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EgyptSat-A’s $100 million cost covered by Russian company: Minister
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EgyptSat-A’s $100 million cost covered by Russian company: Minister

Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghafar announced that a Russian insurance company has covered the costs for the third…
NASA greenlights SpaceX crew capsule test to ISS
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NASA greenlights SpaceX crew capsule test to ISS

NASA on Friday gave SpaceX the green light to test a new crew capsule by first sending an unmanned craft…
New Universe map unearths 300,000 more galaxies
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New Universe map unearths 300,000 more galaxies

The known Universe just got a lot bigger. A new map of the night sky published Tuesday charts hundreds of…
NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity Rover
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NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity Rover

US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight months…
Total lunar eclipse woos sky watchers
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Total lunar eclipse woos sky watchers

  An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for sky…
Cottoning on: Chinese seed sprouts on moon
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Cottoning on: Chinese seed sprouts on moon

  A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinated on…
China lands probe on far side of moon in world first
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China lands probe on far side of moon in world first

A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts…
NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed
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NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

  A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind,…
China launches rover for first far side of the moon landing
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China launches rover for first far side of the moon landing

  China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first…
First manned space mission launches since Soyuz failure
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First manned space mission launches since Soyuz failure

  The first manned space mission to the International Space Station since an unprecedented accident in October, which raised concerns…
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