An artist's concept of NASA astronauts returning to the surface of the moon via its Artemis program.
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A new NASA study explores the possibility of building a Wi-Fi network on the moon.
It compared a lunar surface area with an area around...
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The crew for China's mission includes the first woman to visit its space station.
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The astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station had to initiate emergency protocols after the spacecraft tilted and turned by 57 degrees on Friday. All is well now, but the Roscosmos and NASA ground teams had to spring to action...
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China on Saturday sent three astronauts to its space station for a record-setting six-month stay as the country moves toward completing the new orbiting outpost
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Astronauts who have seen earth from space describe a sense of awe, unity with the rest of humanity, and an appreciation for the fragility of our planet -- basically, a psychedelic experience. Experts call this the "overview effect," and clearly...
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China is preparing to send three astronauts to live on its space station for six months—a new milestone for a program that has advanced rapidly in recent years.
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Uh oh. #WIlliamShatner #BlueOrigin #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/zdns7f2gz7— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 12, 2021
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Jeff Bezos pins astronaut wings on William Shatner after the "Star Trek" star's spaceflight on October 13, 2021.
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William Shatner flew to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on Wednesday.
Upon...
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Analog astronauts from a European and Israeli team walk in spacesuits during a training mission at the Ramon Crater in Israel's southern Negev desert on October 10, 2021.
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In Israel, six analog astronauts are living...
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In 2011, NASA announced a bold new program to leverage partnerships between the government and the commercial space sector to restore domestic launch capability. As part of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to...
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A sprite captured from the ISS.
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Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut on the ISS, photographed a flash of red light in the upper atmosphere.
The phenomenon, called a sprite, can be seen above a thunderstorm.
The picture is a "very...
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AMADEE-20 may not be on Mars but it sure looks a lot like it, and that’s just why the new mock-habitat mission could be so important. Kicking off today, the Austrian Space Forum’s big Mars base experiment will see six analog astronauts...
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Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, will be memorialized on a 2022 quarter. | US Mint
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space, will be featured on one of the first five coins in the US Mint’s American...
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took a photograph on October 8 from the International Space Station that captured something exceedingly rare. The photo seen below clearly shows a bright blue-white luminous event on the horizon of the Earth. Pesquet took...
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Dr. Sian Proctor, on the far right, told National Geographic she felt sick during the first part of her mission.
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Dr. Sian Proctor, a SpaceX astronaut, told National Geographic she felt sick for two days in space.
Proctor...
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3D visual artist Don Mupasi created a gorgeously mesmerizing 4K ultra HD video of an astronaut literally floating in vividly colorful space. The video is accompanied by an ethereal soundtrack that plays over the course of eight hours. Mupasi stated...
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All change on 2022 ride to the ISS NASA has shown its tremendous confidence in Boeing's Starliner by shifting astronauts scheduled to launch aboard the calamity capsule to SpaceX's Crew Dragon.…
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In an out of this world study, space archaeologists are reconstructing life on the International Space Station (ISS) over the past two decades, to better understand space culture and get an inside look at how astronauts interact with their tools and...
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is suited, booted and ready for his Cosmic Kiss mission. As a member of US Commercial Crew-3 he will be launched to the International Space Station in a Crew Dragon spacecraft in around one month's time for his first...
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The mission focused on sending new supplies to astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) and returning samples from scientific experiments carried out there.
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