SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of its first crew capsule during testing.
Over the weekend, the company's recently flown Dragon crew capsule was engulfed in...
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Twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly participated in a groundbreaking NASA study to uncover the long-term effects of space on the human body.
Over nearly a year, the twins took the same medical tests — one while aboard the International Space...
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to former astronaut Ed Lu, who co-founded a planetary defense nonprofit, about a meteor that exploded with the energy of 10 atomic bombs over the Bering Sea.
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Cobb didn't make it to space but helped forge a path for women in space programs.
Four years after he orbited the moon alone during humanity's first lunar landing mission, Michael Collins brought everyone back on Earth along for the ride.
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NASA's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, has died.
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As if being an astronaut aboard the International Space Station weren’t cool enough, NASA’s Christina Koch will become the agency’s second explorer to spend nearly a year inside the orbiting laboratory. NASA this […]
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A female astronaut is due to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the U.S. space agency said Wednesday, the same astronaut who was to have been in the first all-female spacewalk scrapped over lack of a right-sized...
Astronaut Christina Koch will soon break the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman, NASA announced Wednesday.
Koch will beat out former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who was in space for 288 days two years ago. Koch, who arrived at the...
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Wanting to better understand how space affects astronauts, the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent a group of mice to the International Space Station for 37 days.
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Christina Koch has a(n out-of-this) world record in her future.
Brothers compete. So in 2016, when astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after spending a year in space, it must have really annoyed his identical twin brother — retired astronaut Mark Kelly — that Scott was two inches taller than when he...
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A Mars base simulator sits in the middle of nowhere in China's Gobi desert, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers.
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NASA has sent mice on a dozen missions to the International Space Station since 2014, in a special habitat designed for microgravity. In their own way, the rodent astronauts are contributing to humanity’s quest to explore Mars.
Before NASA sends...
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No astronaut has set foot on the lunar South Pole, but NASA hopes to change that by 2024.
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Former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott has died at his home in Huntsville, Alabama.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US astronaut Christina Cook will spend almost a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and will set a new women's record for the longest time in space, a rocket and space industry source told Sputnik on Tuesday.
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Fifty years after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, the spacecraft that carried the first astronauts to land on the moon has again returned to the United States' west coast.
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The exhaustive study seeks to reassure astronauts, scientists and researchers of the risks of extended spaceflight.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United Arab Emirates’ Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) said that Hazzaa AlMansoori will be the country’s first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Russian Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft.
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