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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Moonquakes could reveal hidden ice hundreds of metres beneath lunar surface
China's lunar water mission scrubbed, next launch window delayed to 2027
China's lunar hopper will search for ancient ice in the Moon's darkest crater
Falcon 9 booster launches 36 times in five years, nearing Space Shuttle's career total
U.S. aims for 1,000 space launches annually by 2030, triple current pace
Artemis rocket crawled four miles in 12 hours, then Orion screamed back at 25,000 mph
Solar winds tear Mars's atmosphere into space in violent bursts
NASA's Perseverance rover extracted oxygen from Mars for the first time
Spacecraft can approach light speed but never reach it, physics says
US Army radio crew bounced signal off Moon in 1946, eleven years before Sputnik
