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Starhopper

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SpaceX’s shiny new spaceship prototype has flown for the first time

The Starhopper, SpaceX’s prototype for its interplanetary spacecraft Starship, made its first flight without a leash tying it to the ground on 25 July

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space

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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space

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Astronaut on Moon

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

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

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

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

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The space shuttle

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Tiangong space station

Phobos

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Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon

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A comet in the solar system

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ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet

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Earthrise

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Earthrise

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NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring science to the moon

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Why space junk is such a big problem

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Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money

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

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