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From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?

50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon – and NASA was in a spin about how best to get them safely home again

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Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

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Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

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GermRover in a mocked-up ISS

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Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS

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BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation

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BBC Earth from Space: satellite images give new view on conservation

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight

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Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon

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Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon

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Twins Scott and Mark Kelly

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What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

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A laser pushes a mini spacecraft's light sail in this artist's impression

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A mission to Alpha Centauri affirms humanity's faith in the future

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Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

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Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light

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Everything you need to know about the first black hole image

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First ever real image of a black hole revealed

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NASA says the International Space Station is covered in bacteria

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NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era

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