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
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No space crash: Dead Russian satellite just missed an old habitat prototype in orbit
It could have been really bad
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NASA’s Juno mission checks out eclipse on Jupiter
One of of Galilean moons cast a giant shadow over Jupiter which was spotted by NASA’s Juno spacecraft
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If you ran faster than the speed of light, would you cast a shadow?
In this hypothetic question, what happens to your shadow when sprinting at inhuman speeds?
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Heroes of Space: Margaret Rhea Seddon
She became the first female surgeon to go into space
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Long after historic flybys, NASA’s New Horizons is still pioneering science in the Kuiper Belt
The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer