According to Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, establishing a permanent presence beyond Earth is the first step humans will take towards the "divergence into a new species". Plans to visit and even colonise Mars are no longer ...
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2014
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Space, the saying goes, is hard. And the farther humans go, the harder it can get.
Space Exploration
May 31, 2024
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Throughout the annals of American space exploration, a select few spacecraft have had the distinction of carrying human beings beyond Earth.
Space Exploration
May 4, 2024
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NASA has selected four veteran astronauts to lead the way back into orbit from U.S. soil.
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2015
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We climbed out over the Mediterranean after take-off from Barcelona, veered off the Spanish coast, and pointed the nose northeast. Soon we'd be talking to controllers in Marseille and make landfall near Toulon. From there ...
Other
Mar 25, 2015
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Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space.
Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2022
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A Japanese whaling fleet returned to port Friday after an annual Antarctic hunt that killed more than 300 of the mammals as Tokyo pursues the programme in defiance of global criticism.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2017
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Kennedy Space Center on May 28 as their much-delayed flight to the International Space Station aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner looks like it may finally happen ...
Space Exploration
May 30, 2024
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Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six.
Space Exploration
May 7, 2009
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NASA is weighing a Moscow proposal to cut the number of Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station from three to two, particularly its potential risk to the crew, an official said Monday.
Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2016
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