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NASA wants volunteers for a year-long Mars mission. There's a catch.

The bad news: you don’t actually get to go to Mars, it’s a simulation. Or is that good news?

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International Space Station incident was much worse than you thought

A Russian module accidentally fired its thrusters and knocked the ISS out of alignment last week. Now we know just how out of position it was.

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Blue Origin protest over SpaceX's lunar lander NASA contract rejected

The Blue Origin founder said NASA was required to make multiple awards after Elon Musk's SpaceX was awarded a €2.5 billion contract.

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Russian module knocks International Space Station out of position

A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position when it accidentally fired its thrusters.

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Musk's SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for Jupiter moon mission

SpaceX lands NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa

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Squid in space could help NASA keep astronauts fit and healthy

NASA researchers say the squid's relationship with the bacteria that make them glow could hold the key to keeping astronaut immune systems strong.

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NASA and ESA to test nudging asteroids off collision course with Earth

It's World Asteroid Day! And to celebrate, Euronews looks at two missions launching into space that will see how potentially dangerous asteroids could be nudged off course by flying a spacecraft into them.

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Watch: French and US astronauts spacewalk to boost ISS power supply

Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough ventured out of the ISS on Wednesday but spacesuit problems prevented the astronauts from completing the installation of new solar panels.

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Sleeping fish hold the key to surviving manned missions to Mars

Zebrafish are remarkably similar to humans, especially when it comes to sleep. Could they help us travel deeper into space?

Italy

First European female astronaut to command International Space Station

Samantha Cristoforetti was the first Italian woman in space and only the third woman in the world to have spent time on the station.

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ESA wants satellites around the Moon to make manned missions easier

More than a dozen European firms have been contracted by the European Space Agency to draw up proposals for a shared lunar telecoms and navigation service.

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The space telescope that might unlock the secrets of the universe

NASA’s new telescope will probe the history of our cosmos and whether there is life out there in the universe when it's launched in October.

Green News

At 1.6 billion years old, this is the oldest water in the world

What could the discovery of the oldest water in the world tell us about life on other planets?

USA

From Gaza to Nasa

From Gaza to NASA - the Palestinian engineer working on the Mars project team

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Watch: SpaceX lands Starship rocket at fifth time of trying

The previous four attempted test flights of the rocket SpaceX wants to use to send people to the moon and Mars ended in fiery explosions.

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Company producing oxygen from Moon soil is making Mars missions easier

Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are determined to get human beings to the Moon and Mars. This company, which has found a way to produce oxygen from soil on the Moon, may help them to get us there.

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Is this Turkish lake how Mars looked over a billion years ago?

Lake Salda has long attracted visitors. But last year, it caught the attention of NASA researchers who think it could help identify ancient life on the Red Planet.

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SpaceX rocket lifts-off as French astronaut heads to ISS

The SpaceX launch, delayed from Thursday due to poor weather, will deliver four astronauts to the International Space Station with a recycled capsule and rocket.

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Out of this world! French cuisine set to be served up in space

Dishes include lobster with quinoa and dehydrated Breton seaweed, and salmon and eggplant.

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Watch NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter take its first flight on Mars

NASA made history today in pulling off the first controlled, powered flight of an aircraft on another planet. The Ingenuity helicopter travelled to the Red Planet attached to the underside of the Perseverance Rover which landed on Mars in February of this year.