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Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?
And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...
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In the 1980s, This Special Camera Helped Turn Astronauts Into Cinematographers to Shoot the First Imax Movie Ever Filmed in Space
It takes a lot to be an astronaut. Today, American astronauts typically need a master’s degree in a STEM field, two years of ...
Breaking the Gender Barrier May Be New for Space Tourism—But Not for NASA Missions
Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...
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'The Dream is [still] Alive': First IMAX film shot in space at 40 years
Four decades later, astronaut Marsha Ivins and cinematographer James Neihouse reveal stories from the making of the ...
The Story Behind the Most Terrifying Space Photo Ever Taken
For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...
After Blue Origin's New Shepard flight, the question arose: what makes one an 'astronaut?'
After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...
On His 70th Birthday, NASA's Oldest Astronaut Don Pettit Set To Return To Earth
Don Pettit, NASA's oldest astronaut, is set to return from space on April 19, his 70th birthday. Mr Pettit, currently aboard ...
Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—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 embark on a mission ...
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Space Shuttle
The push for printers in space came from the combined forces of NASA’s love for checklists and the need for astronauts in the ... the ability to print on the Shuttle, but when their fancy ...
Blue Origin rocket launch - as it happened: What Katy Perry sang in space and how all-female crew reacted to flight
For the first time since 1963, an all-female crew is being launched into space. The group, which includes singer Katy Perry ...
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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.