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Watch: Rocket carrying Europe’s oldest astronaut blasts-off into space

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Veteran astronaut set to blast into space for third time

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, aged 60, is about to go into space for the third time making him Europe's oldest astronaut.

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Neil Armstrong's 'space bag' sells for 1.5 million dollars

A bag said to have been used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to bring the first samples of moon dust back to Earth has been sold to an anonymous bidder for 1.8 million US dollars.

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Watch: Rocket’s launch captured on video from space

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Voyaging back into space at 60: Paolo Nespoli

The Italian astronaut is about to embark on his third space mission, this time to the International Space Station.

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The Apollo Missions: Legends of Space

Franck de Winne, Head of the European Astronaut Centre, talks about the impact of the Apollo missions.

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Facing the furnace: BepiColombo mission to visit Mercury

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission is preparing to visit Mercury, a mysterious planet the size of the Moon and as hot as a pizza oven

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SpaceX Dragon released from ISS

SpaceX Dragon is successfully detached from the International Space Station.

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China: Heavy-lift rocket launch fails in flight

After what seemed to be a textbook lift-off, an anomaly was detected authorities say

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Spacewalk legend Leonov's plunge into the unknown

Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut and first man to walk in space describes what it was like to be the first to drift free in the empty ocean of space around him.

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Return to earth for France's astronaut photographer

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Here comes the sun: NASA's hottest mission starts next year

NASA is launching a probe whose mission will be to get closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has.

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Cassini-Huygens's extraordinary journey around Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens mission has landed a probe on Titan, discovered an icy ocean on Enceladus, and is right now flying between the rings of Saturn and the planet itself. We head to the UK to find out

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NASA scrambles emergency spacewalk to repair ISS

The International Space Station has undergone urgent repairs after a critical relay box abruptly failed.

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New Inmarsat satellite in orbit

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched into space an Inmarsat communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday (May…

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[Watch] the glow of Europe by night from Space

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has published a new video of Europe from the International Space Station by night.

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Chinese students sample moon life in 'long-stay' simulator

Student volunteers are spending up to 200 days each in a simulated space cabin in China to test future astronauts’ ability to stay for extended periods on the…

USA

Secret space plane lands in Florida

The US military's experimental X-37B space plane has returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Mission Accomplished

SpaceX successfully launched its NROL-76 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 1 after the initial scheduled lift-off a day earlier was delayed due to a technical…

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SpaceX boosts US spy satellite into orbit

A classified spy satellite has been boosted into orbit for the US military.