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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden

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Win lunch with an astronaut

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden flew to the moon and holds two Guinness world records. Now you can have lunch with him in our exclusive competition

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A rendering of a Moon Express spacecraft

Space

Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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A white dust devil against the red Martian surface

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Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

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Smallest satellite ever paves way for planned interstellar fleet

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explosion in desert

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Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

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Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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Elon Musk seems to have ditched Red Dragon lander plan for Mars

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Illustration showing Moon Express probe against lunar backdrop

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Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020

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First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby

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First close-ups of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from Juno flyby

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VP Mike Pence on a NASA tour

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Mike Pence says he touched NASA equipment on a dare

The US Vice President placed his hands on a piece of the Orion spacecraft while on a tour at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, despite a sign that forbade it

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Rocket failure may delay China’s space station and moon missions

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Sun’s gravity could power interstellar video streaming

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SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend

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The bandwidth black hole that will kill Elon Musk’s Mars dream

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