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Space & Missions
Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Spiders sent to space station still spin webs in weightlessness
Laser-powered chip could reach Alpha Centauri in 20 years, not 165,000
Researchers want to retrieve Apollo's trash to check if human microbes survived the Moon
Apollo 11's flag fell in moon dust and likely never stood again
SpaceX's million satellites could outnumber visible stars in night sky
China's orbital booster landed upright, then toppled after a post-landing fire
NASA funds hopping robot to leap through Saturn moon's geysers
NASA funds early test of fusion drive that could reach Mars in four months
Microscopic metal rods could warm Mars by 30 degrees, climate models suggest
Two independent discoveries point to Mars's lost northern ocean
