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NASA sets ambitious goals for latest mission to Mars
If all goes according to plan, the United States will land its most advanced rover ever on Mars on Thursday, nearly 300-million miles from where it lifted off last year. It is a daunting task, one that will set up…
WATCH: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to collect sample from asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx will touch down on asteroid Bennu, collect a sample of the dust and begin its journey back to Earth, where scientists will study it, hoping to learn secrets of the solar system's origin.
‘Mighty mice’ stay musclebound in space, showing promise for longterm space flight
Scientists who sent bulked-up, mutant "mighty mice" to the International Space Station say the animals held onto their muscle during the monthlong flight.
‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’: Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
A half-century later, Apollo 13 is still considered Mission Control’s finest hour.
SpaceX’s new crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, acing its second milestone in just over a day.
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, nearly five decades after the historic Apollo 11 Command Module brought man to the moon and back, the spacecraft is part of a new adventure in a four-stop traveling exhibition across America.
The Smithsonian Institution is prepping the 9,000-pound capsule used during Apollo 11 for a two-year road trip.
Confined spaces, low gravity and high concentrations of oxygen mean any unexpected fire on a space station could well be a death sentence, especially since fire extinguishers aren’t very effective away from Earth. So NASA scientists are trying to develop…
A record number of potential astronauts applied for NASA's space program, eclipsing a number that had been set nearly 40 years ago.
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