Scott Kelly All the Way to His DNA
In the space agency’s Twins Study—which investigates the effects of space travel on human health—researchers found that being in space encourages methylation, which is the biological process of switching genes on and off. “Some of the most exciti
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Juno Jupiter Images: NASA Captures Gas Giant in Incredible Detail During Close Approach
Each flyby, a community of Jupiter fans that spans the globe chooses what features JunoCam should focus its lens on. Occasionally more of the frame is black than Jupiter. Here, the image processor was particularly intrigued by the dark ring visible just
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The Art of Space Art
A history of the thriving subgenre of imagining what the surfaces of other planets look like.
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Cassini, NASA's 13-year Saturn mission, has ended - CNN
Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a "death dive" into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA.
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Hubble Telescope Views Blistering Pitch-Black Planet WASP-12b
Twice the size of any planet in our solar system, WASP-12b has the capability to trap at least 94% of the visible starlight falling into its atmosphere.
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Follow Cassini’s final moments before it plunges into Saturn
For the last thirteen years, Cassini has been orbiting Saturn, sending back extraordinary images and data from the ringed planet and its moons.
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5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About
It turns out that a whole lot of famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.
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America's longest-orbiting female astronaut has safely returned home
After spending 665 days whizzing 254 miles above the surface of Earth aboard the International Space Station, Astronaut Peggy Whitson has successfully reentered the atmosphere and set down safely in Kazakhstan.
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NASA's voyager spacecraft still sending data back to Earth after 40 years in operation
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are coming up on their 40-year anniversaries of exploration this August and September.
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NASA's New Plasma Rocket Ready For Testing
The engine could be much more efficient than standard chemical rockets.
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Mars rover sends home spectacular panorama
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity continues to perform some amazing feats despite being long overdue for its expected retirement. The rover, having ventured to a somewhat mysterious site that researchers call Perseverance Valley, has been doing its best to he
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Scientists have a new plan for finding extraterrestrial life in our Solar System
Humanity hasn't even scratched the surface of exploring the Milky Way galaxy, much less the rest of the universe, but when it comes to our own Solar System, we have a pretty good idea of what's here.
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5 weird, and very expensive, space artifacts sold at auction
A space history auction on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing fetched boatloads of cash. Here are some of the strangest items sold.
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Distant Kuiper Belt Object Observed By New Horizons NASA Team In Argentina
NASA researchers with the New Horizons team captured new images of a Kuiper Belt object over the weekend.
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A new generation of giant rockets is about to blast off
SpaceX's long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket is just one of a handful of heavy-lift rockets being developed by companies and NASA.
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This Aurora GIF From NASA Will Leave You Speechless
It's pretty easy to be continually in awe of space and new discoveries around it, but every now and then, NASA outdoes itself. This time it comes from a time-lapse video the organization released on June 30, showcasing the aurora australis lights in
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Mars' version of Niagara Falls is pretty intense
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a new photo of what could be evidence of a 'lava fall' on Mars.
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Elon Musk: SpaceX may launch its biggest and most powerful rocket in 3 months
Elon Musk has broken some tantalizing news about the biggest rocket ever built by his company...
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NASA Rocket Launch Will Create Blue-Green and Red Clouds on Sunday
As long as the weather holds—the launch has been postponed four times already.
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A Teenager Just Built The World's Lightest Satellite - And NASA's Launching It
An Indian teenager has won an international competition to build a functioning satellite, and not only has he produced what is reportedly the world's lightest satellite device - NASA has also agreed to launch it next month.
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Comfort Food Is the Only Way We'll Make It to Mars
Engineering feats aside, we'll need creature comforts if we're ever going to survive in deep space.
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There may be alien life in our solar system, says Nasa
*/ There might be alien life in our own solar system, Nasa has announced. All of the necessary things to support life have been found on one of the moons that orbits Saturn. Enceladus has chemicals that when found on Earth tend to indicate life, suggestin
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NASA's MAVEN Discovers How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere
Mars used to be a warm, wet world, filled with oceans, rivers, and maybe even life. But no longer. Here’s how it happened.
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How prototyping helps NASA take UX into orbit: Q&A with Interaction Designer Ron Kim
Designing web and mobile apps good enough for space exploration poses a special set of UX challenges. NASA’s interaction designer reveals…
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SpaceX to fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018
Elon Musk said two tourists will travel around the moon in 2018 with SpaceX.
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What The "Rogue" EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social
The intense popularity of these new “rogue” Twitter accounts presents unique challenges for the future of how government communicates with its citizens
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Eugene Cernan, last man on the moon, dies - CNN.com
Eugene A. Cernan, the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the surface of the moon, has died, NASA said Monday.
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John Glenn and the courage of the Mercury Seven
In a time before any human had traveled in space, Glenn and his colleagues staked their lives on something that seemed impossible.
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Best air-purifying houseplants, according to NASA - Curbed
Based on research back in the ‘80s, NASA recommended one air-purifying plant for every 100 square feet of space. Here are its healthiest picks.
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What does outer space sound like? Hear NASA's satellite symphony at the Huntington
It could be the start of a Steven Spielberg sci-fi film: A boy walks into a shimmering, aluminum garden pavilion surrounded by lush palms and succulent-lined footpaths. A lizard scurries across the dirt floor and over his sneaker-clad toes. There’s a ma
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NASA's Curiosity rover can now fire its laser on its own. What could possibly go wrong?
NASA's Curiosity rover can now fire its laser on Mars at will. I'm sure it will use this power responsibly.
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NASA’s ‘armored tank’ Juno ventures into a fierce realm of radiation, hunting for Jupiter’s secrets
Heidi Becker crept through the darkened, empty hallways of a Parisian hospital, rolling a cart full of lead bricks. In a radiology treatment room, she positioned the bricks around a device that she placed in the crosshairs of an electron-shooting linear a
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NASA finds that the earth has a new “mini moon”
The quasi-satellite technically orbits around the sun but dances around the earth in the process.
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Why do we really need space travel?
To paraphrase Einstein 'Passion without science is blind, and science without passion is lame'. The case for human expansion into the cosmos is ...
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The best houseplants to clean the air in your home, as recommended by NASA
asy to care for, resilient, and a quick way to inject some nature into your living room - no wonder houseplants have recently made a comeback. But did you know they also clean the air in your home?
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Exactly the right words, exactly the right way: Reagan’s amazing Challenger disaster speech - The Washington Post
How the Great Communicator teamed with Peggy Noonan to soothe a shocked and grieving nation.
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In 73 seconds, everything changed for Challenger
Challenger launched 30 years ago. NASA’s worst launch disaster continues to be felt in the space program and classrooms.
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Inside NASA’s Plan To Radically Redesign How We Fly
A new wave of aircraft design is emergingand NASA is helping.
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Watch the History of the Apollo Program
LThe Internet Archive has a trove of documentaries about NASA's Apollo Program, produced by NASA in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The blog Silver in a Haystack is dedicated to finding this kind of thing—great, free films available online from the Archive. A year ago, the blog highlighted this 12-part series of Apollo documentaries (including download links to those available online). The author of Silver in a Haystack wrote:
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2016: The Year We Began Mining the Moon - The Daily Beast
Now that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has managed to land upright, the future of travel and commerce in outer space is bright.
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NASA Studies High Clouds, Saharan Dust from EPIC View | NASA
From a dusty atmosphere stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of Earth is yielding new insights about our changing planet.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly's 'UFO' photo generates extraterrestrial buzz | Fox News
The truth is out there … maybe. A photo tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly is generating plenty of extraterrestrial buzz.
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NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
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New Photos, Video of Nichelle Nichols' NASA/SOFIA Mission
Star Trek News - Nichelle Nichols continues to live long and prosper. NASA has just released new photos and video from the Star Trek legend's recent trip into the skies as part of the space agency's SOFIA mission.
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Over 8,400 images from NASA's Moon missions are now on Flickr in high resolution | The Verge
You've seen images from the Apollo missions before, but you've never seen anything like this. More than 8,400 images from NASA's Moon missions have been uploaded to Flickr at a resolution of 1800...
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Mars Shows Signs of Liquid Water
Trickles of salt water may flow freely along ravines on contemporary Mars despite the planet’s extreme aridity, deep cold and tenuous atmosphere, NASA-funded scientists announced Monday.
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The actual NASA technologies that Matt Damon will use in the space survival film “The Martian” - Quartz
Those who criticized Christopher Nolan's 2014 film Interstellar for being too unrealistic are in for a treat. In October, perhaps the most science-based science fiction space film ever will hit theaters: The Martian, based on the bestselling book of th
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Buzz Aldrin Had to File an Expense Report For His Trip to the Moon
Bureaucracy extends to space.
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New Horizons data hint at underground ocean
Pluto wears its heart on its sleeve, and that has scientists gleaning intriguing new facts about its geology and climate. Recent data from NASA's New Horizons probe—which passed within 7,800 miles of the surface on July 14—have revealed striking featu
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Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit by Smithsonian Institution — Kickstarter
Smithsonian Institution is raising funds for Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit on Kickstarter! A chance for citizens of Earth to conserve, digitize, and display Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit for explorers everywhere.
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Pluto is stunning in latest color close-up from Nasa
Close-up images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft are combined with color data to paint a new and surprising portrait of the dwarf planet, Nasa said
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Famed Physicist Shuts Down Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists In 1 Brilliant Tweet
Monday was the 46th anniversary of the first lunar landing, yet a small fringe still believes the whole thing was a hoax. According to the conspiracy theory, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on a soundstage
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Pluto: Nasa's New Horizons probe makes flyby nine years after leaving Earth!
Nasa’s probe makes history on Tuesday as the first spacecraft ever to reach distant dwarf planet - the last unexplored world in solar system
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The Apollo mission space patches were out of this world (sorry)
Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova wore the very first spacesuit patch in 1963 for the Vostok 6 mission. Fun fact: Her orange coverall hid the patch from public view. NASA continued the tradition in 1965 when Gordon Cooper, the command pilot on Gemini 5, designed one for the mission.
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NASA selects 4 astronauts to fly first commercial space expeditions | Fox News
NASA has selected four veteran astronauts to lead the way back into orbit from U.S. soil. On Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named the four who will fly on capsules built by private companies...
Politics | From the HuffPost
'Space Guy' Jeb Bush Would Increase Funding To NASA
WASHINGTON -- If elected president in 2016, Jeb Bush would propose an increase in funding to NASA. "I'm a space guy," Bush said in a Wednesday sit-down with the New Hampshire Union Leader
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Something 'scary' went wrong with NASA's probe to Pluto
Scientists have only 9 days to fix the problem.
Entertainment | Entertainment News!
Review: The Astronaut Wives Club can’t achieve any space-based puns · TV Review · The A.V. Club
There’s never been a better time on network TV for a 20th-century period drama about the secret history of a major historical moment. The behemoth of Mad Men has just cleared the floor and left an appetite (and a tolerance for the slow burn).
Science & Technology | Cosmic Research
Watch astronauts dock with the International Space Station
Sometimes reality can be just as stunning as the movies. That's certainly the case with this latest video from NASA. The space agency has released a video documenting the Russian Soyuz capsule as...
Science & Technology | Cosmic Research
Has NASA Really Created A Warp Drive?
Forget blowing bubbles, NASA may be on the path to discovering warp bubbles that will open up every corner of the universe for human exploration. We have broken the speed of sound, but now NASA scientists are tentatively announcing they may have broken t
Cars & Motorcycles | Cars
11 cars help astronaut's daughter deliver a message to him in space
A young girl delivered a touching message to her father, who is an astronaut at the International Space Station, using 11 cars and some open land.
Science & Technology | Science
40 years and counting: the team behind Voyager’s space odyssey | Science | The Guardian
In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 started their one-way journey across our galaxy, travelling a million miles a day. Jonathan Margolis meets the dedicated team keeping the craft moving
Science & Technology | Science & Space
24 Historic Photos That'll Make You Want To Be An Astronaut
Featuring Buzz Aldrin taking the first selfie in space. And also a lot of American flags.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Forgotten Apollo moon artifacts found in Neil Armstrong's closet - CNET
A hidden treasure trove of gear flown on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon sees the light of day after Neil Armstrong's widow shares the find with the Smithsonian.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
NASA Has Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken And It Will Shake Up Your Universe
Warning: You will feel tiny. Teensy. Minuscule. Non-existent.
Science & Technology | Science
So they might have found Beagle 2 on Mars … Er, remind me, what was it? | Science | The Guardian
The British explorer sent to the red planet 10 years ago went missing. Now it’s located, but it might not be a happy ending after all
Science & Technology | Science & Space
10 Everyday Technologies We Owe to NASA | Mental Floss
You probably haven't been launched into low-earth orbit or enjoyed a lunar stroll. But believe it or not, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration still plays a huge role in your daily life.
Entertainment | Star Trek News
Captain Kirk Returning To Space Aboard the Orion
Sci-fi and sci-fact will collide again tomorrow, when the Orion -- NASA'S next-generation spacecraft -- blasts into space for a test flight. The unmanned craft will carry into space with it sci-fi collectibles/memorabilia, much of it provided by celebrities, as well as historic artifacts...
Science & Technology | Science
Every Ship That Has Carried Humans Into Space, In One Chart
Space is big, humans are small, and spacecrafts, well, vary more in size than you might think. Redditor Heaney555 has compiled an a chart, to scale, of every rocket, spacecraft, and space station involved in human spaceflight. And man, Saturn V is huuuuuu
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
NASA Will Pay You $170 Per Day To Lie In Bed!
If you have the stamina to lay in bed for 70 days straight NASA will pay you $18,000 — no joke.
Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF
Comet scientist offers tearful apology after the Internet is offended by his shirt | WashingtonExaminer.com
One of the scientists responsible for successfully landing the Rossetta probe on a comet millions of miles away on Friday responded to outrage directed at a shirt he wore earlier this week during the televised landing. “I made a big mistake and I offend
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Astronauts: Spaceflight is 'hard, but worth it'
In the aftermath of last month's Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo test flight crash, which killed one pilot and injured another, many were left wondering if the pursuit of “space tourism” was worth the loss of human life.
Science & Technology | Science
Out Of This World: The Mysterious Mental Side Effects Of Traveling Into Space
The Virgin Galactic crash made the mechanical risks of space tourism clearer, but the psychological effects of space travel largely remain unknown.
