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News of the latest adventures into space, and plans of upcoming explorations across the stars.
NASA prepares to transport the Orion in its Super Guppy aircraft
So, how does NASA transport all of its special spacecraft and accompanying parts? In a giant Super Guppy aircraft,…
Even Mars rovers take selfies
If you thought selfies were just a fad for humans, you were wrong. Mars' Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring…
Check out the giant robot arm assembling NASA’s Webb Telescope
If you thought NASA would leave the assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope to mere humans, you were wrong.…
Lockheed Martin wants to shrink space telescopes, increase power
Lockheed Martin is now working on a technology that can shrink a telescope's size, while making it even more…
NASA launched a football-field sized balloon to study the sun
Scientific balloons serve as a low-cost way to for space agencies and scientific communities to enter Earth's upper…
Watch this astronaut make coffee on the ISS
Making coffee in space isn't quite the same as making coffee here on Earth. Astronaut Tim Peake from the European…
NASA spacecraft sets solar-power distance record
On January 13, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter broke a new record. Juno was approximately 493 million miles from the…
NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars will not launch in March after all
Just last week, Lockheed Martin delivered NASA’s InSight spacecraft to its launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force…
NASA’s InSight Mars lander shipped to launch site, prepares for March…
Lockheed Martin has just delivered NASA's InSight spacecraft to its launch site at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in…