Liftoff of Apollo 8, December 21, 1968. Borman, Lovell Jr., and Anders performed 10 orbits of the Moon during the week-long mission.
The next wearable health metric you'll obsess over may be your brain's actual level of focus.
The SMILE mission will spend three years studying how our planet's magnetosphere interacts with solar weather.
The tool isn't a one-step solution to the complex task of mission planning, but it will be a useful in evaluating the best trajectory for each mission, the researchers say.
The tiny chip could allow spacecraft to make decisions on their own without human input.
Space archeologists suggest Venus does a better job at preserving artifacts than previously believed.
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