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NASA astronaut Victor Glover will be making his second flight to space as the pilot of the Artemis II mission.

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A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission

Navy Capt. Victor Glover, who spent nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, will be among four astronauts to venture back to the moon for the first time since 1972.

February 27, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
These photos provided by NASA show images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team which confirmed Odysseus completed its landing.

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Odysseus moon lander will cease working after sideways landing

Intuitive Machines, the company that built and flew the spacecraft, said it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels, expected to happen Tuesday morning.

February 27, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
In this image from video provided by NASA, Steve Altemus, CEO and co-founder of Intuitive Machines, describes how it is believed the company's Odysseus spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon, during a news conference in Houston on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.

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U.S. lunar lander is on its side with some antennas covered up, the company says

Odysseus — the first U.S. lander in over 50 years — tipped over at touchdown and ended up on its side near the moon's south pole, hampering communications, Intuitive Machines officials said Friday.

February 23, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The sun is shown in the first phase of a total eclipse in this photo taken in August 2017 from Grand Teton National Park outside Jackson, Wyo.

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Delta's special total solar eclipse flight sold out in 24 hours

An Austin, Texas-to-Detroit flight along April's path of totality is sold out. There are other flights with a view, though your best bet may actually be here on Earth, says one astrophysicist.

February 23, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
The IM-1 Nova-C lander, from Houston-based Intuitive Machines, just became the first private spacecraft to land on the moon in one piece.

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Private lunar lander returns U.S. to the moon 50 years later. Here's what to know

The Houston-based company has pulled off the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It's America's first soft landing in decades.

February 22, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel and
  • Emma Bowman
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab on Nov. 8, 2021.

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The International Space Station retires soon. NASA won't run its future replacement.

NASA is crashing the ISS into the ocean at the end of 2030. The agency is collaborating with private companies to build its replacement. So what could the space stations of the near future look like?

February 22, 2024
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  • Kaity Kline
The ERS-2 was launched in 1995 and retired in 2011. It fell back to Earth this week.

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A dead satellite crashed back to Earth. No worries, it landed in the Pacific

The one-in-a-billion chance it could have hit somebody on the head didn't become a reality, as the European satellite reentered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii.

February 21, 2024
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  • James Doubek and
  • Maquita Peters
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.

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NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year

The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.

February 21, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory this month depicts the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole.

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Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the equivalent of one sun per day

With a mass 17 billion times larger than our sun, this black hole is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, Australian National University said.

February 20, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 15, 2024. The rocket is carrying Intuitive Machines' lunar lander on its way to the moon, with a planned Feb. 22 touchdown.

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In latest lunar landing trial, Intuitive Machines hopes to get U.S. back to the moon

If successful, the uncrewed spacecraft would be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, and would mean one giant leap for the commercial space sector.

February 19, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
National security adviser Jake Sullivan, pictured at a White House briefing on Wednesday, spoke to <em>Morning Edition</em> about Russia's anti-satellite capability, U.S. aid to Ukraine and reports of the death of Alexei Navalny.

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Jake Sullivan says the U.S. is engaging with allies, and Russia, on the space threat

National security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke to NPR's Morning Edition about Alexei Navalny dying in prison — and his briefing of U.S. congressional leaders on new Russian "anti-satellite capability."

February 16, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon.

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Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moon

An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said

February 15, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Sean Crimmins, a senior in engineering at the University of Nebraska, loads the robotic arm into its case on Aug. 11 before a shake test.

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A tiny robot on the space station will simulate remote-controlled surgery up there

A robotic assistant recently arrived at the International Space Station to perform a simulated surgery that will be controlled by a surgeon 250 miles away on Earth.

February 10, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
In this image from video provided by NASA, the 11 International Space Station crew members representing Expedition 70 (red shirts) and Axiom Space 3 (dark blue suits) crews gather for a farewell ceremony calling down to mission controllers on Earth on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

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Four European astronauts return to Earth after Axiom Space's Ax-3 commercial mission

The crew of four commercial astronauts flew to the International Space Station last month on a SpaceX rocket and capsule. Their time in space was extended several days due to poor weather off Florida.

February 09, 2024
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  • Brendan Byrne
This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon.

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The Japanese moon lander gets back to work after the sun reaches its solar panels

A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power.

January 29, 2024
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