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Category: New York Times Space & Cosmos
New York Times Space & Cosmos
NASA Is About to Conduct Its First All-Female Spacewalk
The American astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are set to venture outside the International Space…
Get Ready for NASA’s First All-Female Spacewalk
Two women on Earth, Jessica Bennet and Mary Robinette Kowal, had a chat about two women…
Virgin Galactic Unveils Jumpsuit for Space Tourists
The outfits, which would look at home on the bridge of the starship Enterprise, come with…
NASA’s New Spacesuits Unveiled, for Trips to the Moon and Beyond
The agency is racing to meet President Trump’s timeline for putting American astronauts on the lunar…
Aleksei Leonov, First Man to Walk in Space, Dies at 85
The Russian cosmonaut’s thrilling feat in 1965 nearly cost him his life, but raised Soviet prestige…
NASA and SpaceX Are Feuding. Will They Make Up?
The space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, will meet Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters on Thursday, weeks…
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Studies of Earth’s Place in the Universe
The cosmologist James Peebles split the prize with the astrophysicists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for…
First All-Female Spacewalk Is Back On, NASA Says
The mission was canceled in March after the agency said it did not have two properly…
An Astronaut Who Built Paths to Space for Other Women
Janet Kavandi, who recently retired from a senior NASA post, went to space three times and…