The Energia-Buran, as detailed by an eyewitness to the Soviet spaceplane before its destruction
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The maverick pioneers of rocketry outside government programs
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Cheomseongdae: the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in East Asia
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A room full of stars: The world's oldest (and most beautiful) planetarium
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The comet panic of 1910, revisited
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Iceland has been the backdrop for generations of astronaut training missions – we look at what makes the Arctic island nation so crucial for Moon research
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Book review: "Escaping Gravity" by Lori Garver
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Arecibo "Wow!" signal likely caused by rare astrophysical event
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Fifty years later, this Apollo-era antenna still talks to Voyager 2
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Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
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The insane engineering of the space shuttle
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What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?
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Uncovering the forgotten female astronomers of Yerkes Observatory
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I was scared to say this to NASA... (but I said it anyway)
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A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely
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We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago
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Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023)
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NASA's "rubber room", the emergency egress bunker located below the Apollo launch pad
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We're back at the Royal Astronomical Society to look at some awesome antique moon globes
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One great article about every planet in the solar system
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How to measure the distance to everything that exists, one step at a time
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How Japan managed to launch rockets into orbit without steering
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Bygone visions of cosmic neighbors
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The entire Soviet rocket engine family tree
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1800s astronomical drawings vs. NASA images
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How not to deal with murder in space
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Part of Wright brothers’ first airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper
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Strange object recaptured by Earth, and currently in Earth orbit, is 1966 Centaur upper stage from Surveyor 2 spacecraft
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Asteroid impact: What are our chances?
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The 1991 Thanksgiving Day prank in NASA's Mission Control that went horribly wrong
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Earth has captured a tiny object as a satellite for the next few months, which is likely the rocket booster from the failed Surveyor 2 mission to the Moon in 1966
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Arabic in the Sky
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NASA names headquarters after ‘hidden figure’ Mary W. Jackson
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My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy
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The story of how NASA went from space shuttles to SpaceX and commercial rockets
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The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V Story
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Apollo 11: From lunar orbit to landing
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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Long-lost US military satellite found by amateur radio operator
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The Hubble Space Telescope launched thirty years ago—then the problems began
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How astronaut Nick Hague survived an aborted Soyuz flight
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The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
How a meteorite ruined an Alabama woman's afternoon sixty-five years ago
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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
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The time when Zambia tried to go to Mars
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How To Start The Massive F-1 Rocket Engine - Explaining "Ignition Sequence Start"
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Original Apollo 11 landing videotapes sell for $1.8M
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Apollo 11 in real time
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NASA reopens Apollo mission control room that once landed men on Moon
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Was Apollo 11 a beginning or an end? Fifty years after man walked on the Moon, mankind is still stranded on Earth. That’s not the way it was supposed to be.
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