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Lunar loo: Did Apollo astronauts' 96 bags of poop and urine seed the Moon with life?
During the six Apollo missions that landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972, astronauts left behin…
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will take off on Friday. Here’s what the crew is going to be wearing
The four-member crew of non-professional astronauts will be wearing newly designed SpaceX extravehi…
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Polaris Dawn spacewalk: Watch live as SpaceX's commercial astronauts attempt mission's historic EVA
The Polaris Dawn mission attempts a historic spacewalk today. Watch live as SpaceX's commercial ast…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Boeing's long-delayed Starliner finally takes off with astronauts on board
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft finally took off on its crewed mission on Wednesday after being plagu…
Jessica Orwig,Paul Squire
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Lunar farming: Artemis III astronauts will cultivate plants on the Moon’s surface for the very first time!
Embarking on a celestial gardening expedition of sorts, NASA has set its sights on an ambitious pro…
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China says it will send astronauts to the moon by 2030
No humans have set foot on the moon since the last NASA Apollo mission more than 50 years ago. Now …
Tim Levin
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Luxury fashion house Prada will be designing NASA's new spacesuits so astronauts can fly in style
Prada engineers will assist Axiom Space's team with developing design features for the spacesuits …
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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Astronaut Michael Collins, who circled the moon during the Apollo 11 landing, has died at age 90
Collins piloted the spaceship that circled the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Don't let NASA fool you: The next astronauts on the moon will not be wearing black spacesuits
NASA and Axiom revealed a black prototype of a new spacesuit for the first moon missions since 1972…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in 3 key ways
When three civilians entered space yesterday with Virgin Galactic, they felt some of the same thing…
Maiya Focht
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Photos and videos show why only 360 people have become NASA astronauts
For two years, NASA trains its astronauts, including have them work underwater and learn desert sur…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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3 Apollo astronauts weigh in on Trump's push to land NASA astronauts on the moon in 5 years
Schmitt thinks NASA will need even more funding than it's asking for today and should plan for that…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has flown 24 white American men to the moon. Now it's finally sending a woman, a Black astronaut, and a Canadian.
NASA's new Artemis program is launching the first astronauts to the moon in 50+ years: Christina Ko…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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There was no toilet on the Apollo moon missions - here's how the astronauts went to the bathroom
NASA engineers were so busy figuring out how to get astronauts to and from the moon that they didn'…
Hilary Brueck
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This is why NASA took 50 years to start studying the last few pieces of Moon rocks collected by the Apollo mission
The Apollo mission (1968-72) to the Moon brought 2,196 rock samples to the Earth nearly 50 years ag…
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See how NASA's new lunar mega-rocket sizes up to past and future astronaut launch systems
NASA's Space Launch System is built to return astronauts to the moon. Photos and one chart show how…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Inside Blue Origin's Astronaut Village where space tourists sleep in Airstream trailers and hang out around a firepit: 'It's not a five-star hotel.'
Blue Origin's Astronaut Village has a restaurant, bar, and firepit where passengers and staff can "…
Kate Duffy
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NASA just made sure its astronauts will be safe if the 2024 Artemis mission to the Moon fails
And, if you plan to push humans into space aboard a rocket, it’s best to have a fail safe in pla…
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Photos from NASA's Artemis mission zipping past the moon reveal a view no astronaut has seen firsthand in 50 years
No humans have flown past the moon since the Apollo missions. But if Artemis I succeeds, NASA plans…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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It's been 50 years since the last moonwalk. NASA astronauts explain why it took so long.
NASA's new Space Launch System had some technical issues, but astronauts say the real reason the US…