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Mysterious, beautiful, and unrelentingly vast, space is truly the final frontier. Explore fun space facts, discoveries, statistics, and much more here.

iss056e011980 (June 14, 2018) --- NASA astronaut Drew Feustel is pictured tethered to the International Space Station just outside of the Quest airlock during a spacewalk he conducted with fellow NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold (out of frame) on June 14, 2018. During the six-hour, 49-minute spacewalk the duo installed high-definition cameras to provide enhanced views of commercial crew spacecraft, including the SpaceX Crew Dragon and the Boeing Starliner, as they approach and dock with the…

iss054e000136 (Dec. 14, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft that brought home Expedition 53 crew members Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, is pictured moments before undocking from the Rassvet module.

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Sputnik 1 ("Satellite-1"), was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. This surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War.

This fantastic — or perhaps fantastical — image of a space shuttle launching through the clouds has been getting a lot of comments on the social media circuits. But is it real? No, it is a composite of two different images put together by photographer Richard Silvera. “The picture of the sky and clouds was … Continue reading "Incredible Space Shuttle Picture: Is it Real?"

Speculation mounts over agency's forthcoming revelation, with some suggesting project may be to extract samples of comet nucleus or journey to Saturn’s largest moon

Alan Bean (American, b. 1932) Pete Conrad and the American flag on the Ocean of Storms, Apollo 12, November 1969. Auction: 3048M | Lot: 266 | Estimate: $2,000-3,000

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was my schooldays hero. I remember that I had pasted many of his photographs in my notebook, which were published in newspapers and magazines. As a collector of postal stamps, I always searched for stamps portraying this great astronaut, as well as stamps related to Apollo 11 Mission. I also remember

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

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