Nasa
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Obituaries
Mary Cleave, Who Glimpsed a Blighted Earth From Space, Dies at 76
After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research…
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World
Space Station to Earth: Houston, We Have Found the Tomato
The NASA astronaut Frank Rubio grew a tomato in space, but then it disappeared. Suspicion trailed Mr. Rubio for months,…
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World
How NASA Learned to Love 4 Squirmy Letters
Richard Danne, left, shakes hands with NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana. Credit...Keegan Barber/NASALast month, NASA welcomed Richard Danne to its…
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World
NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Is Ready to Launch
The journey on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed this week by poor weather conditions.
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World
Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17…
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World
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
First detected just days ago, 2023 BU will approach within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
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World
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
BALTIMORE — So far it’s been eye candy from heaven: The black vastness of space teeming with enigmatic, unfathomably distant…
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World
NASA Concludes InSight, Mars Mission That Listened for Quakes
After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because…
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US
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia
For half a decade now, influential young scientists have denounced NASA’s decision to name its deep-space telescope after James E.…
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World
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for the International Space Station,…