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Snatching a spinning spacecraft was ‘the greatest pride’ for 1st Canadian astronaut in space (video)

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Snatching a spinning spacecraft was ‘the greatest pride’ for 1st Canadian astronaut in space (video)

Space.com October 13, 2024

Canada’s first astronaut in space can’t believe how far the nation has come in 40 years. Marc...

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The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control

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The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control

Gizmodo-com October 12, 2024

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers) across struck Earth, ending...

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Scrubbed spacewalks, Starliner stay-overs and more: NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson discusses her eventful 6 months in orbit

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Scrubbed spacewalks, Starliner stay-overs and more: NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson discusses her eventful 6 months in orbit

Space.com October 7, 2024

Out of the 184 days that NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson logged on her most recent mission...

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‘We are close:’ SETI astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol on the search for life

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‘We are close:’ SETI astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol on the search for life

Space.com September 24, 2024

A leading astrobiologist melds her passion with the weighty nature of trying to grasp for answers to...

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‘Space for Birds’: Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)

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‘Space for Birds’: Astronaut Roberta Bondar captures avian habitats from Earth, in air and on orbit in new book (interview)

Space.com September 18, 2024

Roberta Bondar knew that she would not be able to hear birds, let alone seen them from...

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Q&A: Arctic capillaries—an eye-opening symptom in a swiftly changing landscape

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Q&A: Arctic capillaries—an eye-opening symptom in a swiftly changing landscape

Phys.org September 12, 2024

Abundance of ice-wedge polygons and the subsequent network of ice wedges. Credit: Nature Water (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44221-024-00276-9...

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‘We’re confident in it’: Boeing Starliner’s parachute team readies for Crew Flight Test landing without astronauts on Sept. 7

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‘We’re confident in it’: Boeing Starliner’s parachute team readies for Crew Flight Test landing without astronauts on Sept. 7

Space.com September 6, 2024

Starliner, without its astronauts, will make a twilight landing on Earth under parachutes on Sept. 7 after...

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Astronaut John McFall explains how the Paralympic Games shaped his space career (exclusive)

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Astronaut John McFall explains how the Paralympic Games shaped his space career (exclusive)

Space.com August 28, 2024

Astronaut John McFall medaled in the Paralympics in 2008, and the lessons he learned from that experience...

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‘The Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli opens up about her coming Blue Origin flight (interview)

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‘The Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli opens up about her coming Blue Origin flight (interview)

Space.com August 4, 2024

If you’ve always wanted to go to space, this story is for you. Science communicator and author...

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Possible signs of Mars life: Astrobiologist explains Perseverance rover’s exciting find

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Possible signs of Mars life: Astrobiologist explains Perseverance rover’s exciting find

Space.com August 2, 2024

The search for extraterrestrial life is as much about basic biology, geology and chemistry as it is...

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