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Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight. Discovery flew to space 39 times, ...

An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...

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When Columbia was destroyed during reentry in 2003, a small piece of foam was ultimately blamed—but investigators also asked whether a daring in-orbit rescue was ever truly possible. This segment ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the architects of the Discovery moving plan, said that Isaacman is on board.

After the International Space Station is decommissioned, China and possibly Russia will have active space stations in low Earth orbit. America will not.

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A computer-generated image of the football-field-sized International Space Station. Editor at Large The last time no representative of the human race was in space Bill Clinton was in his final year in ...