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Mission Control 'members only': NASA flight directors don new jacket
The astronauts are now not the only group at NASA with a jacket of their own.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 13 Launched 55 Years Ago, Marking NASA’s Most Famous Rescue Mission
Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...
NASA and ESA want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here's what will happen to the samples once they get here
A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...
NASA chief nominee says he won’t allow Musk to influence space agency as sights set on Mars, moon
President Donald Trump's NASA administrator nominee, Jared Isaacman, testified before the Senate that SpaceX works for NASA, ...
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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 ...
Kevin Bacon reflects on ‘Apollo 13’ anniversary as NASA astronauts return to life on Earth: ‘I did feel for those people’
There must’ve been such a challenge for everybody involved,” he told Yahoo Entertainment. “I guess that’s part of what you ...
Astronomy on MSN5d
How Project Gemini changed spaceflight
These NASA missions were not only a steppingstone to the Moon, but influenced many aspects of the way humans still travel ...
NASA's Deep Space Network starts new dish, marks 60 years in Australia
Canberra joined the global network in 1965 and operates four radio antennas. Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as ...
A Gigantic New NASA Dish in Australia Is Set to Transform Space Communication
NASA’s Deep Space Network just marked 60 years of interstellar communication with a groundbreaking new antenna in Canberra.