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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
In 1972, Apollo 17 carried the only scientist to walk on the Moon into Taurus-Littrow…
In June 2020, auditors discovered that EUR 1.9 billion supposedly held in two…
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars
In 2026, Airi Toida and Yuichiro Ezoe modeled a sub-10-kilogram X-ray telescope that…
NASA's plan to put a nuclear reactor on a Mars-bound spacecraft by 2028 sounds…
Carl Sagan and four colleagues published the 1983 'TTAPS' paper that introduced the…
It is impossible to burp in space, because in microgravity the human stomach cannot…
Fossils found in Scotland just pushed back the origin of land-walking animals by 14…
In 1965, a 30-year-old cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human to walk in…
The copper canisters Finland chose to seal its nuclear waste are expected by some…
