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NASA astronauts splash down off SoCal coast for first time in 50 years
Four astronauts splash down off the Southern California coast after a five-month stay at the International Space Station. A NASA crew hadn't returned in the Pacific since 1975.
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Can you name the 12 Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon?
Between 1969 and 1972, six Apollo missions successfully landed on the Moon. Each crew faced danger, discovery, and the thrill ...
Astronauts and scientists explain why living in space is almost impossible
Despite all the buzz around space tourism and giant rockets that can get us to the moon and beyond, life in space is still a ...
Astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin: Look back at their friendship in tweets, photos
Legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell, globally known for their history-making Apollo missions, enjoyed a ...
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Artemis 2 moon astronauts suit up and enter their Orion spacecraft together for 1st time
The four crewmembers of NASA's Artemis 2 mission donned their launch suits to conduct their first suited crew test together ...
NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy
The multi-modal tool, which includes speech, text and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.
On This Day: Astronauts carry out first emergency repair spacewalk
On Aug. 3, 2005, in the first emergency repair conducted in space, astronauts fixed a potentially dangerous problem by ...
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Astronauts on the ISS are Time Travelling!
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) experience the effects of time dilation as they travel at high speeds in low Earth orbit. This phenomenon shows how time can be perceived ...