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SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission, piloted by NH resident
A daredevil billionaire rocketed back into orbit Tuesday, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk and venture farther than anyone since NASA’s Apollo moonshots. Unlike his previous chartered flight, tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman shared the cost with SpaceX this time around, which included developing and testing brand new spacesuits to see how they’ll hold up in the harsh vacuum. The Polaris Dawn is piloted by...
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Needham astronaut on Starliner capsule as it blasts off for Space Station
Two astronauts blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule on Wednesday, headed to the International Space Station after years of stumbles and delays. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner with a crew on board — veteran NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who will check out the spacecraft during the test drive and a weeklong stay at the...
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SpaceX launches its giant new rocket but a pair of explosions ends the second test flight
SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight.
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NASA Astronaut Nicole Mann, 1st Native American Woman in Space, Awed by Mother Earth
The first Native American woman in space says she’s overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of Mother Earth. She’s also channeling “positive energy” as her five-month mission gets underway at the International Space Station, something she learned from her mother.
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$10 Billion Telescope Launched Into Space on Daring Quest to Behold 1st Stars
The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.
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Russian Test Blamed for Space Junk Threatening Space Station
Even a fleck of paint can do major damage when orbiting at 17,500 mph — something big, upon impact, could be catastrophic.
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Wally Funk, 82-Year-Old Aerospace Pioneer, Will Go to Space With Jeff Bezos
Wally Funk will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas alongside Bezos, flying in the capsule for the 10-minute hop as an “honored guest”
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Takes Flight, 1st for Another Planet
NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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Cheers! French Wine, Vines Headed Home After Year in Space
The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.
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Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Dies at 88
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88. Worden died in his sleep at a rehab center in Houston following treatment for an infection, said friend and colleague Tom Kallman. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth…
