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Space

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

Contracts that leave NASA meeting all the extra development costs for its Space Launch System make no sense when firms like SpaceX offer fixed-price flights

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moon

Space

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

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The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini

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The weird and wonderful inner moons of Saturn revealed by Cassini

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space junk

Space

Our most pressing space mission is to clear decades of orbiting junk

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There’s so much junk in space that our satellites will soon be at risk

Features

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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woman astronaut cartoon

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Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

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ISS toilet

Space

Toilet on International Space Station gets a bacteria-killing upgrade

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Ultima Thule, a distant space rock with two lobes like a bowling pin

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Distant space rock Ultima Thule formed in a slow and gentle collision

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Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year

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Revealed: First image of huge meteor explosion over Earth last year

The huge meteor explosion which hit Earth in December was caught on camera by the Japanese Himawari-8 weather satellite

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Space

Black holes and lasers could let us cheat at interstellar travel

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Mae Jemison: The astronaut plotting a journey to other stars

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At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach

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SpaceX ready to take humans to the ISS after a successful dummy run

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