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How Science Fiction Tests Out Different Futures in Space

Science fiction not only imagines different futures in space, it's a place where debates play out about what the future of space should entail. Some of your favorite sci-fi stories explore questions ...
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National Air and Space Museum Opens Five New Galleries July 28

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Mapping the Moon with the Lunar Orbiter

If you are traveling somewhere new, you are more than likely going to need some form of map to get there. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave the United States a mandate: Before the decade was out ...
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Charles Duke's Family Photograph on the Moon

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Who Gets to Send People (and Spacecraft) to Space?

Looking back at the history of spaceflight, it’s tempting to see things as bound to turn out the way they did. “Of course, the United States would land the first person on the Moon.” “Of course, we ...
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Trailblazers in Conversation: Astronauts Fisher, Seddon, and Sullivan (Glenn Lecture)

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Sleepaway Camp, But Make It Space

Growing up in the 90s, I watched a lot of Nickelodeon television shows. I especially enjoyed the game shows where “kidtestants” competed in slime-covered obstacle courses to win a grand prize—an ...
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This Space Age Tableware is Now a Museum Collectible

A passion for space exploration influenced how one family set the dinner table. As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was ...
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A Robot Could Be an Astronaut's Best Friend

When they needed a helping hand in orbit, astronauts could count on NASA’s reliable Robonaut. Astronauts and cosmonauts stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) from 2011 to 2018 shared ...
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First Class of Women Air Force Pilots

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Human-Powered Flying Machine Design by George Cayley

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