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HEROES OF SPACE
The first astronaut to log more than 1,000 hours on
This groundbreaking astronomer helped us discover our place in the universe
On 23 July 1999, Space Shuttle Columbia launched its heaviest-ever payload: the Chandra X-ray Observatory, a new flagship telescope for NASA. It is the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope, capable o
The world’s biggest digital camera telescope has started ...
Flight’s glamorous beginnings
This week the AP time machine travels back to this month in 1944 and 1981
Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia
