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Will We Ever Stop Using Rockets to Get to Space?
August 19, 2018 | ArticleOn March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Massachusetts, American engineer Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. The flight lasted a mere 2.5 seconds and ended anticlimactically 181 feet away in a snow-covered cabbage field.
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Space Force Talk Drawing Attention to the Need for International Norms
August 19, 2018 | ArticleThe announcement by Vice President Mike Pence last week that the Pentagon will stand up a Space Force suddenly has drawn attention to the issue of international space security.
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This NASA Video of the Moon's Lunar Landmarks Is Simply Amazing
August 19, 2018 | ArticleA new NASA video tour of the moon captures breathtaking views of the lunar surface.
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'Hard-Rock Excavation' Begins for Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile
August 19, 2018 | ArticleThe Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) has now entered the "hard-rock excavation" phase, which will make way for the huge structure's foundations, leaders of the $1 billion project announced on Tuesday (Aug. 14).
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On This Day in Space! Aug. 19, 1997: 1st Filipino Satellite Launches into Orbit
August 19, 2018 | ArticleOn Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series.
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Get an Up-Close Look at Boeing's New CST-100 Starliner Spaceship (Photos)
August 18, 2018 | ArticleBoeing recently gave journalists a behind-the-scenes look at the company's new Starliner capsule, which could start carrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station as early as next year.
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Melting Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Is Even More Dangerous to the Climate, NASA Warns
August 18, 2018 | ArticleScientists have worried for years now that climate change will free carbon trapped in frozen soil in the Arctic, triggering faster climate change — but now they believe abrupt thawing below lakes is even more dangerous.
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Photo Tour: Inside Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Spaceship Hangar
August 18, 2018 | Image AlbumTake a look inside the CST-100 Starliner hangar, where Boeing is building the private space capsules that will fly NASA astronauts and more into space!
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'Foreign Object' on Mars Spotted by Curiosity Rover Is Just a Rock (Photo)
August 18, 2018 | ArticleOn Monday (Aug. 13), Curiosity photographed an odd, flat object that mission team members initially thought might have fallen off the car-size robot. But the "debris" turned out to be a Red Planet rock.
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Exos Aerospace Reschedules First Suborbital Launch
August 18, 2018 | ArticleExos Aerospace, a Texas company developing a reusable suborbital rocket, now plans to carry out a first flight of its vehicle in late August as it sets its sights on a follow-on orbital vehicle.
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