Space
No crew planned for NASA’s first Space Launch System mission
The first launch of SLS will go forward without astronauts aboard, despite a White House request that NASA add crew to a planned 2019 mission
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Physics
Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space
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Environment
Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles
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Humans
What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?
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Space
Cassini takes first plunge between Saturn’s rings
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Space
Quickest we could visit another star is 69 years – here’s how
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Space
Satellite swarms could increase space junk risk by 50 per cent
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Space
NASA funds radical Pluto hopper and cosmic echolocation concepts
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Space
Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control
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Space
Watching SpaceX’s historic relaunch and landing of a used rocket
Hundreds gathered last night to watch SpaceX attempt to launch and land an orbital rocket that had already been used – a first in space history. Amy Thompson joined the crowds
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Space
SpaceX test-fires engines ahead of rocket re-launch
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Space
ExoMars dips into the Martian atmosphere to sniff for life
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Space
Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium
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Space
NASA’s new budget is big on other worlds but ignores our own
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