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- August 5
- August 4
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- 'It sounds like an animal': NASA astronauts describe the Crew Dragon re-entry experience
- Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut food — and by changing how it is grown, we made it better
- Virgin Galactic delays commercial SpaceShipTwo spaceflights until 2021
- Satellites watch Tropical Storm Isaias batter eastern US
- The best place to see stars from Earth also happens to be the coldest place on the planet
- On This Day in Space! Aug. 4, 2007: Phoenix Mars Lander launched to Red Planet
- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will send the hunt for exoplanets into warp speed
- 'Space dad' jokes: NASA astronauts made prank calls after historic SpaceX splashdown
- August 3
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- Trump hails SpaceX's 1st splashdown with NASA astronauts. Obama, too.
- Cosmic singer Grace Potter will rock a space-themed set tonight. Watch it live online!
- Join astrophysicist Joe Pesce for an AMA about Mars, the cosmos (and more) in our Space.com Forums!
- On Mars, massive ice sheets — not rivers — may have carved ancient valleys
- Astra's 1st orbital launch attempt scuttled by wayward boat
- Virgin Galactic unveils Mach 3 design for supersonic passenger flights
- 'I prayed for this one,' SpaceX's Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts' splashdown success
- Pictures from space! Our image of the day
- August full moon 2020: Catch the 'Sturgeon Moon' with Jupiter and Saturn tonight
- Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiation
- 'Red Dwarf' cast gather for Comic-Con panel, latest installment now available in the US
- NASA hails success of SpaceX's 1st astronaut mission: 'This is just the beginning'
- August 2
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- Boaters gatecrash SpaceX's 1st splashdown with astronauts. 'We need to do better,' NASA chief says
- SpaceX Crew Dragon makes historic 1st splashdown to return NASA astronauts home
- SpaceX's historic Demo-2 Crew Dragon astronaut test flight: Full coverage
- WATCH LIVE at 4:30 pm ET today: Demo-2 astronauts discuss historic test flight
- SpaceX to return NASA astronauts to Earth for the 1st time today. You can watch it live.
- US Space Force hires a horse to boldly go where rockets can't. (The beach)
- Pentagon's secret, defunct UFO-hunting program may still exist
- SpaceX Crew Dragon undocks from space station to bring NASA astronauts home for 1st time
- August 1
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- Russian Proton rocket launches Express communications satellites in stunning nighttime liftoff (video, photos)
- SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying NASA astronauts to depart space station today. Here's how to watch it live.
- Best night sky events of August 2020 (stargazing maps)
- Space photos: The most amazing images this week!
- The top space stories of the week!
- The 1st NASA astronauts to come home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon are ready for anything. Even seasickness.