How NASA’s hot rod Pontiac helped design the space shuttle
Facing unprecedented heat during returns through the atmosphere, simplicity was the order of the day for the shuttle, as ...
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SpaceX, NASA to launch 1st mission to study aurora 'electrojets' in Earth's atmosphere
"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait for NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
Apollo, space shuttle astronauts become literal faces of moonbound payload
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.
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NASA's 'Stranded' Astronauts Say They Don't Feel Abandoned or 'Stuck'
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore told PBS they have everything they need -- even wet wipes. And Wilmore talks to his daughter ...
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A secretive U.S. spaceplane just snapped a stunning view of Earth
This is the seventh mission of the X-37B, which orbits 150 to 500 miles above Earth to explore reusable space vehicle ... At ...
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What we know: Secretive Space Force X-37B space plane sends back photo of Earth
According to Boeing, the X-37B has a body and landing operation similar to the Space Shuttle, however it is smaller, ...
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A NASA Scientist May Have Just Revolutionized Space Travel With a Rocket That Runs Without Fuel
A NASA engineer has made an extraordinary claim that could shake the foundations of physics as we know it. Dr. Charles Buhler ...
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How Trump Can Save NASA
No U.S. astronaut had been beyond low Earth orbit since the final Apollo mission ... to the station—and SpaceX did so for a small fraction of what NASA had spent on each space shuttle flight. NASA’s ...