Fifty years ago, we landed on the Moon – now you can relive NASA’s historic mission as it happened
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“Apollo 11′s manned lunar landing was almost cancelled,” says Aldrin
The second man on the Moon reveals how Apollo 12, not Apollo 11, could have been the first manned lunar landing
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Speedy assembling: Astronomers are hastily creating instruments for 2021 lunar landing
University of California, Berkeley, are working in a hurry as NASA expects several lunar instruments to be ready in just two years
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NASA’s next highly-anticipated observatory passes important instrument review
NASA’s WFIRST mission will succeed the Spitzer Space Telescope as the organisation’s infrared eye in the sky
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NASA selects PUNCH mission to image the Sun’s outer atmosphere
Studying the Sun’s corona will help understand erratic solar behaviour that could potentially harm Earth
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Is it possible for a spacecraft to be self-sustaining?
A craft with this ability would need to rely on plant life being able to flourish in space
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NASA prepares to launch a satellite that will examine space radiation
NASA’s SET mission will get a clearer idea of the radiation that could be potentially harmful for any future space missions
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Mars helicopter now enters the final testing phase
When it reaches the Red Planet in 2021, it will become the first autonomous helicopter to fly on another planet
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Interplanetary pitstop: Using comets for breathable oxygen replenishment
Comets are a valuable source of breathable oxygen in the vast vacuum of space, and astronomers want to utilise that for future human space exploration
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What would happen to a rocket that couldn’t reach escape velocity?
We reveal the answer to this intriguing question
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Get your name on the Mars 2020 rover!
NASA’s next Martian rover is now accepting names from the public to travel with it to the Red Planet next year
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The Mars 2020 spacecraft is being pieced together
NASA’s next installment in Martian rover exploration, Mars 2020, will have soon have its protective layers for travelling to Mars
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What was the first spacecraft to arrive at a planet?
We recount the day when the first manmade spacecraft made contact with another world
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrates a tremendous milestone
The Mars orbiter has recently hit 60,000 orbits around the Red Planet, a feat that took over 13 years to complete
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NASA plans next-generation missions to probe Uranus and Neptune
Of all the planets in the Solar System the ice giants remain relatively unexplored
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Piecing together the puzzle of the Mars 2020 rover
Technicians and engineers have been stacking the pieces of the Mars 2020 spacecraft together in its entry capsule
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Heroes of Space: James Irwin
The deeply religious astronaut who found inspiration during his time on the Moon
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BepiColombo is officially on its way to Mercury
The space probe that will investigate the Solar System’s innermost planet has finally departed the orbit of Earth
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Astronomers uncover a flurry of surprises with the latest inspection of asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has uncovered some interesting details about the asteroid’s eruptive particle plumes, jagged surface and more
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SpaceX and NASA complete historic rendezvous with the ISS
Demo-1 marked an incredible collaborative effort between NASA and SpaceX that has shown positive signs of what’s to come