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Space Exploration

Heroes of Space: The Mercury 13 crew

In a time of gender prejudice, these women were denied the chance to fly into space, despite their obvious and remarkable capabilities

Space Exploration

Watch LIVE: The first all-female spacewalk

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will soon make history with the first all-female spacewalk, approximately commencing at 11:50 GMT (6:50 ET) on 18 October 2019

Space Exploration

Why aren’t the stars visible in pictures of astronauts on spacewalks?

We answer the question of why the stars are hidden in pictures taken from space

Space Exploration

NASA’s first SLS megarocket launch to the Moon could be delayed to 2021

The Space Launch System megarocket will eventually take humans back to the Moon in 2024

Space Exploration

Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat

Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues

Space Exploration

Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December

Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019

Space Exploration

Heroes of Space: Laika the space dog

How one dog went from being a stray on the streets of Moscow to the first animal to orbit the Earth

Space Exploration

SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020

Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go

Space Exploration

NASA wants to encourage private space stations

commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit

Space Exploration

Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year

2020 is a more likely target

Space Exploration

Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe drops its last rover on asteroid Ryugu

The space probe has released its fourth, and final, rover onto the asteroid’s surface at a different height from the others

Space Exploration

Heroes of Space: Pete Conrad

The maverick astronaut who became known to many as the Comeback Kid

Space Exploration

‘Totally nuts’? Elon Musk aims to put a Starship in orbit in six months. Here’s SpaceX’s plan

The landmark orbital flight will likely be made by the fourth or fifth full-size Starship prototype

Space Exploration

NASA hands out $43 million for ‘Tipping Point’ tech for the Moon and Mars

Blue Origin and SpaceX are among the winners

Space Exploration

Elon Musk just dropped more tantalising details about SpaceX’s Starship prototype

The Starship Mk1 will be 50 metres (165 feet) tall and weigh 1,270 tonnes (1,400 tons) when fuelled

Space Exploration

NASA wants to test new Moon spacesuits on the space station in 2023

The space agency have called for a new space suit to compliment their Artemis program

Space Exploration

NASA wants a new space telescope to protect us all from dangerous asteroids

The organisation want to rehash an old mission concept for planetary defence, instead of the initially-intended science aims

Space Exploration

Why have we sent a mission to asteroid Bennu?

Why have scientists and engineers invested so much time, effort and money into a mission to a nearby asteroid?

Space Exploration

Do spacecraft slow down when they leave Earth’s atmosphere?

Find out what happens when a spacecraft manages to break through the atmosphere

Space Exploration

We could chase down an interstellar Comet Borisov by 2045

We could send a spacecraft to Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), but it wouldn’t be easy

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