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Rocket start-up Astra tries back-to-back launches to win $12 million

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Rocket start-up Astra tries back-to-back launches to win $12 million

A space flight start-up called Astra is about to attempt to launch two small rockets into orbit over a few weeks to win $12 million from the US military

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Cork spacecraft

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Cork-coated spacecraft to be chucked out of the ISS for re-entry test

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Solar Orbiter

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Solar Orbiter will give us our best views of the sun’s top and bottom

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Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet

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Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet

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Imagined Mars settlement

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Should SpaceX be allowed to contaminate Mars with Earth microbes?

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SpaceBit rover

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Plans for UK's first moon rover announced at New Scientist Live

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How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation

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How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation

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150 meter Starhopper test

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SpaceX’s Starhopper has made its highest and final test flight

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Starhopper

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SpaceX’s shiny new spaceship prototype has flown for the first time

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

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Man on the moon? Why we said Apollo 11 was an empty, obsessional quest

New Scientist was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that the money to send people into space was being wasted. Why were we so grumpy and pessimistic about putting a man on the moon?

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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space

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Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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The space shuttle