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The Boulder International Film Festival will host the premiere of the new documentary "Apollo 1" on March 15.

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Should Athena "stick" the landing, the recently-revealed pad prints (including the IM-2 mission patch and the names of all of the company's employees) will be embedded in the lunar regolith (or moon's top soil), hidden forever from view.

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Making its U.S. premiere after more than a year at 59 Studio's Lightroom in London, "The Moonwalkers" has been adapted to fill the walls and floor surrounding Space Center Houston's five-story-tall screen.

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The flags were among the contents of Charlie Duke's personal preference kit aboard the Apollo 16 lunar module "Orion."

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The contest, which was established by private astronaut John Shoffner, run by his Perseid Foundation and sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory, had entries from 35 countries.

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Carlos Villagomez, who befriended moonwalker Alan Shepard while cutting his hair, was gifted a signed golf ball. Shepard never said if the ball had been in his pocket while on the lunar surface, though Villagomez thinks it was. If indeed it flew, it could reveal a secret...

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The U.S. Space & Rocket Center played host to a different type of launch on Tuesday (Feb. 4), as Disney's Marvel Studios used the site to broadcast the countdown to its first trailer for "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," opening in theaters on July 25.

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The family of a late NASA engineer has consigned his space memorabilia collection to auction and in doing so, has revealed his propensity for designing mission patches.

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After four years sitting on a bookshelf on display, a moon rock has been removed from the Oval Office as part of the redecoration of the White House by the Trump administration.

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Buzz Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is to promote Verizon's satellite services. In an ad for the company's space-based coverage, Aldrin goes to "dead zones" to test "Can you text me now?"

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Joining the audience in Park City were Bear Ride, Sally's sister; astronaut Cady Coleman; and Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's life partner of 27 years.

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The 2025 inductee class for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame includes two record-setting spacewalkers.

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Nicole Stott is the latest astronaut to lend her autograph to the Space Hipsters Signature Edition series of "signed" patches.

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The $10.10 Priority Mail "Spiral Galaxy" and $31.40 Priority Mail Express "Star Cluster" stamps are sold in panes of four at post offices nationwide.

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What a great today at the Lone Star Flight Museum participating in a panel about the new book and documentary "The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball"!

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The United States Mint has provided a first look at the designs of two coins that will celebrate advancements in space exploration.

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Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, accomplished a successful first flight of its New Glenn rocket, lofting into Earth orbit a pathfinder for the Blue Ring space mobility platform.

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When the ride opened 50 years ago, an Apollo moonwalker was its first passenger, NASA's insignia was on display and Space Mountain was dedicated to opening the new frontier.

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It was the best of times... for fans of lunar exploration as two commercial spacecraft launched on separate paths to the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Mikael Genberg has been working to send a house to the moon for 25 years. Now it is set to happen.

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Spent some time this afternoon at Intuitive Machines learning about their next Nova-C moon lander, "Athena." On schedule to launch in late February, the IM-2 mission payloads include two rovers, a hopper, an ice drill and the first 4G/LTE cellular network demo on the moon.

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John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue Origin named its first orbital-class rocket after him, as he expressed in what was his last written correspondence before his death...

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NASA's efforts to explore Mars, including the first helicopter to achieve powered flight on another planet, made for the "Best Day Ever" aboard a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day 2025 (Jan. 1).

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Recently released documents from 1984 reveal how Ireland struggled to find homes for two moon rock displays gifted by the United States.

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Separated from its spacecraft for the past 55 years, the Kapton polyimide tape that once covered the Apollo 11 command module "Columbia" has since been added to numerous types of displays in commemoration of the first moon landing. This is the story of one such presentation...

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Your doorbell today may have the same computing power as was on the Apollo spacecraft, but can it fly you to the moon?

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will again feature deep space images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on its 2025 Priority Mail postage stamps.

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National Geographic will premiere director Cristina Costantini's new feature-length documentary about the first U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

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Space Center Houston will host the U.S. premiere of "The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks" when the immersive film begins daily shows in February 2025.

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The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has announced the early-2025 opening of The Gantry at LC-39, a returning stop to its bus tour of the NASA launch site in Florida.

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SpacePep's collects the nuts and bolts left over from Ariane 5 rockets and uses them to slice through European space history, literally.

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Haribo made its first appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but it is a return to space for the company's gummi candies, which have a history of flying as space food and astronaut playthings.

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Blue Origin's NS-28 mission lifted off and landed in West Texas on Friday (Nov. 23), sending six passengers aboard New Shepard on a suborbital flight. Among the crew members was Emily "The Space Gal" Calandrelli, who became the 100th woman to fly into space.

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NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is again inviting its guests to "Discover Something Real" with the debut of Michael Lopez-Alegria's Axiom Mission-1 (Ax-1) flight suit on Thursday (Nov. 21).

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SpaceX launched its sixth test flight of its Starship heavy-lift rocket Tuesday (Nov. 19), including its first physical payload: a toy banana.

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At the end of the Yellow Brick Road, somewhere over the rainbow, you will find... the moon.

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In the 1990s, Eileen Collins broke through the "glass ceiling to the stars" as NASA's first female astronaut to pilot and command the space shuttle. Now she is launching onto the silver screen....

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The moon, as sewn together by students and crafters in all 50 United States, will go on display at the Earth to Space festival at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington in 2025, and your lunar-themed square could be part of it!

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Space Center has opened its new Artemis Gateway exhibit featuring a walkthrough mockup of a lunar orbit habitat.

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Encased in the landmark is a time capsule not to be opened until 2464...

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A parking lot stood in for the moon on Thursday (Nov. 7), as a lunar rover took its first public drive.

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The upper stage components were dedicated at an Oct. 18 ceremony, which hailed the donation by United Launch Alliance and the Centaur's role in launching both U.S. military and civilian space missions.

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A large, spinning NASA logo outside of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex inspired the cake for this year's "Taste of Space" culinary evening on Saturday (Nov. 2).

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Swatch found the inspiration for its latest addition to its Omega collaboration in the photographs taken by the Apollo astronauts.

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Taikonauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze are on their way to spending six months on the Tiangong space station after launching on board China's Shenzhou-19 spacecraft on Tuesday (Oct. 29).

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Have you seen Capital One's ad about a school's Career Day? Did you see former shuttle and space station astronaut Karen Nyberg standing next to baseball star Derek Jeter?

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The watch, which can be seen in imagery from the mission, is one of only two moon-flown Rolexes to have been sold and commanded the most paid for an astronaut timepiece.

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After almost three weeks of weather waive offs atop an already extended mission, Crew-8 is back on Earth after 235 days in space.

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NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot to fly into space is now on public display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.

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Blue Origin's 27th New Shepard launch on Wednesday (Oct. 23) lofted 12 payloads, including a small stack of miniature monoliths modeled after the monuments in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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