What Are the Best Ways for Astronauts to Explore an Asteroid?
ESA astronaut Tim Peake recently spent 12 days underwater with three other aquanauts to look at the best ways for astronauts to explore an asteroid. Behind…
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We Should Still Dream of the Stars
This video is an inspirational call-to-arms for anyone who’s ever looked to the stars and dreamed of a day when the sky was, in fact, not…
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SpaceX Completes Design Review of Crew-Rated Dragon Capsule
NASA partner Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed an important design review of the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft. The concept baseline review presented NASA…
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NASA Set to Host Future Female Explorers
Eighty-four female high school students from 29 states will plan a simulated mission to Mars and experience life as an engineer or scientist when NASA’s Johnson…
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Spacex Dragon Capsule Attached to ISS in a Spaceflight First
The International Space Station’s Expedition 31 crew grappled and attached SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to the space station Friday. This is the first time a commercial company…
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SpaceX Dragon Carries 15 Student Experiments to the ISS
The SpaceX Dragon capsule, which on Tuesday became the first commercially developed and built spacecraft to launch to the International Space Station, is carrying among its…
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Successful Launch for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Spacecraft
The second demonstration mission for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program is under way as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off Tuesday…
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Water Droplets Dance on the Space Station
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles by using everyday objects…
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Possible Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google, James Cameron, X-Prize Foundation and Others
Yes, you read the title of this correctly. Something big might be about to happen in terms of manned (or possibly robotic) space exploration, outside the…
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NASA Deputy Administrator Garver Talks About NASA’s Future
“Following are excerpts from remarks given by NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at the arrival of the space shuttle Discovery at Dulles International Airport on Tuesday,…
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