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Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dead at 90
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in…
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NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander, which has…
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Russia may expedite launch of next space capsule after leak
MOSCOW — Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos said Monday that a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the…
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Cosmonauts’ spacewalk canceled at space station due to leak
NASA and Russia’s space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts just as they were preparing to exit the…
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Satellite launched to map the world’s oceans, lakes, rivers
A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The…
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Russian space capsule leak likely caused by micrometeorite
MOSCOW — A coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station was likely caused by…
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NASA Orion capsule safely blazes back from moon, aces test
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific…
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Japanese company’s lander rockets toward moon with UAE rover
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop…
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SpaceX gives rival’s internet satellites ride to orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched internet satellites for a competitor Thursday, stepping in to help after the London-based OneWeb…
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Rare Apollo mission moon rock back in Cyprus after 50 years
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a minute piece of…
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