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Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts in mock cockpit

Space

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts that averted catastrophe as the Apollo 11 crew were about to land

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

Space

7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

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Astronaut on Moon

Space

Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Radio telescope

Space

Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

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Has anyone ever died in space?

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Has anyone ever died in space?

Astronaut

Health

Astronauts don't seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

People in Science

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The Milky Way

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The Milky Way

Life on Mars

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Life on Mars

Space Shuttle Columbia blasts off on the first space shuttle mission STS-1

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The space shuttle

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Apollo 13

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How many people have walked on the moon?

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Apollo 11 moon landing

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The first space walk

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