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2d ago
The future of lunar exploration never looked more colorful ... or so square. "The Next Giant Leap," a pair of mostly moon-themed fabric quilts, debuted as part of the Earth to Space festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C ..read more
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2d ago
The next astronauts to fly to the moon now have a mission patch to represent their history-making journey. NASA debuted the official Artemis II insignia, its first emblem for a moon-bound crew in more than 50 years ..read more
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5d ago
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest, referencing the flight's South Pole passes ..read more
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5d ago
After more than 60 years and almost 360 missions, a crew of private astronauts has done something never before done in human spaceflight: they headed due south off the launch pad. The Fram2 crew will be the first to see the poles from Earth orbit ..read more
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1w ago
NASA's flight directors have taken a page from the astronaut crews they support, if not also the Masters Tournament, Hells Angels and even Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club. There is now a flight director's jacket ..read more
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John Scalzi cased out the Armstrong Air & Space Museum before writing his new book, "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." The bestselling author may have been confused of planning a heist given the way he eyed the museum's display of an Apollo 11 rock ..read more
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2w ago
A nearly month-long space mission is ready to lift off, with final preparations being made at the Kennedy Center. To be clear, not NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but rather the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C ..read more
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2w ago
Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible, but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended. The toy company is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its first spacesuit-clad fashion doll with a new reproduction of Barbie Miss Astronaut ..read more
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The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth and the only Apollo command module to be on display outside of the U.S. will soon be on the move in the United Kingdom ..read more
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The first astronauts to fly on two different commercial spacecraft during a single mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, have returned to Earth, splashing down with ISS crewmates Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov on SpaceX's Dragon Freedom ..read more