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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launch delayed due to rocket fault

Two astronauts will have to wait to set off for the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule, following a problem with the Atlas V rocket that caused the mission to be aborted before launch

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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

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Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems

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Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry

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SpaceX's Starship taking off on 14 March
Workers with NASA???s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) paint the bright red NASA ???worm??? logo on the side of an Artemis II solid rocket booster segment inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. The EGS team used a laser projector to mask off the logo with tape, then painted the first coat of the iconic design. The booster segments will help propel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis II mission to send four astronauts around the Moon as part of the agency???s effort to establish a long-term science and exploration presence at the Moon, and eventually Mars.

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NASA workers paint iconic logo onto Artemis II rocket boosters

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Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

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Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

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An artist's impression of Orion re-entering Earth's atmosphere

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SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blackout during re-entry

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Why the Peregrine moon lander was burned up in Earth's atmosphere

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Prototype rocket engine burns itself up for fuel as it flies

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The Peregrine lunar lander may not make it to the moon

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20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong?s photos of Buzz Aldrin?s first steps on the Moon. This was what it all boiled down to in the end, even after the unprecedented feats of rocketry and all the extraordinary technical innovation which had safely flown two astronauts to a destination a quarter of a million miles from home: the basic human act of walking.

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Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

From Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface to the first US spacewalk by Ed White, Tim Peake updates the story of “ordinary people doing extraordinary jobs”

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Part of the Karman Space Programme team with their first space vehicle prototype- The Vega Mini.

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Reusable rocket built by students is about to launch to space

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Mother-daughter pair Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers from Antigua and Barbuda, and Jon Goodwin, a former Olympic canoeist from the UK, passengers on Virgin Galactic-02

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Virgin Galactic launched its first space tourists

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Crystal impervious to radiation could be used in spaceship computers

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NASA announces four astronauts for Artemis II mission around the moon

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