Earlier this year, Hilary Swank got caught up in The Hunt. But over at Netflix, she’ll be leaving Earth behind in the new space drama series Away, which finds her as an astronaut on a high stakes mission to Mars. Not only does she have to deal...
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An artistic rendering of astronauts on the Moon, mining resources. | Image: NASA
House appropriators don’t intend to substantially increase NASA’s budget, potentially jeopardizing the agency’s plans of sending astronauts back to the Moon by...
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After years of trying, a group has produced the smell of outer space in a perfume.Astronauts have described the smell of space as similar to "ozone," "gunpowder," and "fried steak."Exactly what causes the scent is still debated. Have you ever watched
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Doug Hurley's photos show everything from cloud art to sandstorms.
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One thing most of us Earthlings may not realize is that outer space smells. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, so can you. Over a decade ago, NASA chemists developed a scent that mimics the “smell of space” in order to give astronauts a whiff of...
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Astronauts performed their second spacewalk in under a week Wednesday to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station.
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Which way the wind blows in space has new importance for astronaut safety at the moon. Using data from several NASA missions, scientists discovered that wind created by high-speed particles from the sun can cause the tail of Earth's protective...
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Virgin Galactic is continuing to test its SpaceShipTwo system for rocketing passengers to the edge of space in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.
But the company, which is now partnering with NASA to train private astronauts, is also exploring a...
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Part of NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy's spacesuit breaks off and floats away into space.
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NASA has announced that starting next year, SpaceX will be able to reuse its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 boosters to send astronauts to the ISS.
The post NASA Changes its Mind. It Will be Using Previously Flown Crew Dragons and Falcon 9...
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NASA is rushing to return astronauts to the moon's surface in 2024 with a program called Artemis.
A spaceship and rocket system is already being built to fly crews to the moon. However, NASA started a competition between private companies to make...
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The successful launch of Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon put America back in the space race for the first time in nine years. And right now, the two American astronauts who rode that rocket are orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.
But...
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NASA’s Project Artemis will see the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. It’s an ambitious timeline that requires a huge amount of preparation, and that includes quite a few not-so kickass elements of space travel. Such as toilets....
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Shareholders of Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE) had a good day on Monday, when reports that NASA had contracted with the company to recruit and train "private astronauts," before NASA flies them to the International Space Station (ISS), helped...
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NASA is going to chart a path for its astronauts and other personnel to take part in future commercial suborbital spaceflight missions, letting the agency conduct experiments and do research aboard suborbital human spacecraft – including,...
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This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that took place in November 2019.
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They will be embarking on the first spacewalk since January
Shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE) jumped more than 15% on Monday after the aerospace company said it would train people to become astronauts and travel to the International Space Station (ISS). Virgin Galactic will work with NASA's...
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Ring of Fire Expedition: International Space Station - After @AstroKDS Astronaut Kathy Sullivan's historic dive to Challenger Deep, DSSV Pressure Drop received a very special call from above (aboard the ISS - @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug #NASA...
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When ISS astronauts call Earth, they refer to it as "space to ground." For a call they made to Kathy Sullivan, the first astronaut to dive to the deepest point on Earth, a different term was merited.
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