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Mary Cleave, Who Glimpsed a Blighted Earth From Space, Dies at 76
After flying on two shuttle missions and viewing a deteriorating world out a spacecraft window, she turned to environmental research for NASA.
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Science
Space Station to Earth: Houston, We Have Found the Tomato
The NASA astronaut Frank Rubio grew a tomato in space, but then it disappeared. Suspicion trailed Mr. Rubio for months, but he was proved innocent.
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Science
How NASA Learned to Love 4 Squirmy Letters
Richard Danne, left, shakes hands with NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana. Credit...Keegan Barber/NASALast month, NASA welcomed Richard Danne to its headquarters in Washington to celebrate work he had done nearly half a century ago. Mr. Danne ...
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Science
NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Is Ready to Launch
The journey on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has been delayed this week by poor weather conditions.
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News
Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitational pull tugs not just on our oceans but our imaginations. For 75 hours, the astronauts ...
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Science
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Tonight
First detected just days ago, 2023 BU will approach within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
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Science
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
BALTIMORE — So far it’s been eye candy from heaven: The black vastness of space teeming with enigmatic, unfathomably distant blobs of light. Ghostly portraits of Neptune, Jupiter and other neighbors we thought we knew already. Nebulas and galaxies ...
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Science
NASA Concludes InSight, Mars Mission That Listened for Quakes
After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because of Martian dust covering its solar panels.
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US
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia
For half a decade now, influential young scientists have denounced NASA’s decision to name its deep-space telescope after James E. Webb, who led the space agency to the cusp of the 1969 moon landing. This man, they insisted, was a homophobe who ...
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Science
Russian Spacewalk Is Canceled Due to Coolant Leak
When mission controllers observed white particles spewing from a spacecraft that serves as a “lifeboat” for the International Space Station, they scrapped the mission.