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MPTA-098 with Pathfinder and its previous companion MPTA-ET.
Huntsville, Alabama

MPTA-098

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Keweenaw Rocket Range.
Copper Harbor, Michigan

Keweenaw Rocket Range

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.
Tesla Roadster travels through space, on February 8, 2018.
space exploration

How to Find the Tesla Roadster in the Sky

NASA has listed the car as a celestial object.
Sarah Laskow February 9, 2018
Packing food for space travel can be a drain on space and fuel.
nasa

Human Waste Could Help Astronauts Grow Food in Space

Researchers enlisted microbes to create a model for a self-sustaining food web. But the finished meal looks like goo.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 29, 2018
John Young (left) and the corned beef sandwich he took into space (right).
space exploration

Remembering the Astronaut Who Smuggled a Sandwich Into Space

He got into a lot of trouble.
Anne Ewbank January 8, 2018
Expedition 50 flight engineer Peggy Whitson with a "space cheeseburger."
space exploration

When NASA Wasn't Sure if Astronauts Could Swallow in Space

Early space sustenance resembled baby food.
Paula Mejia January 3, 2018
Lanham, Maryland

NASA Goddard Rocket Garden

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
The Expedition 53 crew, clad in excellent matching shirts.
nasa

Watch Astronauts Make Pizza in Space

How do you toss the dough, though?
Paula Mejia December 4, 2017
Astronaut Scott Kelly inside the Cupola, a special module in the International Space Station that provides a 360-degree view of Earth.
space exploration

Exit Interview: Scott Kelly, an Astronaut Who Spent a Year in Space

It's very easy to lose things on the International Space Station.
David Plotz November 9, 2017
In 2012, the B612 Foundation took a trip to the bottom of the Barringer Crater in Arizona.
Mill Valley, California

B612 Foundation

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.
Langley researcher Elton W. Miller in Langley's Propeller Research Tunnel, 1927.
space exploration

100 Years of Rocketry and Research at NASA’s Langley Facility

See pioneering mathematicians, giant wind tunnels powered by submarine engines, and hypersonic rocket models.
Anika Burgess October 20, 2017
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science

A View of Saturn's Rings From the Inside, Courtesy of Cassini

The 20-year-old satellite is still sending back images during its swan dive into the planet's atmosphere.
Kelsey Kennedy September 5, 2017
From left to right: Edward Gibson, Gerald Carr, and William Pogue prepare to fly to Cape Canaveral to take off for Skylab.
space exploration

Did 3 NASA Astronauts Really Hold a 'Space Strike' in 1973?

Digging into a legendary moment in the history of extraterrestrial labor.
Cara Giaimo August 28, 2017
The Winganon Space Capsule
Talala, Oklahoma

Winganon Space Capsule

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.
STS-1, the Space Shuttle <em>Columbia</em>, launching on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
nasa

NASA Just Released Hundreds of Historic Space and Aviation Videos

Watch the first space shuttle take off and an experimental aircraft set a speed record.
Kelsey Kennedy July 20, 2017
A General Dynamics Lunar Excursion Module from a similar era.
nasa

Found: Designs for a Secret 1960s NASA Craft, Left on the Curb

They included designs for early drones and lunar modules.
Sarah Laskow June 15, 2017
A sounding rocket launches from the Wallops Flight Facility on May 16.
science

NASA Is Creating Glowing Clouds for Science

Rest assured, they will come (and go) in peace.
Kelsey Kennedy May 31, 2017
The Silver Snoopy pin.
objects of intrigue

NASA's Silver Snoopy Award, Explained

The cartoon beagle has been flying with the space agency since the 1960s.
Eric Grundhauser May 31, 2017