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The commercial race to space just got a little more crowded. Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic’s…
Apr 19
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Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, and NASA’s celebrating its birthday…
Sep 6 2014
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The International Space Station has a cannon that launches tiny CubeSat microsatellites into orbit. Most of the…
Aug 30 2014
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Jul 31 2014
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NASA just announced what the Mars 2020 rover will carry to the Martian surface, and one of them sounds like pure…
Apr 25 2014
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NASA's Orion spacecraft is this generation's moonshot: mankind's first-ever manned spacecraft built to go beyond the…
Apr 12 2014
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On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter outer space and orbit our planet. Tonight,…
Feb 1 2014
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NASA scientists are poring over their most detailed snapshots of our universe, searching for the hallmark shapes…
Apr 28 2012
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Progress 46, a Russian cargo spacecraft carrying about a ton of space waste, is schedule to splash down into the…
Apr 23 2012
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Spring is in the air. The weather is warm, almost troublingly so. Flowers are blooming. Babies are everywhere. It's…
May 5 2011
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John Glenn and Neil Armstrong are household names in the US. But on May 5th, we remember the less-talked-about Alan…
Mar 21 2011
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Ever since humanity has been able to launch projectiles into space to take nosey pictures that make us all feel…
Aug 19 2010
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Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft—known as Sputnik 5 in the…
Oct 13 2008
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On October 19, NASA will launch the IBEX, or Interstellar Boundary Explorer, into a 130 mile earth orbit to begin…
Sep 11 2008
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Here’s a clip from a cartoon I’ve never seen before: Dodo-The Kid From Outer Space. Produced in 1964 and originally…
Sep 9 2008
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Oh, don’t get your panties in a bunch—I think we all agree that Hanna-Barbera takes a distant third in the great…
Aug 11 2008
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Pardon me while I have a MARF (momentary age-related freakout): I saw Star Wars in the theater when it first came…
Jul 30 2008
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I love the visual and audio reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey in this early 1970s commercial for the new G.I. Joe…
Jul 29 2008
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Imagine the scene: it’s 1962 and the space race is all the rage. You, on the other hand, are a venerable…
Jul 27 2008
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When you listen to Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart talk about the US government's current approach to deflecting…