A FIFA World Cup soccer ball reaches space for astronauts to study

NASA shared a video showing astronauts kicking around an official World Cup soccer ball on the space station. Here's what was going on.
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Why use huge space telescopes for astronomy when you can blast an astronaut with a Nikon into space

An image shot on a handheld Nikon during the recent Artemis II lunar mission has revealed new insights into the evolution of ...
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Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots ensures astronauts can vote from space — or anywhere else

A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and working in space and ...
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Astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of LA

The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties ...

Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship three months after record-breaking flight

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year are back in Florida, reunited with their capsule and launch team.

Evacuation orders lifted for astronauts on International Space Station: NASA

Four astronaut received orders to shelter in place in their spacecraft in case the air leak warranted an emergency evacuation, NASA said.

Final NASA Space Shuttle crew reflects under Atlantis 15 years later

The final NASA Space Shuttle crew reunited under Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for the 15th anniversary of ...
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Astronauts assemble space birthday cake aboard the ISS

Expedition 74 crew members aboard the International Space Station marked NASA astronaut Jessica Meir's birthday by assembling ...

Artemis II crew member Jeremy Hansen says he’s stepping down from astronaut role

The Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, who captivated the world during the historic moon mission, said Monday he’d soon ...
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How 4 astronauts squeezed into a campervan-sized spacecraft to do science

Earlier this month, the Artemis II astronauts took the ultimate roadtrip: a flyby of the Moon, on which they brought the entire world along. A livestream of their seven-hour closeup journey showcased ...

From Everest to space: NASA’s PIO astronaut Anil Menon to travel to ISS on 8-month mission on Tuesday

Anil Menon, an Indian-American astronaut, begins his first space mission. He will spend eight months aboard the International ...

NASA once gave IQ just 1 point in its astronaut selection system because the agency believed even brilliant people could fail in space; Here's what actually helped candid…

NASA's 1966 astronaut selection valued practical skills and character over intelligence. Engineering expertise and ...