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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.


Woman who bought Apollo 11 moon dust bag for $995 sold it for $1.8 million

Rare garnet discovered in Martian meteorite puzzles scientists about its origins

Mars warming plan could trigger extreme day-night temperature swings

Astronaut's famous moon golf shots were far shorter than his joke suggested

Astronaut dropped hammer and feather on the Moon to prove Galileo right

Schoolboys with a radio receiver exposed the Soviet Union's secret space launch site

Mars's deep interior is far hotter beneath the south than the north

US hydrogen bomb test knocked out power and satellites 900 miles away

Army's 5 billion dollar camouflage backfired because of how human eyes see color

Opportunity’s panels were cleaned by wind for years before it photographed a dust devil
