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'SALLY' at Sundance: NatGeo film to reveal 'hidden love' of 1st US woman in space

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A documentary about the life and love of America's first woman in space will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "SALLY," from National Geographic, reveals the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride.

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Emily Calandrelli celebrates in front of the Blue Origin capsule after becoming the 100th woman in space.

100th woman in space, Emily Calandrelli, stands up to 'small men' on the internet: 'I should have expected this.'

By Pandora Dewan published

The astronaut and MIT engineer's monumental milestone was marred by misogyny: "Instead of being on cloud nine, I’m crying in my seat."

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Donald "Deke" Slayton: Mercury astronaut who waited more than a decade to fly to space

By Tariq Malik last updated

Slayton made his first space flight in 1975 as the Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission.

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Building blocks: How China plans to make bricks on the moon for lunar habitats

By Andrew Jones published

Chinese scientists are developing the capability to build a moon base made of bricks formed from lunar soil.

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Two astronauts float in the busy white interior of a space station, holding equipment, wearing ppo masks.

Fruit flies in space! Chinese astronauts show off experiment on Tiangong space station (video)

By Andrew Jones published

China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts have some winged companions to oversee aboard the country's Tiangong space station — fruit flies, which arrived on a cargo ship on Nov. 15.

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Project Mercury: America's 1st crewed space program

By Tariq Malik last updated

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights.

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China's Tianzhou 7 spacecraft burns up in Earth's atmosphere to end cargo mission (video)

By Andrew Jones published

The Tianzhou 7 spacecraft undocked from China's Tiangong space station on Nov. 10 and reentered Earth's atmosphere at around 8:25 a.m. EST (1325 GMT) on Nov. 17.

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In this illustration, NASA astronauts drill into the Mars’ subsurface. The agency is creating new maps that show where ice is most likely to be easily accessible to future astronauts.

How does spaceflight affect astronauts' brains? There's good news and bad

By Victoria Corless published

Long-duration spaceflight affects some aspects of astronauts' cognitive health, but the observed impairment was not found to be lasting, a new study finds.

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a bald man in a light blue shirt and dark blue pants scrunches his body into a ball around a white piece of metal machinery, floating in a busy spacecraft.

How do astronauts weigh themselves in space?

By Keith Cooper published

Space mysteries In microgravity, astronauts must measure their mass, not their weight, which they can do with two devices on the ISS.

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Photo of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launching the NS-20 space tourist mission in March 2022.

Blue Origin space tourist launches: Live mission updates

By Mike Wall last updated

Blue Origin's next space tourist mission hasn't yet been announced yet. Here are live updates of what we know.

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