Do astronauts have their spacesuits and helmets personally made for them?
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Heroes of Space: Abe Silverstein
Meet the father of the Apollo programme
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What is more powerful: A Soyuz rocket or a Delta IV rocket?
Now we like the Soyuz rocket, and we like the Delta IV rocket, but which is better? There’s only one way to find out…
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How was NASA formed?
We find out how America’s space agency started out
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NASA’s revolutionary Dawn spacecraft enters the final stretch
The legacy of Dawn has taught astronomers remarkable things about the evolution of the inner Solar System
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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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Curiosity surveys its surroundings after the global dust storm
Along with creating a 360-degree panorama of Vera Rubin Ridge, Curiosity has also been drilling for samples
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Researchers say the next exploration mission should be to an exoplanet
This new report states that NASA’s next mission to be to directly study Earth-like exoplanets, as we know so little about other planetary systems
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What happens to the human body during spaceflight?
We take a look at what weightlessness does to the body
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Heroes of Space: Robert Goddard
The man who overcame ridicule to launch the age of space exploration
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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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What happened during the Space Race?
We know it was a competition during the 20th Century, but what was the end result?
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New Horizons Update: Ultima Thule has been spotted ahead of its flyby
NASA’s spacecraft will examine the rare Kuiper Belt object on 1 January 2019, and now it has the object in its sights
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Heroes of Space: Svetlana K Savitskaya
Savitskaya paved the way for female cosmonauts
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Heroes of Space: Elon Musk
How this entrepreneur is almost single-handedly ushering in a new era of private space exploration through his company SpaceX.
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Celebrating 15 years of the Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA’s iconic infrared telescope has reached a tremendous milestone, revealing many unknown details about our solar system and beyond in the process
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NASA’s InSight lander is halfway to its destination
Whilst reaching this milestone, all of its instruments were tested and are thankfully in superb condition
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Has anyone ever caught the common cold in space?
Do astronauts get struck down by space sickness?
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Heroes of Space: Ham the chimpanzee
As the first primate in space, Ham paved the way for human exploration
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NASA Parker Solar Probe blasts off for mission to ‘touch the Sun’
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, the car-sized spacecraft launched from Florida to begin its journey