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The Apollo 13 Curse: Reliving The Day When NASA's Moon Mission Nearly Ended In Catastrophe
The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...
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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.
Mission Mangal, Rocketry, Apollo 13: Films that soar through space, aircrafts, and rockets
Films about space, aircraft, and rockets have long fascinated audiences in both Hollywood and Bollywood. While Hollywood has led the way, Bollywood is now exploring these themes with unique cultural ...
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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 offers a $3 million prize to solve the recycling problem of human waste in space
NASA has initiated the LunaRecycle Challenge. It provides a $3 million prize for converting lunar waste to useful resources.
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Keeping up in the second Space Race takes diligence
The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...
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 ...
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Star Trek’s popularity influenced NASA and this is how it inspired future astronauts
Since its inception in 1966, Star Trek has inspired astronauts, scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts who believed in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of space exploration.
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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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 ...
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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 ...