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Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the code that put humans on the moon, has died at 90 🕊️
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NEWS 🚨: Four NASA volunteers have now spent an entire year sealed inside a fake Mars base
They've grown crops, done simulated Marswalks and have only talked to their families through delayed emails
They get out October 31st
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NEWS 🚨: This morning's Falcon 9 launch created a glowing space jellyfish over Florida
The Beach From Florida
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6 years ago today, NASA's OSIRIS-REx touched down on asteroid Bennu and grabbed a piece of it
It became NASA's first asteroid sample ever brought back to Earth
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NEWS 🚨: NASA's Jared Isaacman will give an update Friday on speeding up the return to the Moon 🌕
Artemis III was about 90 days behind schedule last month
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BREAKING 🚨: An 11-foot chunk of what's widely believed to be a Chinese rocket crashed in a Minnesota farmer's cornfield
No injuries were reported, and the object’s origin has not yet been officially confirmed
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Source 🔗 arstechnica.com/space/2026/1…
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NEWS 🚨: Japan's mission to grab a piece of a Mars moon and bring it home launches TODAY at 3:41 p.m. ET 🚀
Phobos samples are due back on Earth in 2031
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BREAKING 🚨: Elon Musk says he'll give one SpaceX share to every kid in America next year 🚀
CNBC estimates that's about $10.5 billion worth of stock, and Musk says it's "the first of many"
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9 years ago today, astronomers spotted ʻOumuamua,’ the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system ☄️
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NEWS 🚨: Japan's mission to bring home the first piece of a Mars moon launches tomorrow
It would be the first sample ever returned from Phobos
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Astronomers have found the first known star that would appear green to the human eye
It's a dead star and it's glow comes from swallowing pieces of its own shattered planets
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NASA says Orion's heat shield passed its Artemis II test, with about 10 times less damage than last time 🔥
Artemis I (left) vs. Artemis II (right)
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NASA launched Cassini 29 years ago today, the spacecraft that gave us our most iconic views of Saturn
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NEWS 🚨: All four Artemis II astronauts who flew around the Moon have now officially retired from spaceflight
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Christina Koch is taking a new role as NASA's acting deputy chief engineer.
According to space.com she's the last of the four to leave active flight duty 🫡
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