Space Mountain at 50: Five nods to NASA from the Walt Disney World ride
The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there ...
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NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
(CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present alternatives to the original ...
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NASA is fighting to return samples from Mars. Here are the two ways it might do it in the 2030s
(CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present alternatives to the original ...
Carter's UFO hounded him for years. Few knew his expertise in astronomy.
Though Carter never claimed to have spotted aliens or a flying saucer — to him this was literally an unknown object in the air — people snickered and mistook his UFO sighting as such. Skeptics, who ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its closest approach to the sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe beams home 1st detailed update after record-breaking approach to the sun
On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission ...
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Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest-ever approach to the sun
NASA's mission to "touch" the sun has confirmed that it survived its record-breaking closest approach to the sun's surface on Dec. 24. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles ...
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Big Rockets, a Big Telescope and Big Changes in Space Await in 2025
By Michael Roston and Katrina Miller Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed ... U.S. military and spacecraft for NASA, including orbiters to Mars ...
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Proposed NASA Chief Jared Isaacman Sees Millions Of Spacefarers Ahead
Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, one of the world’s great space philanthropists and now set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners lifting off from Planet Earth in ...
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NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the sun
NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history on December 24 when it flew closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 930 ...