Solar sails, much like anti-matter and ion engines appear at first glance to only exist in science fiction. Many technologies from science fiction however, become science fact.
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NASA engineers have successfully test fired the first flight engine destined to power the agency's mammoth new SLS rocket that will launch American astronauts back to the moon and deep space for the first time in nearly five ...
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Mar 14, 2016
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Sending heavier vehicles and, eventually, humans to Mars requires first testing new technologies to see if they actually work.
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Aug 9, 2014
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NASA successfully carried out a key static test of its troubled Space Launch System rocket on Thursday, a win for the agency as it prepares to return to the Moon.
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Mar 18, 2021
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Through Artemis, NASA plans to explore more of the moon than ever before with human and robotic missions on the lunar surface. Because future landers will be larger and equipped with more powerful engines than the Apollo ...
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Nov 15, 2023
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NASA engineers are still trying to fix an International Space Station cooling problem and have not yet decided whether spacewalks will be necessary, the US space agency said Monday.
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Dec 16, 2013
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NASA honored one of its most famous astronauts Monday by renaming a historic building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) -- This mosaic image shows part of the left side of NASA's Curiosity rover and two blast marks from the descent stage's rocket engines.
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2012
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NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years –- including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space.
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Apr 3, 2023
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Several blockbuster movies, television shows and commercials have depicted the discovery of an asteroid heading towards Earth and usually, somehow, impending doom is averted. But how do the discoveries of Near Earth Objects ...
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