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To observe a SpaceX launch in person, as I did in February, is to witness a stunning and galvanic event. Two of the company’s greatest feats occur in quick succession. First, there’s the launch itself ...

During Apollo 13, a near-exact replica helped engineers solve a life-threatening issue. Today, NASA still uses spacecraft duplicates to troubleshoot problems. Iran responds to Trump's threat of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Toilet plumbing problems, email glitches and issues phoning home: Astronauts are just like us! Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (it seems to be fixed now). By Katrina Miller While in orbit around Earth, the Artemis II crew ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover uses AI and digital twins to safely navigate Mars's challenging terrain. Digital twins and AI help NASA monitor and predict conditions for the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 22, 2026.

Space travel is one of the most hazardous things a human being can endure, and not just for the obvious reason of launching into an airless vacuum at 25,000 mph. The human body is an extremely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An independent review of the first — and so far, only — piloted flight of Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft concluded that ...