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International Space Station

Human cannonball astronaut: My rocket is my clothes

Space

Human cannonball astronaut: My rocket is my clothes

It sounds dangerous, even mad, but Peter Madsen is planning to achieve cosmic immersion by riding the smallest crewed rocket ever to reach space

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How to survive the long haul in space

Space

How to survive the long haul in space

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Life

Hayabusa 2 will seek the origins of life in space

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Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Space

Start-up enterprise: Launching the new space race

Features

NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

Space

NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

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NASA seeks secrets of commercial moon landers

Space

NASA seeks secrets of commercial moon landers

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Space

Tilting solar sails will ease geostationary congestion

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Giant balloons could clear out space junk

Space

Giant balloons could clear out space junk

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What's the best way to eject astronauts during lift-off?

Space

What's the best way to eject astronauts during lift-off?

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Space

Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer

Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has used liquid-crystal layers to steer using only the pressure of sunlight – a first for solar sails

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Space

Senate to NASA: Build massive rocket now!

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Space

NASA seeks rover that goes all night

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Space

Astronaut for hire: Space tourism will help science

Opinion

Space

Smoke-detector isotope to power space probes

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