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Touchdown vs Splashdown: Why Shubhanshu Shukla's Dragon capsule landed in water, not on land
The return of Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla aboard SpaceX's Dragon Grace spacecraft will end with a splashdown in the ...
Flight Controller Steve Bales And Tension That Led To Man’s First Step
The historic Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, was far from a given. Mission Control’s Steve Bales recounts the tense ...
A lunar base could start with a dome over a crater made of regolith
When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...
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Talking Points: Mission ‘Controls’
Preparing for retirement is often compared to preparing for a long trip — and there is perhaps no longer trip ever prepared for than going to the moon.
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' pushes for crewed moon missions, but proposed budget cuts leave NASA science behind
The recent United States government's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was recently signed into law has good news for the ...
Katy Perry and her fellow space tourists weren't exceptions. Humanity has long cared about interplanetary style
When pop star Katy Perry and five other women made a much-publicized trip to the edge of space earlier this year, they faced ...
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Revisiting 1975's Apollo-Soyuz Mission
Revisiting the Apollo-Soyuz mission could help us understand the purpose of science diplomacy and what can realistically be ...