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NASA Announces Winners of the 'Space Poop Challenge'

Last year NASA asked for help dealing with space poop, and the public came through.

On This Day in 1971, Apollo 14 Golfers Arrived on the Moon

The next day, Alan Shepard swung his smuggled six-iron.

The crew posing for their official portrait on November 15, 1985.

Remembering the 7 Challenger Astronauts

When the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, there were seven astronauts on board whose lives were tragically cut short.

The International Space Station Is Getting Its First African-American Crewmember

Jeanette Epps is going to make history.

NASA Wants to Make a Mobile Water Factory on the Moon

The goal is to harness and use available resources on other worlds.

A Group of Suitcase-Sized Satellites Will Transform Hurricane Tracking

CYGNSS "will improve our knowledge of how hurricanes grow so that we can better prepare and protect people in the path of each hurricane as it comes."

Will NASA Be Able to Stop a Real-Life Armageddon?

First we find it. Then we try to move it. And if that doesn't work, we blow it up.

The Photo That Showed the World What the Hubble Space Telescope Could Do

The unusual decision to photograph nothing in particular revealed the early universe in all its glory.

NASA Will Grab Asteroid Dirt to Bring Back to Earth. Here's How

Thank a robotic arm and a nitrogen gas burst.

Dream of Being an Astronaut? You Might Want to Work on Your Handshake

To prepare for life in zero gravity, astronauts make sure their arms and hands are in tip-top shape.

International Space Station. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

NASA's Research Is Now Freely Available Online

More than 850 articles have been uploaded so far, and more are on the way.

What Would Happen to Your Body If You Stayed in Bed Forever?

Not good things, to our dismay.

Today in 1969, Apollo 11 Splashed Down

Then President Nixon chatted with the astronauts while they were in a quarantine capsule.

7 Spacecraft NASA Has Landed on Mars

The Viking I lander touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976. It was just the first of many NASA missions to the red planet.

How Playtex Helped Win the Space Race

Cross their heart: The bra and girdle company convinced NASA they could protect astronauts from moon dangers.

Juno Captures Its First Image of Jupiter From Orbit

This is the first of many images that will come from the spacecraft.

NASA via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Space Travel May Squeeze Astronauts’ Eyeballs

Four out of every five astronauts on long-term missions return to Earth with a condition called visual impairment intracranial pressure syndrome.

Juno Is the First Solar-Powered Spacecraft in the Outer Solar System

From an engineering standpoint, Juno's July 4 arrival at Jupiter is fitting, as the endeavor is a sort of declaration of independence from the required use of nuclear power in missions to outer planets.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory via YouTube

The Juno Mission: NASA Celebrates Independence Day by Invading Jupiter

After a five-year journey, Juno will be ensnared by Jupiter's gravity and orbit the planet 33 times, then plunge beneath the clouds and disintegrate.

How an Apollo Astronaut Almost Lost His Wedding Ring in Space

The recovery was unbelievably lucky.

Watch NASA's Upcoming Booster Rocket Test Live Tomorrow Morning

The booster will not be fired again until test flights in 2018.

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Lands at Houston Comic Convention

Houston residents spotted the capsule mockup traveling down the highway this week.

This NASA Satellite From the ‘70s Looks Like a Space-Bound Disco Ball

...it's also been a valuable source for scientific research and discovery for four decades.

Meet the Unsung "Rocket Girls" Who Helped Get NASA Into Space

These "human computers" were an integral part of the early space program, but were largely unheralded.

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