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SpaceX and NASA will broadcast live radio chatter from the astronauts on...
SpaceX is set to send two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, into orbit at 4:33 p.m. ET on Wednesday.It will be Elon Musk's company's first crewed launch and the first time American...
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SpaceX can't wait even 1 second for bad weather to pass for a rocket launch...
SpaceX's historic first launch of NASA astronauts was scrubbed on Wednesday due to poor weather, and rescheduled for Saturday.The weather might have cleared up in just 10 to 20 minutes, but the Falcon...
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SpaceX's big launch aims to send NASA astronauts to the International Space...
SpaceX is preparing to launch two NASA astronauts on its Crew Dragon spaceship for the first time.The launch was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon but delayed until Saturday due to bad weather. The two...
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NASA astronauts wear white suits, since white is the color that reflects the most sunlight in space, and protects them from cancer-causing solar radiation.Other space agencies, like in Russia and...
View ArticleWhy NASA waited nearly a decade to send astronauts into space from the US
NASA and SpaceX launched astronauts into space from American soil for the first time in almost 10 years today. Since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, NASA has relied on the Russian space...
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Watch SpaceX, NASA, and 2 astronauts perform an historic private spaceship...
SpaceX on Saturday launched it's first crewed mission into space with the flight of NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken.The astronauts' Crew Dragon spaceship, which they named Endeavour once in...
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SpaceX's new 'Endeavour' spaceship just made history by docking to the...
SpaceX on Saturday launched its first humans into space: veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.On Sunday morning, the astronauts caught up to the International Space Station inside their...
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Earth's magnetic field first formed thanks to a magma ocean, research shows....
Our planet's magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere from deadly solar winds, has been in place for at least 3.4 billion years.For the last 1 billion years, a swirling layer of liquid metal has...
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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley just gave SpaceX's new spacesuits...
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley wore new SpaceX spacesuits when they launched toward the International Space Station on Saturday. It was the company's first time launching people and the...
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'I doubted us': Elon Musk says it took 100,000 people to launch 2 NASA...
SpaceX on Saturday launched two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley— its first-ever human passengers — into orbit.The astronauts on Sunday docked to the football-field-sized International...
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Astronauts often describe a powerful 'overview effect' when gazing at Earth....
People who fly to space and gaze back at Earth often say they feel a powerful "overview effect."NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, whom SpaceX just launched into orbit on the rocket company's first crewed...
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The Trump campaign removed a 'make space great again' video ad after former...
A video President Donald Trump's presidential campaign called "make space great again" was removed from YouTube on Thursday. The video featured images from the historic NASA and SpaceX launch last...
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Elon Musk says the biggest challenge of SpaceX's Starlink internet project is...
SpaceX launched 60 more of its Starlink high-speed-internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday, bringing its total fleet to about 480 spacecraft.Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating...
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Elon Musk reportedly tells SpaceX's 7,000 employees in email to shift their...
Elon Musk told his employees in an internal email that SpaceX would focus on Starship as its primary goal, according to CNBC.The most recent Starship test caused a prototype to explode a day before...
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Virgin Galactic is building and testing spaceships during the coronavirus...
Virgin Galactic in early May performed a gliding test flight of its "Unity" spaceship over New Mexico for the first time, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.George Whitesides, the company's CEO,...
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are...
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are strikingly similar to the Earth and the sun.The planet is less than double the size of Earth. The star it orbits is...
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Astronauts on the space station are helping to forge a bizarre 5th state of...
Researchers created a fifth state of matter in 1995, the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), by cooling atoms to temperatures lower than in interstellar space.BECs don't exist naturally and have only...
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The US didn't send the first Black person into space — the Soviet Union did...
NASA did not launch the first Black person into space — the Soviet Union beat the US space agency by three years.Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban of African descent, launched to space with a Soviet...
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NASA astronaut Leland Melvin told Bill Nye that a police officer came close...
Leland Melvin — a Black astronaut, engineer, and NFL football player — recently hosted NASA TV's coverage of the first crewed rocket launch by SpaceX on May 30.Before the launch, Melvin juxtaposed the...
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Our galaxy could have at least 36 intelligent alien civilizations,...
The Milky Way should have at least 36 intelligent alien civilizations active right now, according to a new study.There could be hundreds of extraterrestrial civilizations active in the galaxy at this...
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