For the generations of people that grew up watching shuttle launches on television or even in person, there’s little that's…
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Ever wonder what the northern lights look like from space? Thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit, you can see for…
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Like countless other children around the world, Jerry Firlan was starstruck on December 24, 1968. It was not because he…
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The big difference between their space-station feast and one on Earth? All the food was in dehydrated pouches until ready…
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NASA Artemis astronauts will have a lot of responsibilities once they arrive on the moon. The team will need to…
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NASA will test a state-of-the-art trash compactor aboard the International Space Station—and yes, it resembles a certain Pixar character tasked…
Read More »Samples from asteroid Ryugu JAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet made from bacteria reared on ground-up asteroids,…
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Read More »SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew…
Read More »NASA astronaut Nick Hague, left, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are pictured as they leave the Operations and Checkout Building…
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