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October 21, 2015

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft wakes up for Pluto encounter in 2015

Pluto, get ready for your close-up: A NASA spacecraft has roused itself from the final slumber of its nine-year trek to the edge of the solar system, setting the stage for the first close encounter with Pluto next year.

October 21, 2015

How NASA's landmark Orion spacecraft test flight will work

NASA is planning to launch a test mission for its newest space capsule designed to eventually bring humans deeper into space than ever before.

October 21, 2015

Pew, Pew, Pew! NASA space lasers to map Earth's forests in 3D

A new laser instrument developed for the International Space Station is expected to generate incredible 3D maps of Earth's forests.

October 21, 2015

Philae lander detects organic molecules in comet’s atmosphere

The Philae probe has detected organic molecules on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, according to scientists analyzing data from the lander.

October 21, 2015

Balloon ‘pods’ to bridge space tourism gap

High-performance balloon ‘pods’ aim to take tourists to the edge of space.  

October 21, 2015

Virgin Galactic spaceship's 'feathering' descent system eyed in deadly crash

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane broke apart just after its "feathering" re-entry system deployed early during a tragic test flight on Friday.

October 21, 2015

Orbital Sciences pieces together timeline of Antares rocket explosion

Private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corp. is starting to piece together the timeline of events leading up to the explosion of its Antares rocket just after liftoff on Tuesday evening (Oct. 28).

October 21, 2015

Secretive X-37B military space plane could land in California Tuesday

The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week —possibly as early as Tuesday — after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission.

October 21, 2015

How NASA crews could sleep for 6 months on the journey to Mars

Existing medical techniques are laying the foundations for an ambitious research project to send astronauts into a deep sleep on a six-month journey to Mars, according to the engineer leading the study.

October 21, 2015

The right (mental) stuff: NASA astronaut psychology revealed

WASHINGTON — So, you want to be an astronaut.