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With new patch design, the Crew-13 astronauts clearly aren’t superstitious
It comes after 12 The STS-13 crew, redesignated STS-41-C, created this patch that highlights superstitions and triskaidekaphobia. The STS-13 crew, […]
Artemis II broke Fred Haise’s distance record, but he is happy to pass it on
“It wasn’t a big deal. It just coincided with the fact that Moon was farther away from the Earth.” Former […]
Visitors to this private space station won’t be wearing shorts and T-shirts
Skip to content Can you wear white after Labor Day if your destination is Earth orbit? The Vast Astronaut Flight […]
Why will today’s lunar flyby only beam back low-resolution video?
The Moon is growing large in the window “Don’t expect hi-res video.” An exaggerated, pixelated version of a photo of […]
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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule
“My job now is to make sure that we can undertake such a transportation [of Discovery] within the budget dollars […]
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100 years later, where is Robert Goddard’s first liquid-fuel rocket?
“He didn’t preserve it as a sacred object… “ Robert Goddard (at left) and Henry Sachs, Percy Roope, and Esther […]
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NASA stage show explores “outer” outer space with Henson’s Fraggles
(Asked why Traveling Matt would not have recognized the Moon from his time in outer space, Tartaglia said that perhaps […]
I bought “Remove Before Flight” tags on eBay in 2010—it turns out they’re from Challenger
40th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy “This is an attempt to learn more…” The stack of 18 “Remove Before Flight” […]
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All sorts of interesting flags and artifacts will fly to the Moon on Artemis II
NASA’s first astronauts to fly to the Moon in more than 50 years will pay tribute to the lunar and […]