In a time of gender prejudice, these women were denied the chance to fly into space, despite their obvious and remarkable capabilities
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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
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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
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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
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Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
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Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
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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
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SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
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NASA wants to encourage private space stations
commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit
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Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year
2020 is a more likely target
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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
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Heroes of Space: Pete Conrad
The maverick astronaut who became known to many as the Comeback Kid
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‘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
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NASA hands out $43 million for ‘Tipping Point’ tech for the Moon and Mars
Blue Origin and SpaceX are among the winners
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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Do spacecraft slow down when they leave Earth’s atmosphere?
Find out what happens when a spacecraft manages to break through the atmosphere
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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