In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space. Nearly three decades later, we learned that she had also been an LGBTQ trailblazer.
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Hundreds of students came together to design, build, and test rovers on an Earth obstacle course to prepare for the moon as part of a NASA challenge.
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This is one spectacular photograph.

Here’s everything you need to know about the forbidden city.

The two boosters hang out mid-air after separation.

China has named the three astronauts due to fly on the Shenzhou 23 mission on Sunday (May 24), including Hong Kong’s first astronaut.
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NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth.

The human heart shrivels away in space, but researchers have found that mini-hearts grown from human stem cells sprout in space significantly faster than in labs on Earth.
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When we build things on wonder, it naturally opens the mind.

This eerie image shows the heat shield following splashdown.