# space - Sunday 22 December, 2019
The two-day demo was originally due to last for over a week.
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# space - Saturday 21 December, 2019
It will initially have about 200 people and a first-year budget of $40 million.
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# space - Friday 20 December, 2019
It’s a huge moment for US spaceflight which is now dependant on private companies.
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# space - Wednesday 27 November, 2019
The black hole is twice as big as scientists believed possible.
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# space - Saturday 2 November, 2019
The space station is currently home to three Americans, two Russians and one Italian.
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# space - Tuesday 29 October, 2019
The brightest of the fireballs was at about 6.54 pm last night.
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# space - Friday 18 October, 2019
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
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# space - Friday 30 August, 2019
US military chiefs claim the move is necessary to defend the country’s ‘way of life’.
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# space - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
Fedor copies human movements and can help astronauts carry out tasks remotely.
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# space - Saturday 24 August, 2019
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
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# space - Monday 12 August, 2019
The Irish scrum-halves didn’t kick a single time during the win over Italy.
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# space - Sunday 21 July, 2019
The calling to travel beyond the Earth owes itself to mythology as well as science, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.
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# space - Friday 7 June, 2019
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
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# space - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
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# space - Thursday 11 April, 2019
Bouman has herself became an internet celebrity after yesterday’s picture.
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# space - Wednesday 10 April, 2019
“It’s like trying to photograph a golf ball on the Moon.”
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# space - Friday 22 February, 2019
Meanwhile, Israel began a mission to make its first Moon landing.
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# space - Thursday 14 February, 2019
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
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# space - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
The company is in the red, as it were.
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# space - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
The waves were discovered by Canadian scientists, who cannot explain their origin.
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# space - Thursday 3 January, 2019
China plans to send its Chang’e 5 probe to the moon next year.
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A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
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# space - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
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# space - Friday 28 December, 2018
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
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# space - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
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# space - Thursday 13 December, 2018
“This is a momentous day and I could not be more proud of our teams,” Richard Branson said.
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# space - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
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# space - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
A lovely sight this grim morning.
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# space - Sunday 21 October, 2018
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
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# space - Saturday 20 October, 2018
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
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# space - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
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# space - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
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# space - Friday 24 August, 2018
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
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# space - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
On 3 August the agency named the first nine astronauts who will fly to space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019.
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# space - Thursday 9 August, 2018
Nasa, by comparison, is an independent and civilian branch of government.
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# space - Friday 27 July, 2018
The lunar eclipse coincides with a close passing of Mars in tonight’s sky.
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# space - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
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# space - Saturday 14 July, 2018
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are racing to be the first to finish their tests.
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# space - Saturday 30 June, 2018
No injuries were reported in the spectacular explosion.
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# space - Sunday 13 May, 2018
Arralis CEO Barry Lunn is working towards the motoring industry’s ‘iPhone moment’.
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