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Mission control

Space

Go at throttle up: The secret world of NASA’s mission control

A striking documentary movie, Mission Control: The unsung heroes of Apollo, shines a spotlight behind the scenes of NASA’s Apollo moon missions

Culture

astronauts

Space

Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions

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Space

Crew emerges from year-long simulated Mars mission

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tim peake smiling, and reclining in microgravity presumably on the ISS

Space

Tim Peake: Robots won’t replace me for 100 years

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An artist's impression showing a small robot with four legs and gecko-like feet crawling over the outside of a spacecraft, with the surface of Earth visible over the top of the page

Space

Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots

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Bacteria build bendy plastic that astronauts could use for tools

Life

Bacteria build bendy plastic that astronauts could use for tools

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Flying in a spaceplane is like a magic carpet ride

Space

Flying in a spaceplane is like a magic carpet ride

Opinion

Earth's historical wonders as seen from space

Space

Earth's historical wonders as seen from space

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60 Seconds

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Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

Space

Sleepy sun could make Mars trips deadly

An unexpected lull in the sun's activity will let more cosmic radiation into the solar system, endangering astronauts on long interplanetary missions

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Life

Low gravity makes astronauts prone to falling over

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Low gravity makes it hard to tell which way is up

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Space

Soviet dog spacesuit for pooches with the right stuff

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Sleep tight? Not a chance if you're in space

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