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Three astronauts return to Earth after year in space; NASA’s Frank Rubio sets U.S. space record
This handout photograph taken and released by NASA on September 27, 2023, shows International Space Station (ISS) crew (From L-Bottom) Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin (sitting in chairs) outside the Soyuz MS-23 capsule after its' landing in a remote area near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. The trio returned to Earth after logging 371 days in space as members of Expeditions 68-69 aboard the International Space Station. For Rubio, his mission is the longest single spaceflight by a US astronaut in history. (Photo by Bill INGALLS / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/Bill Ingalls " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by BILL INGALLS/NASA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Globe Climate: Studying the start of the solar system may teach us about Earth’s future
The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah, U.S. September 24, 2023. NASA/Keegan Barber/Handout via REUTERS
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'Incredible': NASA hails return of asteroid sample
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Asteroid mission touches down bearing fragments of the heavens for science labs on Earth
This shot off a NASA live feed of the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample's return craft sitting in the Utah desert at Dugway, Utah, on September 24, 2023. The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch. Scientists hope the asteroid sample aboard the spacecraft will provide humanity with a better understanding on the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable. (Photo by Handout / AFP) (Photo by HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mile-Stones: Great Moments in Asteroid Exploration
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Asteroids like Bennu (pictured) are objects of interest to planetary scientists because of what they can reveal about the formation of our solar system, the risk of future impacts and the potential resources they hold that may one day be put to use in the development of space. Here are some of the key “firsts” in humanity’s exploration of the asteroids so far…
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After a seven-year quest, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission expected to deliver Bennu asteroid samples to Earth
This artist's concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passing by Earth. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona
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NASA releases UFO report, says more science and less stigma needed to understand them
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 14: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attends a press conference at NASA headquarters September 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. NASA announced the agency has appointed a new director of research to study “unidentified anomalous phenomenon”, formerly referred to as UFOs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Ontario professor part of NASA’s geology team for Artemis III moon mission
CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques, left, and Dr. Gordon Osinski are shown on a field training expedition at West Clearwater Lake in northern Quebec in this 2014 handout photo. In a milestone moment for Canadian space science, planetary geologist Gordon “Oz” Osinski is hoping to "make Canada proud" after his appointment to a NASA team that will train the first person to walk on the moon in over 50 years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Gordon Osinski
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Canada to receive rock sample share collected from asteroid surface in NASA mission
Victoria Thiem, Lockheed Martin System Safety Engineer conducts NASA's first major asteroid sample recovery rehearsal for its OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer) mission, at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado, on June 27, 2023. OSIRIS-REx is the first US mission to capture a sample from the surface of an asteroid. The delivery from asteroid Bennu will arrive on September 24, 2023, and is expected to help researchers study the origins of organics and water that could have led to life on Earth. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP) (Photo by JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images)
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New crew for the space station launches with astronauts from 4 countries
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov wave as they depart their crew quarters for the launch pad before their mission to the International Space Station as Crew-7 on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 26, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper REFILE - CORRECTING DATE
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U.S. sues SpaceX, alleges hiring discrimination against asylum seekers, refugees
This handout image courtesy of NASA shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen at sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-7 mission, August 23, 2023, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo by Joel KOWSKY / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/Joel Kowsky" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by JOEL KOWSKY/NASA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Artemis astronauts get first look at their spacecraft for moon voyage
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NASA hears signal from Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistakenly cutting contact
A photo provided by NASA shows repairs to the Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra, Australia, the only means of communication with the Voyager 2 spacecraft. NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is being restored on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (NASA via The New York Times) -- EDITORIAL USE ONLY --
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Dramatic NASA photo shows a close-up of stellar birth
The first anniversary image released Wednesday, July 12, 2023, by Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displaying a star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pon via AP)
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NASA sees moon lunar mining trial within the next decade
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis I mission to the moon at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo/File Photo
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Rain helps firefighters’ efforts in Quebec, but not enough of it to extinguish flames
A wildfire raging west of Chibougamau, in northern Quebec, is shown in a June 4, 2023, handout photo. NASA reports smoke from wildfires in northern Quebec has reached Europe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-SOPFEU, Audrey Marcoux, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Boeing’s astronaut capsule faces more launch delays after latest problems
FILE - Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On Thursday, June 1, 2023, Boeing and NASA announced that the astronaut capsule faces more launch delays, this time because of flammable tape and weak parachute lines. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP, File)
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NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects
FILE PHOTO: Workers pressure wash the logo of NASA on the Vehicle Assembly Building before SpaceX will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
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NASA looks to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production
International Space Station astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, Akihiko Hoshide and Megan McArthur, pose with chile peppers grown in space for the first time aboard the orbiting laboratory platform for the Plant Habitat-04 investigation, in this undated handout picture. NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge seeks to expand on space-based food production technologies for future long-duration missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. NASA/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY MANDATORY CREDIT
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Saudi astronauts, including nation’s first woman, catch private flight to space station
This photo provided by Axiom Space in 2023 shows astronauts, from left, John Shoffner, Rayyanah Barnawi, Peggy Whitson and Ali al-Qarni. (Axiom Space via AP)
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Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build lunar lander
FILE PHOTO: Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Isaiah J. Downing/File Photo
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China’s Mars rover finds signs of recent water in sand dunes
FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file image taken by the Mars Perseverance rover and made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, right, flies over the surface of the planet. A new study suggests water on Mars may be more widespread and recent than previously thought. Scientists reported the finding from China's Mars rover in Science Advances on Friday, April 28, 2023. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via AP, File)
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Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert
This illustration provided by NASA depicts the RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar observation satellite. The defunct science satellite will plummet through the atmosphere Wednesday night, April 19, 2023, according to NASA and the Defense Department. Experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger. (NASA via AP)
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SpaceX’s uncrewed giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Combination image showing three phases of the SpaceX rocket launch on April 20, 2023. Left to right: soon after launch, the rocket tumbling during its failed separation, the explosion of the uncrewed rocket. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, Eric Gay/AP)
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Old NASA satellite falling to Earth, risk of danger ‘low’
This illustration provided by NASA depicts the RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar observation satellite. The defunct science satellite will plummet through the atmosphere Wednesday night, April 19, 2023, according to NASA and the Defense Department. Experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger. (NASA via AP)
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Blast off: a timeline of Canadians in space
An undated image from NASA TV shows the astronaut Chris Hadfield performing his rendition of David Bowie’s “A Space Oddity” aboard the International Space Station in 2013. For two decades, the space station has been humanity’s home in space, about 240 miles above the Earth. (NASA TV via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY —
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Webb Space Telescope found no atmosphere at faraway Earth-sized world, study says
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like, based on available data about its diameter, mass and distances from the host star. The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven rocky, Earth-size worlds orbiting a nearby star. Scientists say that doesn't bode well for the rest of the planets in this solar system, some of which are in the sweet spot for harboring water and, therefore, life. In a study published Monday, March 27, 2023 a NASA-led team reported little if no atmosphere exists at the innermost planet in the Trappist system, 40 light-years away. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
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SpaceX launches four astronaut crew to space station for NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39-A Thursday, March 2, 2023, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Four astronauts are beginning a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Russia launches rescue ship to space station after leaks
In this handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the new, empty Soyuz MS-23 capsule blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. Russia has launched a rescue ship for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride sprang a dangerous leak at the International Space Station. (Ivan Timoshenko/Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
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How, and why, we are going back to the moon
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