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Texas Republicans Want to Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From the Smithsonian
U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a new bill on Thursday called the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which ...
Rocket Report: Daytona rocket delayed again; Bahamas tells SpaceX to hold up
Falcon 9 sets reuse record. SpaceX notched another new rocket reuse record with its midnight Starlink flight on Sunday night ...
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That's no space station, it's a student-led drone show: Space photo of the day
The Space Foundation's 40th Space Symposium got underway with space history lighting up the night sky over Colorado Springs.
Why doomed space shuttle exploded 73 seconds into flight as Challenger crew’s chilling final words revealed
But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...
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Purdue professor reflects on NASA Challenger disaster, shares role in space shuttle's creation
Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...
History Today: How Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...
ULA scrubs attempt for 1st launch of year on landmark Amazon satellite mission
United Launch Alliance has not had a rocket lift off since last fall, but its first one of 2025 is set to open the gates for ...
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From fruit picker to flight engineer, former NASA astronaut shares story of education, determination
"We landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a few miles away from where I picked strawberries as a kid," Hernandez ...
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Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women ...
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SpaceX's Crew 11 to space station named: 2 from NASA, plus Russia, Japan
March 28 (UPI) --NASA on Friday announced the four crew members of Crew-11 who will be part of Space X's next ... United Launch Alliance on Wednesday night scrubbed the night launch of the first ...