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‘Happy to be there’: What next for the Boeing Starliner crew stranded on the ISS?

‘Happy to be there’: What next for the Boeing Starliner crew stranded on the ISS?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the first crew on Boeing’s Starliner, have been stranded on the ISS. What happens now? ADVERTISEMENT ...

David Bowie was right – there are spiders on Mars! European Space Agency’s spacecrafts snap mysterious arachnid shapes on the Red Planet

David Bowie was right – there are spiders on Mars! European Space Agency’s spacecrafts snap mysterious arachnid shapes on the Red Planet

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Although not actual spiders, ‘araneiforms’ are dark cracks in the Martian soil READ MORE: Mars has two miles of water buried at ...

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Throughout the five months of troubleshooting, Voyager’s ground team continued to receive signals indicating the spacecraft was still alive. But until Saturday, ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish

NASA’s Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission ...

NASA’s ‘Armageddon’ mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars

NASA’s ‘Armageddon’ mission backfires! DART asteroid deflection test created a cloud of giant boulders that are set to crash into Mars

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The craft rammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, creating 37 new space boulders  This new cloud of boulders will cross Mars’s orbit multiple ...

NASA Is Still Fighting to Save Its Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

NASA Is Still Fighting to Save Its Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system ...

SpaceX’s record-setting rocket booster lost at sea

SpaceX’s record-setting rocket booster lost at sea

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

SpaceX’s historic B1058 Falcon 9 booster during one of its 19 flights. SpaceX It turns out that for SpaceX, landing a rocket ...

How to Watch SpaceX Launch Space Force’s Spaceplane for the First Time

How to Watch SpaceX Launch Space Force’s Spaceplane for the First Time

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will attempt to deliver the Pentagon’s spaceplane to low Earth orbit. The mission marks ...

SpaceX’s Starship Lost Shortly After Launch of Second Test Flight

SpaceX’s Starship Lost Shortly After Launch of Second Test Flight

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Sophie Anderson

“So far today has been incredibly successful, even with the RUD of the Super Heavy booster,” said Kate Tice, SpaceX’s quality systems ...

Nasa gets ‘puzzling’ data back from Lucy spacecraft exploring distant object

Nasa gets ‘puzzling’ data back from Lucy spacecraft exploring distant object

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) as NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft ...