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The Mars orbiter images appear to suggest that the Red Planet has succumbed to an infestation of creepy crawlies, but what’s really ...
How NASA fixed a problem on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles away
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Working from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers have solved a computer problem aboard Voyager 1, allowing the probe to ...
‘Astrobiodefense:’ Thinktank calls for defending Earth from space bugs
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An artist’s depiction of a Mars sample-return mission. NASA is set to offer its response to that hard-hitting report issued last September ...
NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster it was never quite the same
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Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the ...
Royal Astronomer Calls Elon Musk’s Mars Plan A ‘Dangerous Illusion’
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Space X CEO and certified brain genius Elon Musk has claimed in the past that he aims to load a million people ...
We asked over 50 women space leaders for words of inspiration. Here’s what they told us
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We wouldn’t be where we are today without the leaders of the past — so, to build our future, perhaps we should ...
Texas Eclipse Festival offers a ‘choose your own adventure experience’ for April total solar eclipse
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On April 8, 2024, a range of cities from Texas through Ohio and up to Maine will be in the direct path ...
SpaceX Starship rocket launches third test flight
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Elon Musk’s company launched Starship at about 9:25 a.m. ET from its Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas. The rocket has now ...
SpaceX cleared to attempt third Starship launch Thursday
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SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is prepared for a third launch from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad ...
NASA shuts down Maxar-led OSAM-1 satellite refueling project
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NASA cited “continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a broader community evolution away from refueling unprepared spacecraft, which has led to ...
