space
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Secretive Air Force Spaceplane Breaks Record With 719 Straight Days In Orbit
The U.S. Air Force’s Boeing X-37B spaceplane broke a record yesterday for the most amount of time in orbit around the Earth. But we still don’t know when the uncrewed plane is going to land or even what it’s doing up there. All of the details about the X-37B mission are classified.
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The New Ad Astra Trailer Amps Up Brad Pitt’s Space Angst
As Brad Pitt’s Major Roy McBride ventures into deep space in James Grey’s upcoming space thriller Ad Astra, the famed legacy astronaut’s mind is pushed to its limits both by the unknowable darkness he literally finds himself surrounded by and the metaphorical darkness about his father’s past actions that might have jeopardised all life in…
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Why Isn’t Australia In Deep Space?
Last week marked 50 years exactly since humans first walked on the Moon. It also marks Australia’s small but significant role in enabling NASA to place boots on the lunar landscape – or at least to broadcast the event.
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Hey, Check It Out: Butter Astronauts
This year’s Ohio State Fair in the U.S. has, par for the course, giant butter sculptures, but this year it has butter astronauts carved to celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.