How NASA outsourcing the space program helped enrich Elon Musk
After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
Astronauts return aboard SpaceX Dragon after nine-month saga in space
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed down safely Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico after an ...
Butch and Suni just spent 286 days in space. Here’s where it ranks among longest stays
Freshly returned veteran astronauts are moving up in the NASA record books. How much they’re paid to do it may surprise you.
Russian cosmonaut who spent 14 months in space left scientists shocked after health was assessed
Roughly, he spent a total of 14 months and 17 days in space uninterrupted; a record to this day. It had meant to be 16 months ...
Former NASA administrator to deliver Ohio State's spring commencement address
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former NASA administrator, astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Major General Charles Frank Bolden Jr. will ...
Aleksei Navalny Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a ...
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China Is Gearing Up for “Dogfighting in Space”
America’s space-competition-related fears have always been geared towards Moscow. But now, with China rising and asserting ...
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Secrets of the Abandoned Soviet Buran Space Shuttles
Join us on an extraordinary journey into the deserts of western Kazakhstan as we uncover one of the Soviet Union's most ambitious projects—the abandoned Buran space shuttles. Hidden within the vast ...
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Who are the NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for 9 months?
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a ...
Blue Origin rocket engine gives a boost to Museum of Flight’s Simonyi Space Gallery
Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...
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How astronauts adjust when back on Earth after being in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth after spending more than nine months in orbit on ...