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Astronaut and aviation pioneer Eileen Collins shares her story at this TPR's Think Science event.
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Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.
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NASA says the International Space Station will stop operating at the end of 2030. After that, the space agency plans to crash the football field-sized craft into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.
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The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.
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The James Webb Space Telescope will let astronomers peer farther into space than ever before, to see what galaxies looked like when the universe was newly born.
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It's NASA's first time growing peppers in space. And after they were harvested, NASA astronauts got to sample the crop sprinkled on tacos at the International Space Station.
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At the peak of the Perseids this week, up to 100 meteors an hour can be caught shooting across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks in their wake.
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Vanessa Wyche has worked for NASA since 1989, and has held multiple key leadership positions with the agency. Now, she will be the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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A late Laredoan who was key in Apollo 13's successful return to Earth won an online NASA contest to fly around the moon. A mannequin will be named after NASA electrical engineer, Arturo B. Campos.
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The Burnet High School Space Dawgs culinary team finished in first place out of 10 schools to feed astronauts on the International Space Station.