Space Travel
Space Travel
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When Soviet engineers landed Venera 13 on the surface of Venus in 1982, they expected the probe to survive maybe thirty minutes in the planet's lead-melting heat and crushing pressure — it survived 127 minutes and sent back the first color photographs ever taken from the surface of another planet
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In 1961, a young chimpanzee captured in Cameroon and trained at a New Mexico air force base became the first hominin to travel into space and return alive — and the program kept him publicly nameless throughout the mission, as if to avoid the grief of losing a named chimp on national television, only calling him Ham after he came home
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In April 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the spacecraft against the terminator of the Earth, the line where day met night on the planet they were trying to reach, timing a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch because their guidance computer had been shut down to save battery power for reentry
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China is sending an astronaut to its space station for a full year — a national record — as Beijing races toward a 2030 crewed moon landing, two years behind NASA's target
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The Artemis 2 astronauts came home from 252,756 miles away with the same line — "planet Earth, you are a crew" — and it's the kind of thing that sounds like a slogan until you hear who said it and why
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Station Hosts 11 Crewmates from Five Countries
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NASA program brings big benefits to Big Ten School
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NASA repairs issue with Voyager 1 space probe
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How Scientists are using the ISS to study Earth's climate
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A QandA on the Demo-2 mission
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NASA adds 5 more companies to bid for work on moon mission
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Astronauts will spend much of October outside the space station
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Not just for kids: a leap for seniors at Vegas tech show
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ESA celebrates Unispace+50
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