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The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is seen after it landed in White Sands, N.M., . Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year Boeing-Crew Capsule, White Sands, USA - 22 Dec 2019

Space

Boeing's Starliner hiccup could delay US plans for crewed spaceflight

A problem with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft prevented it from visiting the ISS on its first flight to space

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Starliner launch

Space

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft fails to reach ISS due to a broken clock

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is launching to space for the first time

Space

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is launching to space for the first time

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A prototype of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft

Space

2019 was the year we got serious about walking on the moon again

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Could vacuum airships go from steampunk fantasy to 21st century skies?

Technology

Could vacuum airships go from steampunk fantasy to 21st century skies?

Features

Imagined Mars settlement

Space

Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

Insight

Vikram debris on the moon

Space

NASA has found the remnants of India’s Vikram moon lander

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Immunofluorescence imaging of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes grown in microgravity aboard the ISS

Space

Spaceflight alters heart cells but they quickly recover back on Earth

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Space

The space-junk calamity that could cut us off from the cosmos

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aeronauts film poster

Life

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Culture

Space

Blue Origin assembles space industry dream team to build moon lander

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Technology

Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

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Space

NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physics

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