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NASA's method of paying for its giant rocket belongs in the Apollo era

Contracts that leave NASA meeting all the extra development costs for its Space Launch System make no sense when firms like SpaceX offer fixed-price flights

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Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

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NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

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Two days remain until the planned liftoff of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket—the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans. Liftoff is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission to the International Space Station serves as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities.

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SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS

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Apollo 1 crew in swimming pool

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NASA's photo archives reveal 60 years of space travel

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Curiosity

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We’ve hacked the Curiosity rover to learn how mountains form on Mars

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Ultima Thule

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Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice

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Mars, as seen by NASA's InSight lander

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Spacecraft to study marsquakes lands on Mars after 7 minutes of terror

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

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The Sun review – a shiny blockbuster for London’s Science Museum

Mesmerising footage from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and an exquisite Bronze Age golden disc help a new show capture our complex relationship with the sun

Culture

Space

Row with Russia and SpaceX delays could leave NASA unable to reach ISS

Insight

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First Man: Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle on faking the moon landing

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Space

Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth

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Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station?

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