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Private mission with NASA, Saudi astronauts docks with ISS

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Space

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Space

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Space

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Space

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Space

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NASA
Space

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NASA opened for business on 1 October 1958, two months after its creation by the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.

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Space

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International space station
Space

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The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest human-made thing in space and the third-brightest object in the sky.

harvest moon
Space

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Asteroid
Space

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Venus
Space

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Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like Earth. It’s about the same size, is made of about the same stuff and formed around the same star.

international space station spacewalk
Space

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Space

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NASA
Space

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Space

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Space

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Space

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Space

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Juno Cam, Jupiter
Space

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Researchers used data from NASA’s Juno probe and found that the electric currents that go through Jupiter’s magnetosphere aren’t acting the way it should.

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Space

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Space

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Space

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Space

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch
Space

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will be carrying the RADARSAT Constellation Mission from Space Complex Launch-4 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base today.

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