NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars.
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Feb 24, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers with members from several institutions in the U.S., Korea, and the U.K. has found evidence of random radiation clouds in the Earth's atmosphere at elevations used by aircraft. In their ...
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, but for a solid hour of that journey, NASA feared he was about to die in a blazing fireball.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2016
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Astronaut Jeffrey Williams has a new record for NASA under his space belt.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2016
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SpaceX is shooting for Mars.
Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2016
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Picture Earth at the center of a frame. The planet looks unassuming, a fleck, its blue-and-white marbling stark against a black interstellar backdrop. Yet the image likely evokes some reaction.
Space Exploration
Apr 19, 2016
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When astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth on March 1, half of NASA's first-of-its-kind study of twin astronauts and long duration space flight, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and elsewhere ...
Space Exploration
Mar 1, 2016
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Two Americans aboard the International Space Station are gearing up for a spacewalk early next week to free a stalled rail car.
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2015
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Flashing some interplanetary gold bling and sipping "space water" might sound far-fetched, but both could soon be reality, thanks to a new US law that legalizes cosmic mining.
Space Exploration
Dec 8, 2015
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Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink—distilled spirits.
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2015
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