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Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth
The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...
Colorado teen designs spacesuit prototypes after joining NASA's simulated Mars mission
A senior at New Vista High School spent her final year of high school redesigning spacesuits as part of a capstone project, devoting more than 200 hours to creating prototype designs to improve ...
NASA's Dragonfly passes key test. A look at its upcoming mission to Saturn's moon
NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...
Skydance Pays $2 Million+ For Sci-Fi Short Story ‘Drift:’ Andy Muschietti To Direct Space Mission Hostage Movie After Wild Auction
EXCLUSIVE: Skydance won a weekend auction for Drift, an unpublished short story by Ben Queen & Jason Shuman that has It!
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Senators Cornyn, Cruz push to relocate Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston
A new bill, the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, aims to relocate the retired Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian ...
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'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'
NASA has excised former Space Shuttle manager Wayne Hale's blog from its website in a reminder that nothing is forever. Hale began his blog in 2008, as the Space Shuttle program was winding down. The ...
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Shenzhou 20 Mission astronauts dock with Tiangong space station. Here’s what happened
Hubble was launched by NASA on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The telescope faced an early issue with its primary mirror, which was corrected by astronauts in 1993. Hubble ...
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Reusable rockets are here, so why is NASA paying more to launch stuff to space?
Government officials realized in the 1980s that NASA's Space Shuttle would be more expensive to fly than anticipated. After the Challenger accident in 1986, NASA launched most of its satellites ...
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Katy Perry Claps Back Against Blue Origin Space Flight Backlash
When he was booked to go, however, Kardashian—who recalled seeing her parents cry in 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded—admitted that she was initially freaked out. “Jeff Bezos ...
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See how the Hubble Space Telescope is still revolutionizing astronomy
Hubble was launched into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990 and shepherded into low Earth orbit by astronauts. It’s been there ever since, at an altitude of roughly 515 kilometers ...
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Here are 10 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope after 35 years in space
The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space shuttle Discovery. Nicknamed “the People’s Telescope,” Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of celestial objects since it ...
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Could astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope again?
But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...