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Cheers as Mars InSight spacecraft lands on Red Planet
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Cheers as Mars InSight spacecraft lands on Red Planet

  Cheers and applause erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a waist-high unmanned lander, called InSight, touched…
Anxiety at NASA as Mars InSight spacecraft nears Red Planet
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Anxiety at NASA as Mars InSight spacecraft nears Red Planet

  NASA’s top scientists admitted to sleepless nights, sweaty palms, stomach aches and moments of pure terror as their $993…
Big test coming up for tiny satellites trailing Mars lander
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Big test coming up for tiny satellites trailing Mars lander

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA’s InSight spacecraft all the way to…
How to drive a robot on Mars
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How to drive a robot on Mars

  Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot…
Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System
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Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System

  Is Mercury’s core liquid or solid, and why — on the smallest planet in our solar system — is…
Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, 2-man US-Russian crew lands safely
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Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, 2-man US-Russian crew lands safely

  BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – The two-man US-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft taking them to the orbiting International…
Japan space tourist says moon training ‘shouldn’t be too hard’
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Japan space tourist says moon training ‘shouldn’t be too hard’

  Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa’s training to go the moon should not be too tricky,…
Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage
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Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage

  Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week…
UAE names 2 astronauts to go to International Space Station
Middle East

UAE names 2 astronauts to go to International Space Station

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ruler of Dubai has announced the names of two astronauts from the United…
New Egyptian remote sensing satellite to be launched by end of 2018
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New Egyptian remote sensing satellite to be launched by end of 2018

  Head of the Egyptian-Russian Foundation for Culture and Science, Hussain al-Shafei announced on Friday that the Russian State Corporation…
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