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Lego's NASA Space Shuttle Discovery set with Hubble is a space geek's dream (review)

I'm a millennial who wasn't even born when the space shuttle first flew, but as a kid of the early 1980s I was lucky enough to follow many of its missions until NASA retired the fleet in 2011. Naturally, as a Canadian far from the launching pad in Florida, I first ...

Busy month of crew rotations on tap at International Space Station

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, commander of the Crew Dragon "Resilience" spaceship, will be joined by crewmates Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker for the fully automated 45-minute relocation maneuver.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snaps scenic selfie at 'Mont Mercou' (photo)

Earlier in March, the rover arrived at a scenic rock formation as it traversed the slopes of Mount Sharp — a 3-mile-tall (5 km) mountain located at the center of Gale Crater, which Curiosity has been climbing since September 2014.

China's Tianwen 1 mission targets mid-May landing on Mars

Tianwen 1 will release its lander and rover from its position in orbit around Mars. Most Mars landers, such as NASA's Perseverance rover, enter the Martian atmosphere on a direct course from Earth. Those trajectories typically have preset landing dates tied to ...

Ingenuity Mars helicopter: The historic journey to fly on another planet

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It has been 117 years since Orville Wright took flight in Flyer 1 for 12 seconds on a historic December day in 1903 at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In the image captured by John ...

China launches a second Gaofen-12 Earth observation satellite

The Gaofen-12 (02) satellite — the second of its kind — launched at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT, or 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, March 31 local time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, according to state media. The rocket used was a Long ...

NASA delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter's first flight to April 11

Ingenuity, which flew to Mars tucked into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the planet Feb. 18, is set to make history with the first controlled, powered flight through another planet's atmosphere.

Ingenuity's 'Wright Stuff': A Piece of the Wright Flyer Will Soar on Mars

Perseverance was the first ever spacecraft to perform an entirely autonomous ultraprecise landing on another planet. In coming months it will also be the first to attempt to produce pure oxygen from the world's thin carbon-dioxide atmosphere via its experimental ...

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

Dinosaur and fossil aficionados are intimately familiar with the meteorite strike that drove Tyrannosaurus rex and all nonavian dinosaurs to extinction around 66 million years ago. But it is often overlooked that the impact also wiped out entire ecosystems.

LEGO designer reveals hidden details in Space Shuttle Discovery set

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One of the first challenges that Madge took on was how to build in a mechanism to deploy the shuttle's landing gear without impinging on size of the payload bay that needed to hold the set's included model of the Hubble Space Telescope.