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Three awesome Earth photos captured from space this week

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NASA lets you meet its Mars rover and helicopter here on Earth

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SpaceX ‘Gateway to Mars’ video shows off its Starship spacecraft

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Watch NASA’s trailer for SpaceX’s Crew-3 launch on Saturday

The four astronauts heading to the space station in October 2021.

Blue Origin wants to build a space station for ‘exotic hospitality’

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Fly through the space station in this awesome 360-degree video

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Hubble Space Telescope captures a peculiar pair of galaxies

This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies which lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Arp 86 is composed of the two galaxies NGC 7752 and NGC 7753 – NGC 7753 is the large spiral galaxy dominating this image, and NGC 7752 is its smaller companion.

Crunchy algae, anyone? NASA shares ideas for food in space

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur enjoys fresh food on the International Space Station.

Boeing Starliner valve issue may have been caused by humid Florida weather

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to be flown on Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is seen in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 12, 2021. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, OFT-2 is a critical developmental milestone on the company’s path to fly crew missions for NASA.

Hawaiian telescope snaps an image of a recently formed baby planet

The summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i at night, showing the two Keck telescope domes in the front right.

Hubble had a ringside seat to observe a star going supernova

Astronomers recently witnessed supernova SN 2020fqv explode inside the interacting Butterfly galaxies, located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Researchers quickly trained NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on the aftermath.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is in cruise mode, but solar array issue persists

At 24 feet (7.3 meters) across each, Lucy’s two solar panels underwent initial deployment tests in January 2021. In this photo, a technician at Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado, inspects one of Lucy’s arrays during its first deployment. These massive solar arrays will power the Lucy spacecraft throughout its entire 4-billion-mile, 12-year journey through space as it heads out to explore Jupiter’s elusive Trojan asteroids

NASA will send its uncrewed Artemis mission to the moon in February 2022

NASA's Orion spacecraft is fully stacked on the Space Launch System rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Mars helicopter is back in action and will attempt high rotor speed flight today

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera during its 13th flight on Sep. 5, 2021 (Sol 193 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 12:06:30.

NASA challenges kids to design a moon-digging robot

NASA poster for its lunabotics contest.

NASA photos show Orion capsule atop its mega moon rocket

NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket.

NASA’s take on future space travel is a wild sci-fi ride

A space traveler kayaks on the Titan moon.

NASA time-lapse shows Mars rover speeding across planet’s surface

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NASA’s Mars sounds open up whole new world for scientists

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See the 42 biggest asteroids in our solar system in stunning detail

Forty-two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter (orbits not to scale).

James Webb Space Telescope arrives in French Guiana ahead of launch

The Webb telescope's journey to space began with engineers packing the telescope into its protective transport container. The container was then moved from Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, to Seal Beach, California. Waiting at Seal Beach was the ship that would carry Webb to French Guiana.

Chinese crew launches to new space station — including station’s first woman

Chinese astronauts Zhai Zhigang (C), Wang Yaping (R) and Ye Guangfu will carry out the Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission, and Zhai will be the commander, announced the China Manned Space Agency at a press conference on Oct. 14, 2021.

Russian cosmonaut and film crew returned safely to Earth from space station

The Soyuz MS-18 crew ship is pictured docked to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

Hubble spots persistent water vapor on Europa — but only in one hemisphere

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Watch a Russian film crew depart from the ISS tonight

The ten station inhabitants are gathered together in the Unity module for a meal and a portrait. In the front row (from left) are, Mark Vande Hei, Klim Shipenko, Pyotr Dubrov, and Megan McArthur. In the back row (from left) are, Akihiko Hoshide, Anton Shkaplerov, Thomas Pesquet, Yulia Peresild, Oleg Novitskiy, and Shane Kimbrough.

Perseverance rover captures stunning panoramic image of Mars’s South Séítah

Cropped version of a mosaic composed of 84 pictures taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.

Errant thruster firing causes scare on International Space Station

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‘Like diamonds in the sky’: NASA’s Lucy mission launches to study asteroids

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen in this 2 minute and 30 second exposure photograph as it launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake – the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution – Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system.

NASA wants you to appreciate the moon on Saturday night

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Virgin Galactic delays the launch of its commercial space tourism service

Virgin Galactic's space plane heading to the edge of space.

Blue Origin releases first footage showing Shatner in space

The crew of NS-18 at apogee. (October 13, 2021)

How to watch Blue Origin launch William Shatner into space

New Shepard lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas for the NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.

Shatner admits he’s ‘a little frightened’ about Wednesday’s rocket ride

William Shatner ahead of his rocket ride.

NASA video reveals complexity of Mars Sample Return mission

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Watch a year of life on the space station squeezed into 60 seconds

Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station.

Take a ride on the space station from Texas to Maine

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Mystery of a strange, mirrored double galaxy solved using Hubble data

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How to watch NASA’s asteroid explorer Lucy launch this week

Artist’s illustration of the Lucy concept.

New Chang’e-5 lunar sample includes youngest volcanic moon rocks to date

A symbol marks the spot where the Chang'e-5 spacecraft landed and collected samples on the moon.

Hubble snaps image of two galaxies that are merging to become one

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined, they have a collective name – Arp 91. Their delicate galactic dance takes place more than 100 million light-years from Earth. The two galaxies comprising Arp 91 have their own names: the lower galaxy, which looks like a bright spot, is NGC 5953, and the oval-shaped galaxy to the upper right is NGC 5954. In reality, both of them are spiral galaxies, but their shapes appear very different because of their orientation with respect to Earth.

Meet NASA’s Crew-3, who are getting ready for a Halloween launch to the ISS

The official crew portrait of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission: (from left) Commander Raja Chari and pilot Thomas Mashburn, both NASA astronauts. Mission specialist Matthias Maurer of ESA (European Space Agency). Mission specialist Kayla Barron of NASA.

Test of Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule pushed to next year

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to be flown on Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is seen in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 12, 2021. Part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, OFT-2 is a critical developmental milestone on the company’s path to fly crew missions for NASA.

How to watch a livestream of investigation of ice planet Uranus this weekend

The final image of Uranus taken by the Voyager 2 space probe on 25 January 1986. The spacecraft was about 1 million kilometres from the planet at the time.

Perseverance confirms Jezero Crater was once a lake, could have supported life

Caption: Images from the Perseverance rover confirm that Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake, researchers say. This Mastcam-Z enhanced color photo mosaic shows a butte near Jezero crater informally dubbed Kodiak by the rover team.

Space food isn’t all tasteless slop sucked through a straw

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Meet the bold and brilliant Latinos of NASA

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Watch this 360 video tour of the space station’s ‘beating heart’

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This is what a dinner party looks like on the space station

International Space Station over Earth.

This awesome sight made the ISS crew dash to the Cupola

The International Space Station’s solar arrays provide power for the orbiting laboratory. NASA will install a total of six new roll out solar arrays in front of the existing arrays at 1A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, and 4B to augment the power. During the Aug. 24 spacewalk, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will install the modification kit on the 4A power channel, where the next new roll out solar array will be installed in 2022.

Check out NASA’s top skywatching tips for this month

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