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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and…
The Apollo astronauts who carried lunar dust back into the cabin kept making the same…
Breathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars
Sea Launch died in 2014 because the economics didn't work
In September 2022 a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a harmless asteroid 11…
In 1977, NASA mounted a gold-plated record on each Voyager probe carrying greetings in…
Iceye, a Finnish company that builds radar satellites that see through clouds and…
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…
Tom Mueller spent nearly two decades building the Merlin and Draco engines that helped…
