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| UpdatedNASA marks the 50th anniversary of its Moon program's fatal Apollo launch pad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test.
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Hundreds of believers in life beyond Earth attended the Close Encounters Conference in Byron Bay.
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| UpdatedSpaceX carries out its first mission since a fiery explosion destroyed one of its rockets in September last year, launching a Falcon 9 rocket and successfully landing it on a platform in the Pacific Ocean.
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| UpdatedAustralia is seen from Mars in a new image released by NASA of Earth and its moon, taken from the red planet about 205 million kilometres away.
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| UpdatedThis year could see China expand its presence in space amid the ongoing race for space tourism and search for dark matter and life-supporting planets, a space flight analyst says.
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| UpdatedIt was a big year in science — with tremendous advances in our understanding of the world around us from the ancient universe to the future of artificial intelligence and designer genes. See how well you do at our quiz recapping the weird and wonderful year in science.
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| UpdatedA Japanese rocket containing 100 experiments created by Australian high school students for astronauts from NASA to test is on its way to the International Space Station.
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Fifty-six year-old American astronaut Peggy Whitson now holds the title of the oldest women to fly in space after she and a multi-national crew blasted off for the International Space Station on Thursday.
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Fifty-six-year-old American astronaut Peggy Whitson is now the oldest woman to fly in space after she and a multinational crew blasted off for the International Space Station.
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NASA astronaut Terry Virts has spent 213 days in space, and holds the record for taking more photos from space than any other astronaut. He's in Australia to talk about perspective.
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Katie Mack's grandfather, Captain Willard "Sam" Houston had a lot of stories, but there was one that transfixed her: about how he worked with NASA and saved the crew of Apollo 11.
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A Russian Soyuz space capsule lands in Kazakhstan, bringing back three astronauts from the US, Japan and Russia back to Earth from a 115-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
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| UpdatedNew images from a NASA satellite indicate the experimental Schiaparelli lander created a shallow crater on Mars when it plummeted to the surface last week.
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| UpdatedMapping of gravity data from the Moon by NASA's GRAIL mission may finally reveal how a huge bullseye-shaped basin formed on the Moon, say scientists.
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| UpdatedSpaceX CEO Elon Musk hosts a Reddit "Ask Me Anything", answering questions about the progress and logistics of the company's plans to colonise Mars.
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| UpdatedNASA images from Mars suggest a missing European space probe was destroyed in a fiery crash after plummeting to the surface of the Red Planet, scientists say.
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Thrusters intended to slow a European lander as it neared Mars fired for less time than expected before contact with the vehicle was lost, officials say, leaving scientists uncertain whether it touched down safely or broke apart.
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NASA Deep Space Network's Glen Nagle discusses status of ExoMars expedition
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| UpdatedAlthough fears grow for the ExoMars lander, scientists say the mission to Mars has been a success. Here's what we know so far.
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| UpdatedThe signal from the experimental Schiaparelli probe cuts off before its landing on Mars, which a senior European Space Agency official says is "not a good sign".
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| UpdatedChina's Shenzhou 11 manned spacecraft sucessfully docks with China's Tiangong 2 space lab, and two astronauts have entered the lab. The astronauts will remain in the space station for 30 days and spend a total of 33 days in space.
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A US aerospace company signs on to be part of a project aiming to launch rockets from central Queensland.
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