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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
Biospherian 2nd crew (Courtesy of Institute of Ecotechnics)

The inside story of Biosphere 2

Kathelin Gray
Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

Nicole Karlis

"Away": Ways to die on a mission to Mars

Hanh Nguyen
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Elon Musk, and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen shortly before a scheduled launch at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. (Photo illustration by Salon/Paul Hennessy/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media/Saul Martinez/Getty Images)

"Historic" SpaceX launch not so historic

Matthew Rozsa
This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (JAXA via AP)

Sending robot "skins" to space

Shi En Kim - Massive Science
Avenue 5 (Alex Bailey/HBO)

What's on the uncool "Avenue 5" menu

Ashlie D. Stevens
(AP/Reed Saxon)

Billionaires rush to explore space

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
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Picture taken from the Apollo XI Lunar Module (LM) showing the flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin on the surface of the moon, 21 July 1969. (- / NASA / AFP)

Should "Moon history" be preserved?

Nicole Karlis
The ET highway was established by the Nevada Legislature in 1996 and runs along the eastern border of Area 51. (AP/Laura Rauch)

Half a million plan to storm Area 51

Nicole Karlis

Save 30% on this levitating desk lamp

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Why spaceflight is bad for your brain

Nicole Karlis
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"Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race" by Brian May and David J. Eicher; Earthrise (MIT Press/NASA)

"Earthrise" (and Apollo 8) turns 50

David J. Eicher, Brian May
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Land claims in space

Frans von der Dunk - The Conversation
Astronaut Sally Ride on the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. (NASA/Wikicommons)

Remembering the first woman in space

Bonnie J. Dunbar - The Conversation
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (AP/Getty/Salon)

Team Trump: Lost in space

Nicole Karlis
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A roadmap to superhumans

Keith A. Spencer
Astronaut (Getty/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Why humans aren't ready for space travel

Nicole Karlis
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Nikki Giovanni's dreams for kids

D. Watkins
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Jim Bridenstine (United States Congress/Getty/jamesbenet)

Trump's NASA pick hates science

Keith A. Spencer
This image provided by NASA shows the planet Mars. A group of NASA-funded researchers are entering an isolated geodesic dome perched on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior for future long-term space exploration, including future trips to Mars. The six crew members entered a dome structure on the Big Island's Mauna Loa Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, and will spend eight months together in the research facility without physical contact with any other human beings. (NASA via AP) (AP)

Musk's unrealistic Mars plan

Andrew Maynard - The Conversation
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TV guide for outer space

Jan Van den Buick - The Conversation
(NASA)

The Voyager record

Jason Wright - The Conversation
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