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Last week, ISS commander Chris Hadfield unveiled one last surprise in his bag of social media memes — a cover version of David Bowie’s classic astronaut song, “Space Oddity.”
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SpaceX’s Dragon made its third trip to the ISS this month. The entire process of grabbing the cargo capsule was tweeted, in words and photos, by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
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Elon Musk debuted the Grasshopper — a new reusable, self-landing rocket — to a crowd at the SXSW festival. The test launch was a critical step in making commercial launches economical.
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Cassini’s mission is at Saturn, but occasionally — across the vastness of interplanetary space — the spacecraft captures a glimpse of other worlds. In this case, our sister planet, Venus.
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Dennis Tito — the world’s first space tourist — has announced a mission to Mars. Scheduled for early 2018, it will take two people within 100 miles of the red planet and return them to Earth.
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Mercury looks like our Moon — gray and lifeless. But scientists have a new method to understand this small world — revealing a complex topology imperceptible to the naked eye.
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So far, most exoplanets are gas giants, similar to Jupiter in size. Of course, bigger planets are easier to find than smaller ones. There may be Earth-size planets that are yet undetectable.
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NASA engineers are creating a Deep Space Habitat module. It’s not meant to be functional, but it will provide a glimpse into what the next generation of space travel may look like.
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Astronomers working in Chile just released a magnificent image of the Milky Way galaxy that displays over 84 million stars — 10 times more than previously seen.
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If life exists at Saturn, researchers with a project called TALISE will find it. They intends to plop down a ‘space boat’ smack in the middle of Ligeia Mara, the largest lake on Titan.
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Last Friday the Sun belched. A coronal mass ejection is a common occurrence and releases a tremendous amount of EM radiation. And, sometimes, it’s aimed straight at us.
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An exciting first for a NASA robotic mission! The Curiosity rover shot video of its landing on Mars. From the heatshield dropping off to the dust stirred up by the landing, we see it all!
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